One of Yorkshire's lost brews, Whitaker's Cock o' the North Ales from Halifax, puts on an immaculate display at a Keighley Show, probably in the 1960s. This dray and its admirers are in the Beeches corner of Victoria Park, which has since been chopped off.

The then-spacious grounds of Eastwood House had come on the market in 1889, to be determinedly acquired by public subscription and opened as Victoria Park in 1893. Those who contributed, great and small, could scarcely have dreamed that in less than a century roads would have become more important than parks.

The Keighley Agricultural Show owes its origins to John Greenwood Sugden, son of William Sugden of Eastwood House and Fleece Mill but gentleman-farmer by inclination, who in 1842 offered, as "an inducement to the operative to save the money which he otherwise might spend in the beerhouse", a prize for the best pig bred by a workman in his employment. From this, the following year, grew the first Keighley Agricultural Show.

Pig-breeding, incidentally, was a popular working-class hobby of the period - the Large White Yorkshire was perfected by Joseph Tuley, an Exley Head weaver.

The photograph was supplied by Michael Shearing, of High Spring Gardens Lane, Keighley.