The occupants of this charabanc at Lille in 1920 were from Prospect Mills at Ingrow where, during that Keighley Parish Feast, worsted spinners Messrs Hey and Co treated their employees to a nine-day tour of the Great War battlefields in Belgium and France.
They sailed from Newhaven to Dieppe and went sightseeing in Paris and Versailles before an itinerary which included such evocative names as Albert, Bapaume, Arras, Neuve Chapelle and Ypres.
Herbert Hey also presented each man with spending-money.
"Heroic exploits were recalled by the sight of dug-outs, saps, listening-posts, shell-holes, and other relics of the war," reported the 'Keighley News' at the time, "while the cemeteries with their hundreds of white crosses remained
to the memory of those who fell."
At Lille the party was appropriately
interested in large textile mills damaged during the war.
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