Games played at a Keighley school have fuelled the pen of a local writer.

Mavis Curtis, of Oakworth, was so fascinated by Ingrow Primary School's playground games when she researched the subject in the early 1990s that she decided to devote a book to them.

Mavis, who has previously co-edited an academic book called Play Today in the Primary School Playground, is financing her work with a £2000 millennium lottery award.

And £250 of the grant goes to the school for new play facilities.

Her book will look at playground games in the school from 1900 to the present day.

She says: "I've talked to two people in their 90s. The oldest woman was a part-timer who went to school in the mornings and worked in the mill in the afternoon."

Mavis has discovered one of today's singing games is merely an updated version of one from 150 years ago.

"It's called 'Kayli Bubbly Gum'. It's a singing game from the mid-19th century originally called 'There Came a Duke a-Calling.' It's very close to that. Just the chorus has changed."

This song disappeared for a while before re-emerging in the 1980s.

Mavis is keen to pick up other gems of Ingrow's playground past but is short of subjects from the 1970s onwards.

She would like to hear stories from anyone at Ingrow Primary from that period.

They should contact her on 01535 644587.