Lightly coloured over a photograph, this rather unexciting postcard conveys an impression of what a gracious thoroughfare Skipton Road was when still devoid of both parked and moving cars.
This approach to the town centre was admired by Princess Mary -- Viscountess Lascelles, who was later to become the Princess Royal -- when she came to officially open a new electro-medical block at Keighley Victoria Hospital in 1926.
The postcard was sent on a "very wild" October day in 1905 by someone called Pattie to a Miss Wilkinson, care of the Post Office at Flixton, Manchester.
"Don't you think this good?" wrote Pattie. "You can just see the top of Drake Street."
The photograph was supplied by Mr Graham Hall, of Micklethwaite.
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