This postcard of 1937 had no doubts as to the preferred location of Keighley's suddenly controversial drinking-fountain, making it the centre- piece of this view of Devonshire Park. The postcard itself, incidentally, was sent to Montrose, in Scotland, expressing thanks for a "box of fish"!

The reason for the fountain's original position in Church Green has long been superseded, for it replaced the stocks.

The "Keighley Visitor", the monthly magazine of the mid-Victorian Temperance Society, chronicled the punishment of drunkards and gamblers: "Ellis Hartley, of Haworth, fined 5s and costs for being drunk, or to sit six hours in the stocks" ... "Joseph Spence, alias 'Boxer', was placed in the stocks, in Church Green, for gambling, in a lane near Exley Head".

By 1864, however, the Keighley Temperance Committee was requesting permission to replace the stocks with a drinking-fountain, "which would no doubt be of greater service to the public than the stocks". Miss Butterfield, of Cliffe Hall, obliged in 1869.

The photograph was supplied by Mrs M Carter, of Fell Lane, Keighley.