Bradford people have been raiding their archives to unearth photographs of the famous Nazi airship the Hindenburg.

They were responding to a request in the Telegraph & Argus on Monday by historian Oliver Denton for information about the airship's flight over Keighley and the Aire Valley in June 1936. Mr Denton, 20, is seeking the information for an exhibition he is staging in Skipton.

Our story stirred the memory of 90-year-old Bob Oddy, pictured, of Norwood near Wyke, who as a young man photographed the huge aircraft as it lumbered over Keighley.

And 76-year-old Walter Haw-ley, of Wycliffe Gardens, Shipley, recalls it droning overhead in Saltaire as he returned to St Walburga's school after lunch as a ten-year-old.

The Hindenburg became world- famous when it was captured on news film bursting into a fireball on coming to land in New Jersey in the USA in 1937.

But the year before it had diverted over Keighley en route to the USA, allowing a German priest to drop a crucifix to be placed on the grave of his brother who had died at East Morton as a First World War prisoner.

Mr Oddy was 24 and living in Elm Crescent, East Morton, at the time. He dashed out to take a picture with his Kodak camera as the aircraft flew over nearby Keighley.

"It came nearer and nearer and I kept taking pictures," he said. "It was a fantastic sight.

"The big diesel engines made a really loud rumbling noise."

He says it got so low he could have hit it with a stone, but was unable to get a close-up because he ran out of film.

The sight of the Hindenburg sparked a lifelong fascination for airships in Walter Hawley, who even wrote a history of the aircraft for an exhibition.

"I have never forgotten it - it was a wonderful sight. I could see the red fin with the black swastika sign," said Mr Hawley, who was living in Albert Street, Saltaire, with his parents.

He was distressed to learn of the Hindenburg disaster the following year and recalls the terrible news reel.

Mr Denton, of Long Preston near Skipton, said: "It's great that people have come forward. I'd like to speak to them for the exhibition and my book."

He is writing a history of the aircraft called Hindenburg, the Adventure over Yorkshire.