These Keighley children were celebrating the end of the First World War, which was officially observed not at the Armistice of November, 1918, but after the Peace Treaty in July, 1919.

Some are wearing the peace medals which were presented to Keighley schoolchildren.

Scholars sang what were then unashamedly called "national and patriotic songs" before playing games in local parks and fields, which were hard- pressed to cope with so much simultaneous revelry. Hence, whilst Holycroft Council School used Lund Park and Eastwood School Victoria Park, Worth Council School, for example, had to utilise a field at Aireworth "lent by Miss Laycock".

The Parish Church bells pealed, the Keighley Borough Band played in the Town Hall Square and the Salvation Army Band in Devonshire Park, and there were processions, walking matches and a gymnastic display. At night rockets went up from the parks, and "Dover flares" from Robin Hood Stone, Black Hill and the top of Glen Lee.

This much-handled but atmospheric photograph was supplied by Mrs Mary McLelland, of Farish House, who thinks it was taken in Wren Street.