These employees of the West Lane Burling and Mending Company at Haworth have obviously used their Christmas trimmings to decorate their workplace in celebration of the Royal Jubilee of King George V in 1935.

Haworth itself held an open-air service and put on a pageant of tableaux illustrating events and personalities of the rein.

Although the camera has been angled to show the decorations to best effect, the photograph conveys the light atmosphere of a burling and mending department. Working there could be comradely. In 1912 a mender called Ada sent a postcard to an absent colleague from a similar workplace in Silsden.

"Dear Myra," she wrote. "It is now Thursday morning just after breakfast. I am writing this card while Bella has her back turned, by gum if she looks round I am still mending Waltons pieces. Frank has just come up the yard and he laughed. The burlers are just singing somewhere the sun is shining."

The photograph was supplied by Mr and Mrs C S Rushworth, of St John's Way, Keighley.