Will Knott, steward of the Steeton Sailors' and Soldiers' Club, points proudly at the lettering on his window about 1919.

On the left stands Tom Hodgson, a former drayman for Aaron King's brewery in Keighley.

Furthering the interests of Great War ex-servicemen, this Steeton branch of the Demobilised and Discharged Sailors' and Soldiers' Association had been initiated that May, when the notable photographer Alex Keighley of Steeton High Hall had donated £10 to get it started.

He also presented its secretary, Edward Dodson, with 'a handsome oak-framed photograph of himself and wife on the occasion of his recent marriage' early in 1920, by which time the club was organising dances and concerts.

The photograph was supplied by Mr Robin Longbottom, of Providence Lane, Oakworth, who writes that the original club, long demolished, 'occupied the two middle cottages of a row known as Cowling Row'.

Its present premises are at the bottom of Barrows Lane. Tom Hodgson's grandson Ralph, now aged 87, recalls 'being let into the old Club at 16 years old but only being allowed beer in half-pints.'