Mr Derek Newies, of Highfield Road, Keighley, has supplied this class from Eastwood Junior School.

He recalls the occasion as a distribution of apples from Canada in 1948, and by a prodigious feat of memory can name every child except the girl half-hidden behind the one holding two apples between the boxes.

These children are none too neatly arranged, but taking them in approx-imate rows they are as follows:

Back row, left to right: David Brett, Michael Nicholson, Molly Cockcroft, Stuart Maude, Walter Nixon, Eric Redman, Colin Murray, Donald Beck, Joan Mitchell, Vera Wellman, Margaret Johnson.

Second row down: Derek Newiss, Peter Clarke, Jean Scott, Elaine Seed, Molly McGee, Geoffrey Stubbs, David Hazell, Eric Shackleton, Celia Thornton, Iris Emmott, Jean Pennington, Anne Crowther.

Third row down: Geoffrey Bray, Graham Dawson, Molly Angus, Jennifer Tetley, Anthony Durham, Barry Driver, Tony Barker, Sylvia King, Rita Robinson, Muriel Wright. At the front are Eric Wright, Kenneth Turner, Alan Nixon, Pamela Wordley, Gavin Hogg, Kenneth Longbottom and Dudley Thompson,

At that time, postwar Britain was still pinched and rationed, and our Dominions kept sending treats. At the end of September in 1947 some 600 food items arrived in Keighley from Australia, whilst the Sons of England Benefit Society of Canada sent flour, salmon, fruit cake, chocolate and tinned goods to be shared among elderly Keighley residents.