These children and parents from the Hainworth Road district of Woodhouse are grouped round their roadside stall in aid of the Spitfire-Hurricane Fund on the last Saturday in September, 1940.

Main organisers were young Annie and Amelia Armstrong, Annie Isherwood, Barbara Sunderland and Stewart Collett, who gathered items to sell.

Their enterprise raised £6.l0s, nearly a third of which came from "an autographed cover, which bore the names, worked in silk, of those who had paid 3d each for the privilege".

Keighley's total contribution to the national Spitfire-Hurricane Fund - replacing aircraft losses in the Battle of Britain - amounted to £11,600, which paid for both a Spitfire and a Hurricane and left something over for the RAF Benevolent Fund.

Dean, Smith and Grace Ltd also financed their own Spitfire.

Children's stalls like this were a popular way of raising money, though enthusiasm sometimes outweighed takings.

At Riddlesden a barrel-organ and a mile of pennies netted £11.11s.7d, whilst another £l.13s.4d. was from a Keighley patient in the Middleton Sanatorium, who painstakingly made a mat.

One Keighley novelty was a series of large drawings of aeroplanes - 15 feet by 10 feet - placed round the Town Hall Square, the outlines of which the public were invited to fill in with coins

The photograph was supplied by Mrs E Smith, of Queens Grove, Ingrow.