The tradition of crowning a May Queen was observed for many years in a number of local schools, none more enthusiastically than in the infants' department of Keighley National School at the bottom of West Lane.

This constituted an annual social occasion to which parents and friends were invited, and included songs and maypole dances, sometimes with children dressed as nursery-rhyme characters.

Here are the participants in the 1921 ceremony. The photograph was supplied by David Balmer, of Jennings Close, Silsden, who can name all except the girl standing on the right.

That year's May Queen, standing in the centre with flowers, was Annie Balmer. Her attendant on the left was Nellie Lister, and the two kneeling girls were twins, Emily and Nellie Chadwick.

The boys forming the guard of honour were, from left, Alfred Frobisher, Frank Watkinson, Franklin Watkinson and

Jack Riley.