Staff of the Woodbine Day Nursery take their charges for a walk along Skipton Road about 1943.
Situated nearly opposite the entrance to Cliffe Castle, this catered for the children of mothers on war work, and cost five shillings a week per child.
The photograph was supplied by Mrs Kate Nicholls, of West Fell Road, Keighley, whose daughter Jean is the little girl on the far right holding on to the four-seater pram.
Notice the white bands painted round the tree to make it more visible in the black-out.
The Woodbine Day Nursery was one of many Keighley responses to wartime conditions and dangers.
Others included a mortuary in Airedale Mills, a bus converted into a 'mobile unit for clearing casualties during air-raids', and a first-aid post for animals in Alice Street.
In the event of raids, vets were also expected to protect the public from 'panic-stricken or gas-contaminated animals.'
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