THE date was May 19, 1943 and Her Royal Highness, the Princess Royal was visiting Keighley's fund-raising Wings for Victory Week, ceremonially marking a Town Hall Square

indicator at the £897,520 already contributed by midweek. By the end of the week the total would be an impressive £1,453,147.

She also visited the Technical College, the WVS HQ and Hospital Supplies depot, and the Woodbine day nursery in Skipton Road.

Here the Princess stands on the right of matron Miss Empey and Mayoress Mrs Tom Snowden in the garden of the Woodbine day nursery, where 47 children were having tea, wearing sun bonnets made specially for the occasion by the staff.

Two little girls, Molly Kelly and Joyce Aker-oyd, presented her with a bouquet of sweet peas.

The photo was supplied by Kate Nicolls, of West Fell Road, Keighley, whose daughter Jean is the child on the far right facing the camera.

She recalls that the Woodbine day nursery catered for mothers on war work and cost five shillings a week per child.