MR AND MRS E Red-man, of Strawberry Fields, have supplied this group of pupils from Eastwood council school standing outside Keighley railway station preparatory to an outing to York in 1939.

It is impossible to ignore the LMS advertisement for half-day trips to Morecambe for 4s 2d.

York was a fairly modest destination in 1939. That May High-field council school had a trip to Whip-snade Zoo, leaving Keighley at 6.50am and returning after midnight.

The national school left for London at 2.10am, and had a full-day which included an Ascension Day service at St Martin's-in-the-Fields and a conducted tour of the Houses of Parliament with Keighley's MP, H B Lees-Smith.

Meanwhile, St Anne's school trip went to Liverpool, which the pupils toured by overhead railway. They also inspected a large liner, crossed the Mersey to New Brighton and naturally visited the Roman Catholic cathedral.