Many thanks for your responses to my request for information about the 1940s photograph (above) of a crowd of people near a big hut on what looked like a bank holiday.

Alan Whitrick reckons it was taken at the bottom of Shipley Glen Tramway, probably at Easter judging by the thick coats being worn.

He writes: "The hut in the background was an ex-army hut that came from Ripon in the early 1920s. It belonged to someone called Hartley. It was used as a shop and cafe, and was demolished in the 1950s. The tramway was very well used during the war. The record was 17,000 people carried in one day."

Mr R Holmes agrees with the location. He adds: "Clues are the telegraph pole and the corrugated shack which sold, among other things, plastic windmills, rock, cups of stewed tea and tiny bottles of pop at 3d (penny for the bottle back). Tram fares were something like 2d up and 1d down."

  • A recent piece about Bradford Cathedral brought back a memory for Mrs Margery McDonald, of Shipley. She writes: "My late brother and I often used to accompany the late Mr George Titterington, an ardent church attender, sidesman and bell ringer, up the tower. He went daily to wind up the clock and often pointed out buildings on the skyline. Being young we did not appreciate this, but I do often think back to those times."