Does anyone recognise these members of Cleckheaton’s Whitechapel Church choir in this photograph taken 85 years ago?

Ewart Rymer, 92, who joined the choir a year later in 1926 and sang a solo in the church on his 90th birthday, has named most of the 30 people, including the vicar the Reverend T D Hyde, seen in the back row.

They are, back row: John Stead, Frank Morton, Percy Holdsworth, Thornton Wood, Tom Ellison, Henry Hardill, T D Hyde, Walter Collins, Ellis Thornton, Henry Walker and Harold Wilson.

Middle row: Albert Wood, Donald Tailford, Walter Kelsall, Eric Boyes and a boy called Swallow whose first name is not known.

Front row: Harry Wood, Arthur Walker, Tom Cooper and Bob Hardill.

Ten others – four in the back row, one in the middle row and five on the bottom row – Mr Rymer was not able to identify.

Naming the names is part of a promotional drive for a Celebrating Choirs weekend at the church on August 20 and 21.

This includes Saturday afternoon organ recitals and a concert by the BBA Choir starting at 7pm, followed on the Sunday by a 2.30pm Songs of Praise and afternoon tea.

The Reverend Rachel Cave said: “Anglican churches have a long musical tradition which we want to celebrate. We hope that former Whitechapel choir boys and girls will wish to come and sing once again in Cleckheaton’s oldest place of worship.”

Philip Hardill, church warden and treasurer, has two generations of his family in the photograph. His grandfather Henry Hardill is seventh from the left on the back row; his father Bob is the last on the right on the third row. His uncle Ellis Thornton is tenth from the left on the back.

At the end of the back row is a man named Harold Wilson, not the late Labour Prime Minister, but Mr Hardhill added: “Harold Wilson the Prime Minister was kind enough to present me with my degree in mechanical engineering at Bradford University in 1965.”

Whitechapel Church has been the site of religious worship for 900 years. The present building dates back to 1821. Since 1980, more than £270,000 was spent on restoring the roof, the tower and the bell tower, with a little financial help from English Heritage.

Mr Hardill explained that the history of the BBA choir goes back to the days when the firm BBA manufactured conveyer belts and other materials on the site at Moorend Lane. Today, the firm is called BBA Aviation.

The Reverend Cave said other choir members will be welcome to sing at the church during the Celebrating Choirs weekend.

The welcome also extends to anyone who has had an association with the church in the past.