A LARGE crowd gathered to see a ceremony which marked the beginning of Yeadon Temperance Hall in 1904.

Aireborough Historical Society curator Carlo Harrison said: “The man with the spade cutting the first sod of grass was Samuel Battye, an engineer at Moorfield Mill.

“To his right, wearing a bowler hat is John Driver, a local preacher and shopkeeper who had a footwear business in Ivegate.

Further to the right wearing a trilby hat is William Flesher, a local builder and quarry owner who was given the contract to erect the hall.

The property at the bottom of the Steep/Sandy Way area is in the background with the Robin Hood public house located on the right.

The wide-eyed youngsters in the second photograph were pictured on a visit to the post office in 1996. The children, all aged four and all pupils at Ashlands School are (left to right) Alexander Snowdon, Rebekah Grosset and Daniel Sullivan. They are pictured with Nick Lightband from the post office.

l FIRST World War sentences by Richard Thackrah: Cricket match in Ilkley. The Ladies scored 82 and the Front thanking the people at Ilkley Auxiliary Military hospital for looking after him.

William Ellum has three sons: James, Richard and George, now in training at Welbeck Abbey, Worksop, prior to going to the Front.

Sgt Spencer, Royal Army Veterinary Corps, serving in Egypt, met up in Cairo with David Morton , the son of an Ilkley coal merchant.