Dozens of famous figures will descend on the town centre again next week (July 13) during Keighley Festival.

And more than a thousand local schoolchildren will go along to meet them at Keighley Arts Factory.

In attendance at the art gallery will be Charlotte Brontë, Charles Darwin, Elvis Presley, Henry VIII and Queen Nefertiti.

They'll be joined by Robin Hood, Harry Potter, Sherlock Holmes, Thomas the Tank Engine and the Daleks.

The figures, both real-life and fictional, have all been been made by pupils of local schools.

They will be brought together for the festival's annual Madame Two-Swords waxwork exhibition.

The exhibition is just one of several events to come as the festival enters its second and final week.

Also on the programme is a beer festival, schools concert, sports tournaments, Walk of Friendship and Race the Train.

Madame Two-Swords of this year adopted the theme Time and Time Again, and looks at the history of mankind.

Tableaux will feature the Dawn of Man, and biblical, medieval, Victorian, modern and future times.

Exhibits also include a woolly mammoth, Stone Age people, Jonah and the whale, St George and Noah's ark. There will be a family of street urchins, along with Henry Isaac Butterfield, the original owner of Cliffe Castle.

The exhibition is the result of a challenge issued to schools and children's activity groups by festival co-ordinator Malcolm Hanson.

Mr Hanson said: "We did something similar last year and it was mind-blowing then.

"This year we've decided to really go for it, putting on an exhibition that all Keighley children and their parents can be proud of.

"The schools have been magnificent. We have had hundreds of children from tots to teens quietly building life-size figures since early April."

As well as the main exhibition there will be a repeat of last year's popular Chamber of Little Horrors, with ghosts, mummies and creepy-crawlies.

The public visit Madame Two-Swords at Keighley Arts Factory from July 13-17, in the North Street building of Park Lane College Keighley.

Open daily 10am-4pm. More details from Mr Hanson on 01756 709275.