Keighley historian Clifford Whone stands third from the left in this group of staff at Holycroft Senior Council School in 1939.
Others on the back row are, from left, Mr Harrison, Clifford Dibb and C H Smith, with (front) Miss Molineaux, Miss E Butterfield, headmaster William E Walton, Miss K Petty and Miss Bracewell.
Clifford Whone taught history at Holycroft from 1922 to 1952. A one act play he wrote for his pupils – The Eve of Flodden – won a national prize and was published in 1937. Another, based on John Wesley’s visit to Keighley, was performed in 1934 by the St Barnabas’ Dramatic Society, of Thwaites Brow.
He was closely associated with the Workers’ Educational Association and the Bradford Historical and Antiquarian Society, on whose behalf he edited the Haworth Manor Rolls for publication in 1946. He died in 1963, aged 71.
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