AN EVOCATIVE and ghostly photograph from more than half a century ago was viewed by thousands of people from around the globe when it was placed on a society's facebook page.

The 1960s view of Guiseley was opened and read by 3,684 people in the first six hours after it was placed on Aireborough Historical Society's page. Within a day that figure had risen to more than 7,000.

Society archivist Carlo Harrison said: "The scene is Towngate, Guiseley in 1962, a very evocative night-time view after a snowfall with the tower of St Oswald's Church and trees silhouetted against the sky and streetlights reflecting on the snow.

"In itself this is a wonderful photo with lots to look at and sets the mood perfectly for those winter nights, however, the two ghosts on the right hand edge have added a little extra interest to the scene."

He added: "A lot of people who have left Guiseley for places in the UK and abroad have been fascinated by the photo and it has brought back memories of younger days."

Several decades later some very strange figures were photographed at Ilkley carnival, when children from All Saints school took part as the Family Ness.

First World War sentences by Richard Thackrah:

Visitors at the Craiglands Hotel entertain wounded soldiers from Ilkley Auxiliary Military Hospital.

Library to be created for use by Belgians in Ilkley.

Private JW Smith Ilkley man writes about his experiences in Gallipoli."He was hit by three bullets while getting water.The Turks employ women for sniping and one woman captured, had thirty identity discs from British soldiers she had killed."

Leeds University and war work. Some Ilkley students unostentatiously doing war work eg: in Department of Agriculture, training women to be war farmers; while in the chemical laboratories new methods being created for the manufacture of drugs including local anaesthetics as well as antiseptics.