Helen Waters (nee Gill) who loaned the photograph recalled the group used to go round to other chapels locally to perform.

The group were all aged between 16 and 20 and were all too young to be called up to serve.

Helen is not on the photograph, taken in 1939, as she was working away in Biddleston at the time as a teacher. But the picture was taken in her mother's garden at the top of Smithies Lane.

The adult leader of the group was Leonard Hill, the pianist and organist from Temperance Hall. He was later called up into the Royal Artillery.

Mr Hill, who conducted the young singers, is on the middle row at the left-hand-side.

The other adult helpers were pianist Hilda Waters (back row, fifth from left) and Mr Oates (middle row, right), whose daughter and two sons were in the group and are on the photograph. Roy Oates is on the back row, second from the left.

Other names Helen recalled were Ronnie Sykes, back row, third from the left, and Fred Wood, back row, third from the right and a brother and sister called Akeroyd – the girl was on the back row, second from the right, and her brother was on the front row in the middle.