Continuing the tradition.

We  have just been to see our younger granddaughter performing in the chorus in the pantomime Dick McWhittington at His Majesty's Theatre in Aberdeen.

Sadly photographs were forbidden but luckily I have something similar to show you. This young group appeared in the 1948 production of Dick Whittington put on by the scholars of Honley Congregational Sunday School; that's me, seated front right.

The "extra", from the Huddersfield Examiner shows me helping the dame to put on her lipstick.  I have blipped this photograph on a previous occasion and, as I said then, they certainly knew how to toughen up a young tyke in post-war Yorkshire. Dress him up in girly silks and a daft hat, get him to paint the lips of a bloke dressed in a dress, with a hairnet and socks stuffed in his bra, photograph the whole sorry event and then publish it in the local newspaper. After that he'll be ready to face owt that might come his way, however traumatic!