This newspaper clipping is from an edition of Sunday Illustrated, published on the 3rd of September 1922. The headline and caption reads: “Children strike to retain teacher: Some of the 240 girls of Eastwood Council School, Keighley, Yorkshire, who are on strike against the dismissal of Mrs Belfield, their headmistress. Mrs Belfield was discharged because she is a married woman.”
Sunday Illustrated was a short-lived national newspaper that ran from July 1921 to November 1923. As the name implies, its content relied heavily on photographs over text.
Cutting from a scrapbook of clippings kept by George Crowther of photographs he took and articles he wrote for various publications. Crowther (d: 1960) spent 50 years with the Bradford and District Newspaper Company until his retirement in 1956. He started out as a press photographer in the 1920s and ended with six years as editor of the Keighley News (1950-1956). He was active in the St. John Ambulance Brigade and served on the Council of the Bronte Society.
