‘BEAUTY and the Beast’ was the pantomime in Carleton in 1935 - and it was written by Marjorie Taylor, the mother of Rosamund Mitchell who submitted the photograph.

Mrs Mitchell, of Grange Farm, Oakworth, tells us that her mum’s sister and mother made the costumes and her own dad Leonard Taylor made all the scenery.

Mrs Mitchell said: “Mum was only 24 when she wrote this and she had never seen a pantomime, so didn’t have a dance because she didn’t know about them! Of all the young people on the photo the only one I’m sure is still alive is Jean Archer, now Jean Baron. She is the black-clad ‘elf’ on the king’s right, at her feet.” Mrs Mitchell adds that her mum took part in the Carleton Village Group’s panto revival at the start of this century, at the age 0f 90 - “She looked a real’ ‘chip’ in a pink lurex mini going to Cinderella’s ball!”

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