They are Dewsbury firemen wearing asbestos heat reflecting suits on an endurance training session. Their instruments are probes to detect underground hydrants. It is one of 28 photos celebrating a year in the life of God’s own county at the end of the 1960s. 1969 is the year in question with photos from the Yorkshire Dales, Ripon, York, Sandal, Whitby, Batley, Scarborough and Bradford all featured. READ MORE: 17 photo memories take you around Yorkshire in 1966 YEP RETRO NEWSLETTER: Sign up for our free monthly email digest of nostalgia
19. Giggleswick
Lime quarrying firm P. W. Spencer Ltd. on the way to Buck House Brow and Clapham. Pictured in July 1969. | YPN Photo: YPN
20. Knottingley
February 1969 and Knottingley's new£48,000 fire station in Hazel Road was opened by County Alderman J. E. Payne. Pictured outside the new fire station are, from left, divisional officer H. Davenport, station officer J. A. Stevenson as well as firefighters B. Farmer, A. Troughton, R. Johnson, J. E. Baxter, B. Moncaster and leading firefighter J. W. Whitehead. | YPN Photo: YPN
21. Pontefract
"All Sorts" thousands of them, part of a 75,000lbs order for Canada, and with them Mrs. Vaus, quality controller at the factory in February 1969. | YPN Photo: YPN
