Published in the Keighley News on 2nd November 2000, the caption reads:

"This unidentified lady in her chauffeur-driver automobile epitomises an age when motoring was an elegant privilege. She was photographed outside one of Yorkshire's latter-day country houses, Sutton Hall.

Described in its heyday as 'one of the most palatial residences in Craven', Sutton Hall was built in the 1890s for John William Hartley, the reclusive bachelor owner of Greenroyd Mills. At the time of his death in 1909, he was said to own 'practically all the houses in Sutton, and also the larger part of the farms on the hillside hear the village'.

But his magnificent residence, which was never completely furnished, was destined for a relatively short life. In 1934 Keighley building contractor Ernest Turner was proposing to divide it into flats. He gave 6½ acres of adjoining woodland to Sutton Parish Council, but the rest of the estate was developed into what he called 'a kind of garden city - the first and the finest in this neighbourhood', a project which involved the demolition of Sutton Hall itself a few years later.

The photograph was supplied by Mr Graham Hall of Micklethwaite."