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
7. Barmston
January 1969 and a lamp post is inches from the cliff edge, and part of a garden path is suspended in the air after coast erosion caused by heavy seas. | YPN Photo: YPN
8. Skipton
Firemen and council workmen build a wall of sandbags as floodwater creeps towards shops and houses in March 1969. | YPN Photo: YPN
10. York
The team of York Corporation stonemasons whose main task in October 1969 was to preserve the city's bar walls and gateways. Pictured, front from left, are Walter Slater, Peter Green, Neville Coobs, and Lawrence Martin. Back, from left, are Jim Hearld and Alan Curtis. | YPN Photo: YPN
12. Todmorden
Looking up the main shopping centre in October 1969 - the spire of the Unitarian Church in the distance. | YPN Photo: YPN