A RIDDLESDEN man who took wedding photographs for hundreds of Keighley couples has died at the age of 83.

Bob Knights was a semi-professional photographer in the 1960s and 1970s while working full-time as a sales rep across the Yorkshire region.

He was known for creating imaginative photographic Christmas cards for friends and customers that superimposed his family on objects like flying saucers, the Royal Family or Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.

Mr Knights was born in Keighley in 1932, son of a shoe shop owner, and he grew up in Shipley and Keighley, where he trained as an architect.

He met his future wife Joan Heaton as a young teenager when they were paired up by his dance-champion parents for the regular ballroom dances at the former Temperance Hall and Britannia Hall.

The couple married after Mr Knights finished National Service with the RAF, bringing up children David and Susan at Scott Lane West in Riddlesden.

Mr Knights was a keen photographer, plane spotter and rambler until affected by increasing ill-health.

Following a heart attack before Christmas Mr Knights had been living at the Currergate nursing home in Steeton.

Mr Knights is survived by his wife, children, and three grandchildren.