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AS we head into winter, local friendly society, Bradford Oddfellows is urging people to keep meeting up with friends, despite the ongoing…
ON the morning of Sunday, October 30, 1858, two young boys were lying dead on the floor of their home in Bradford. Close by, their parents were…
MARTIN Greenwood’s new book Every Day Bradford provides a memorable story for each day in the year about people, places and events taken from the…
FLOODING caused chaos across parts of the Bradford district today as Storm Christoph continued to wreak havoc with heavy rain. Flood warnings were in place in Shipley, Saltaire, Bingley and Cottingley as the River Aire was particularly affected. Fire crews were called out to Castlefields in Bingley to pump flood water into the river as the heavy rain continued throughout the day. Bradford and Bingley Rugby Club fell victim to flooding, which was earlier identified as the area most at risk in the district. Fire crews pump water out at Castlefields The club's pitch and surrounding ar...
ALL Keith Walker wanted was to see Father Christmas at Busbys so, aged just five, he took himself off and caught a bus to the department store. By the time he’d walked all the way home to Baildon, his frantic parents had joined a police search for him. “I didn’t know I was a missing child - I just wanted to see Santa,” smiled Keith, who remembers his adventure in December, 1953 “as if it was yesterday.” Despite being a five-year-old on his own, Keith managed to catch a bus from Baildon Bridge to Busbys on Manningham Lane, where he queued up to see Santa. Afterwards he walked...