Five-year-old's Santa adventure sparks police search | Bradford Telegraph and Argus
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...
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