It was black Sunday for nearly 1,000 homes in the Pool Bank, Bramhope, Arthington and Pool area, where an electric cable fault caused a breakdown in supply that in some cases lasted more than 24 hours. The breakdown notified itself in many homes shortly after midnight by ringing all the telephone bells. The Dyneley Arms opened but with none of its usual lighting; customers were served by the light of candles and lamps. The electric milking machines at Home Farm went out of action and the cows were milked by hand.

The foundation stone of the first new school to be built in Otley for 16 years was laid. Estimated to cost £50,000, the school is on Weston Lane and planned to accommodate 320 children between seven and 11 years of age having nine classrooms all facing due south. The problem facing the County Education authority was that the increased birthrate in 1945 meant there were 65,000 extra children now ready to enter schools and it was estimated that by the end of 1953 this number would have grown to 100,000. To cope with this problem an ingenious device had been planned, known as a moveable schoolroom which was a prefabricated building that could be erected in a matter of six to eight weeks.

An Otley tradesman of Chevin Stores, Boroughgate was putting goods outside his shop recently when he was chased into his shop by a three-ton lorry, laden with sand. The proprietor said he was just putting down a basket of potatoes when out of his eye corner he saw a lorry skidding across the road. He nipped smartly back into his shop but the lorry came into the doorway behind him. The lorry, owned by Farnley Sand and Gravel came to a stop with the bonnet in the doorway.