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The pub with beer...and an extra spirit
8:45am Thursday 20th November 2008
How Charlie the ghost made sure things went bump at the bar
Quiet man with a demanding job to do
8:52am Thursday 20th November 2008
My parents and younger brothers and sister lived on Richmond Road during the 1920s. My dad, a regular at The Peel, told me that Pierrepoint the hangman used to call in every once in a while to have a pint with two guys. It was thought he lived in Clayton and would get off the bus on the way to town.
Message from dad
8:43am Thursday 20th November 2008
My first memory of the New Vic was as a five-year-old during the Second World War.
Not so wide of mark...
8:54am Thursday 20th November 2008
From memory I think Derek Mozley is correct that the trolleybus depot at Bolton Junction was demolished to make way for a car parking area at the new Morrisons (Remember When? November 8), but I can’t remember when that was.
Recalling the train to work
8:54am Thursday 20th November 2008
The aerial photograph of Laisterdyke taken by CH Wood in 1954 takes me back to 1939 when as a lad of 16 I used to walk down Killinghall Road in the early morning to catch the train from Laisterdyke Station for Pudsey Greenside Station (long since done away with) and thence to Greenside Tannery, where I was office boy.
Train held up for star turn Gigli
8:43am Thursday 20th November 2008
Several references have appeared recently to Beniamino Gigli and his performance at the Gaumont Theatre.
Breaks from a hard life
8:44am Thursday 20th November 2008
While reading your Remember When? columns I started to think back to the days of the penny rush at the Empress cinema when the silent films were showing, and we wondered if the hero/heroine would escape by next week's episode.
Linton camp memories
10:28am Thursday 20th November 2008
During the war and for the decades up to its closure in the 1980s many Bradford children spent some time at Linton Camp, near Grassington.
The time of so little, yet so much
8:53am Thursday 13th November 2008
A journey back more than 50 years thanks to a new book
My happy life by the locks
8:56am Thursday 13th November 2008
Chimneys for neighbours on the banks of the former Bradford Canal
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