The wooden roadway! (From Bradford Telegraph and Argus)

The wooden roadway!

8:48am Monday 22nd February 2010 in

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A letter from Mr D Yates, of Baildon, comes to us on the subject of roads. He writes: “Most roads and streets in the 1940s were cobbled, but what I found unusual was that Market Street in Bradford had a surface made of wooden blocks.

“Did any other street have them? Was it experimental and unique to Bradford? It may have been to deaden the noise of passing traffic at the Wool Exchange – quite a lot of horse and carts were about.”