25 years ago: About 28,000 letters and parcels were delivered late to Shipley homes because a tea machine broke down, flooding the Otley Road sorting office.
50 years ago: The Minister of Labour, Edward Heath, visited Remploy’s Bradford factory in Barnard Road, and Bradford Labour Exchange.
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1884: A major earthquake hit Colchester and parts of East Anglia measuring 5.2 on the Richter Scale 1943: The printing of British £1,000 notes was discontinued
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