In 1857, the Bradford, Wakefield and Leeds Railway opened.
In 1887, Lord Cranbrook opened Drummond Road Board Schools, Bradford.
In 1952, Britain exploded its first atomic bomb off the Monte Bello Islands, west of Australia.
From the Telegraph & Argus of October 3, 1975...Streets were turned into rivers in the Manningham and Whetley Hill areas today after a 24-inch water main burst in Church Street, near the Upper Globe pub. A torrent 30ft wide and nearly three feet deep swept down the road, washing away parked cars like toys and floodding cellars.
From the Telegraph & Argus of October 3, 1950..."Children who fail to make the pace at grammar school invariably come from a home where the conversation is on nothing but horse-racing and the cinema, where there is not a book in the house and the child has to do homework among fish and chips," Mrs Kingswell, retired head of Wakefield Girls' School, told a teaching forum.
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