In 1897, the Duke of Devonshire laid the foundation stone of the Bradford Nurses Home.

In 1904, huts at the Somali village at the Bradford Exhibiton in Lister Park, caught fire.

In 1963, a direct teleprinter line between the White House and the Kremlin - the Hot Line - was set up.

From the Telegraph & Argus of August 30, 1975...Two Bierley housewives have organised a petition demanding a 20 mph speed limit on Ferrand Avenue and action about a dangerous junction on the road. They started the petition on July 24, the day after a two- year-old child was knocked down on the road. Besides demanding the speed limit the petition calls for a bollard at the junction of Hambledon Avenue and Ferrand Avenue.

From the Telegraph & Argus of August 30th, 1950...In an unusual prosecution at Pudsey today, a young Farsley housewife, from Charles Street, was summoned for placing a rope across a highway in such a manner as to cause danger to traffic. A heavy lorry passing along Charles Street caught a clothes line on which the lady was drying her washing. The line pulled out a coping stone from the wall to which it was attached and this trapped and slightly injured a woman.