More on the Page Wood pulpit, right, this time from Jack Rushton who writes from Clayton to tell me that the Booth family who lived in the cottage nearby were his Uncle Alf and Auntie Ada.
"Alfred was my mother's eldest brother," he writes. "They always kept the pulpit neat and tidy along with the grass verge opposite it for the people attending. I was always told that it was a Methodist pulpit and it was believed John Wesley may have preached there. It was said that there were look-outs posted in case of trouble so that people could be got away quickly.
"The cottage was very basic. Yes, there were only oil lamps and the water as I remember came from an old-type pump with a long handle. The toilet was outside the hut and very draughty. It was cleared periodically, along with the ashes."
Thanks for that, Jack.
l From a pulpit to a police box. The other week we carried a piece confirming that the old Bradford boxes used to be red. However, that runs contrary to Rita M Kirton's memories from the 1930-40s era.
"I remember a police box in the middle of the wide end of New Lane (Sticker Lane/ Laisterdyke end)," she writes. "In my memory it was dark blue, like the Tardis. As a child I was curious about the contents of the little door at the back of the box, but never dared to open it."
Good job you didn't, Rita. You might have found a Dalek in there!
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