In response to a letter in Remember When? last week, Derek Mozley, of Shipley, writes: “Mr Yates mentioned the wooden blocks in Market Street. I am not sure whether any other street had them but one thing is certain – they were totally unsuitable in the event of flooding.
“I recall that in the upheaval of September 1946, after a particularly wet summer, the Beck overflowed and burst upwards through the road surface, causing many blocks to float down Market Street.
“A wooden roundabout outside the Ritz Cinema was used as a raft by a couple of adventurous young men, poling it down towards Forster Square in their own version of shooting the rapids!”
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