25 years ago: Bradford Council’s Education Committee chairman Eric Pickles told of the “two years of industrial warfare” he had faced since taking office. The councillor was speaking at the annual dinner of the National Association of Headteachers at the Victoria Hotel.
50 years ago: Former Bradford schoolteacher Mrs E Makinson recalled the smallpox epidemic which struck Bradford at the turn of the century on the BBC’s Today programme.
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