25 years ago: Textile workers ignored a one-day strike in support of a pay claim. Mill bosses said 80 per cent of the industry’s 20,000 workers clocked on as normal.
50 years ago: Otley Show officials’ £6,000 gamble on the weather paid off, for although there was a slight drop in the number of entries, last year’s attendance of 20,000 was surpassed.
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