25 years ago: British Rail was getting people from Bradford to London slower than nearly half a century ago.
50 years ago: A 300-gallon oil storage talk and a boiler house at Silsden Aire View County Primary School were wrecked by an explosion which badly shook homes overlooking the school yard.
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