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Living on Pool Bank New Road

We moved to Pool in 1943 as my father had a job as an aircraft inspector at the factory at what is now Leeds & Bradford Airport.
We lived in a house one corner up from the notorious Furze Hill Corner which was a very regular place for serious road accidents. I remember vividly witnessing an accident involving a car carrying some airmen which failed to negotiate the corner and collided with a Samuel Ledgards bus travelling up the hill towards Bradford. I had only just started school at Pool in Wharfedale C of E school and I was walking home with an older girl from the school whose name I believe was Shirley Lee when the accident happened. The corner was sharp , downhill and with an adverse camber which I think all contributed to the accident

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A memory of Pool In Wharfedale in West Yorkshire shared on Tuesday, 8th February 2011.

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