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A Memory of Otley.
I was born in Otley hospital as were most from Guiseley and all around. In 1969 I was posted there as a police officer and stayed until 1974. My daughter was born there in 1972 and my dad died there on his 81st birthday. I know every alleyway and every warm heating outlet at 2am... and of course the doughnut bakery down Bridge Street. Last night I found that my two Sergeants died in the 1990s and life is going fast!
I live in the beautiful Cascade Mountains in Washington State now but I come back to Otley (The Junction) 3 times a year. There is something about the place. I owned an Austin Devon 1947 when I lived there and that would be much older than the cars on these photos. I put a ticket on Jimmy Saville's car at Cross Green - no tax disc ! Otley is real. Not nice, not nasty, just real. Poor but happy I was - in Otley. When I come back to the elephant's graveyard it will be Otley - not Ilkley.
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