BEFORE the opening of the Braithwaite by-pass in 1938, the Laycock buses ran through the village, where the road at its narrowest point measured some nine feet across, leaving only a few inches to spare between bus and buildings.

According to the Keighley News of the time, this bus route “attracted national interest”!

This photograph, with its group of onlookers and the bus marked Private, was probably taken shortly before the by-pass opened, when members of the National Omnibus Society visited the local West Yorkshire Road Car Company and requested to be shown this “unique route”.

It was supplied by Mr Kevin Seaton, of Shann Lane, Keighley.