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New Road Side, Bill Bancroft Ltd. Motor Cycles, number 173.

Description:
14th May 1980. Image shows the stone built premises of Bill Bancroft Ltd. Motor Cycles at number 173 New Road Side. The adjoining property is number 181 New Road Side. Various motor cycles are on diplay in the windows of the showroom and there are more parked outside alongside a caravan. The firm advertises as a Honda Specialist. To the left there is an Amoco Service Station.

User Comments:

Name:

jane sharp

Comment:

if i remember rightly, bancrofts had to be demolished because a woman driving past, swerved to avoid running a cat over, and went straight through the window. the amoco petrol station is now a car sales pitch, victoria garage.

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jane.sharp666@ntlworld.com

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Name:

James Lovedale

Comment:

I always thought this building was badly damaged by a gas explosion. It occurred in the early morning during the mid 90s.

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Name:

Martin White

Comment:

I mostly agree with Jane, but I didn't think the whole building was demolished, they just turned the demolished showroom into the downstairs of the houses(and I thought it was a fox not a cat!)

Email:

mwhite@dandara.com

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Name:

Les Billingham

Comment:

My wife and I used to work with Bill Bancroft's daughter-in-law, Carol (who was a Tracer), at Jos Booth's crane works in Rodley in the mid 1960's. Her husband, Mick, was a motor-bike racer in those days. I too remember the car crashing into the bike showroom. We lived in Newlaithes Garth at the bottom of the Victorias in the 1970's.

Date:

19-May-2010

Email:

ann-les-taz2@tiscali.co.uk

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Name:

Chris Bancroft

Comment:

I remember it too, It was a horrible horrible day. But i got the next few days off school! Yeah some women swerved to miss something in the road!!!! It was first belived by the Fire brigade to be gas, but then one of the Fireman heard her under the rubble! PS i'm Dave Bancrofts Son.

Date:

08-Sep-2011

Email:

hrc_monty@hotmail.com

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Name:

Mark Saville

Comment:

This was formerly Airedale House (once in use by Miss Little's dame school from about 1880-1913). It caught fire in about 1936 then Bill Bancroft used it as a motorbike showroom and for repairs (continued by his sons) until the late 1990s when someone crashed into the front door and demolished the building. The property that stands there now was a school built for the Church of the Latter Day Saints who vacated it in (about) 2009.

Date:

26-Sep-2012

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