21 optimistic photos take you back to Otley in 2003
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‘No lorries through Otley’ was the non-nonsense message from protestors who took to the streets of the market town to make their views heard on the issue. This was 2003, a 12 months which featured a community coming together thanks to the Otley Carnival, Otley Show, Otley Cycle Races and the annual Victorian Christmas Fair. Enjoy these photo memories, plucked from the YEP archive, charting a year in the life of Otley and its residents in the early 2000s. READ MORE: 43 closed Leeds pubs which...

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