NEWS FROM 100 YEARS AGO : 31 May 1925
31 MAY 1925
The King and Queen formally opened the new Great West Road, claimed to be one of the finest highways in the world. The aim was to provide a new route from London to the West and avoided the use of the bottle neck at Brentford.
A plot was uncovered to assassinate the Bolshevik revolutionary Christian Rakovsky in London.
Five men were burned in an explosion at the Darton Main Colliery in Barnsley.
