Flood warnings and defences are very much in the news at the moment and these remarkable pictures show the chaos caused by heavy downpours and a freak storm in the 1950s and 1960s. On the left hand page we can see the scenes after a particularly heavy downpour in Guiseley in 1954 as vehicles battled their way along roads that could easily have been mistaken for rivers. On August 21 Otley Road in Guiseley looked more like a river than a busy route through the centre of the town. In one image a lorry can be seen heading towards Leeds on the badly flooded road. The picture below that captures a number 55 bus ploughing on despite the horrendous conditions as it made its way towards Bradford.