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FORMER Bradford Grammar School teacher Dr Andrew Liddle recalls an encounter with a man he later learned was Peter Sutcliffe. ‘C’mon, lad, let’s get us sens across t’t Ferrands,’ he said, bossily. ‘There’s nowt happening here!’ The announcement last November of the death of Peter William Sutcliffe, otherwise known as the Yorkshire Ripper, brought these words back to me - and at that moment I found myself looking down the vista of 50 or more years to when they were spoken. Being then, as now, a great fan of New Orleans jazz, my Monday nights were spent at the Old King’s Head in Bingley, later demolished to make way for the Bradford & Bingley Building Society. It was exactly right for a jazz pub, a bit on the shabby side but with perfect acoustics and it was spruced up considerably by three giant black and white drawings of jazz greats. The piano was beat-up but highly strung, ideal for the type of music. ....