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  • Our stance on the future of York Barbican

    MATTHEW Woodcock's article on York District Sports Council document on the Barbican site redevelopment (December 27) needs putting in context. Firstly, we have tried for several years to develop a consultation and participation relationship with City

  • Kiely hits out at Craig

    FORMER York City number one Dean Kiely has hit out at the man viewed as the villain of the club's present critical status. Kiely, who since leaving the Minstermen in 1996 has gone on to become one of the Premiership's top goalkeepers and a Republic of

  • I know that face

    A DIP into the postbag is well overdue, and what better time to sit back and enjoy some of your responses to Yesterday Once More than Bank Holiday Monday? Lots of faces to scrutinise in our photographs, but first, we return to the theme of our previous

  • Golden age of the flicks

    TIM Addyman is too young to remember what is often called cinema's golden age. At 29, he marks the start of his film-going adventures with an unforgettable trip to see George Lucas's 1977 science fiction classic Star Wars. But there is something about

  • Everyday story of the village people

    BY Yorkshire standards, Yeoman Williamson is still a relative newcomer to Grosmont. He has, he points out, lived in the North York Moors village for 'only' 50 years. It may seem a little presumptuous of him, then, to have attempted to write a history

  • That's how we did it

    THEY don't make 'em like they used to. And this well-worn lament is never more true than when it applies to country crafts. The former army of skilled men and women bodging, weaving and whittling has dwindled to a handful keeping the traditions alive.

  • Night the bombs fell across York

    WHEN the sun came up over York 60 years ago today, it exposed scenes of devastation. Houses were destroyed, the Guildhall burnt out. The Bar Convent had collapsed, killing five nuns. Pavements were littered with rubble and shattered glass. Huge craters

  • Doctor knew best

    IN the early years of the last century, York's heritage was imperilled by progress. Landmarks across the city were under threat from roads, trams and an over-zealous council. Then along came a doughty and persistent conservationist who fought to save

  • In the flow

    TRAFFIC on the River Ouse consists almost entirely of pleasure craft these days. From the yachtsmen and women who cruise from Naburn Marina into town to the tourists taking a trip on the White Rose Line, we all adore the river life of leisure. But this

  • Flawed king of railways

    GEORGE Hudson was a Victorian fat cat who swindled people out of their cash and heaped shame on the good name of York. George Hudson was the far-sighted entrepreneur who single-handedly transformed York into a thriving, modern city. Two views of the Railway

  • Staying power of city hotels

    THE Royal York Hotel is being rechristened. Under its new name, it is no longer Royal or York, although it will remain a hotel. A Le Mridien hotel, to be precise, part of the global chain established in Paris by Air France 30 years ago. John Shannon,

  • A Grand century

    LAUREL and Hardy, Charlie Chaplin, Gracie Fields and Marty Feldman have much in common. They are among the most popular entertainers Britain (and America, in Oliver Hardy's case) ever produced; they were equally at home on film or in front of a live audience

  • Past captured on picture postcards

    SIX years ago, Ronald Caisley was looking for a hobby. He decided to have a go at collecting postcards. What began as a pastime quickly turned into a passion. "I started collecting postcards from around the country," he explained. "Then I thought I would

  • Festive seasons when times were hard

    TONIGHT, revellers will pack the pubs and bars. As the countdown draws closer, many will gather outside York Minster to hear the bells ring out the old and ring in the new. Arms will be linked, kisses exchanged and a chorus of Auld Lang Syne belted out

  • Brownie points from the past

    THE past will never be forgotten - thanks to our readers. Again our series of Yesterday Once More articles has prompted a fantastic postbag of memories, and it is time to dip into it again. Back on September 10 - how eerie that date now seems - we published

  • Ancient learning

    LAST month, to mark its 400th anniversary, the Charity Commission revealed details of some the country's oldest charities. Among them was St Peter's School in York, an institution that can look back over a remarkable 1,300 year history. Although the exact

  • Spanning the years

    THIS week's peek at the past shows the changing face of two York bridges. Thousands of York City fans will be familiar with the railway bridge at the bottom of Grosvenor Terrace, shown here with a steam train running under it in March, 1962. Supporters

  • City's hidden treasure

    We continue our look at some of York's ancient churches and their history. Holy Trinity Church in Goodramgate dates back to the 12th century. By the 1960s it had become redundant and it was restored in the mid-1970s. It was famous for having some of the

  • Come on in - it's lovely!

    THESE historic photographs of Rowntree Park Baths in York chart the once-popular swimming pool's decline over a decade. In the first picture a group of youngsters splash about in the open air pool when it opened for the summer season in 1973, although

  • Short back and sides...

    ONE of the key sights of spring in York has long been that of "daffodils dancing on the city moats" but keeping the Bar Walls pristine is a major task, as our pictures from the past prove. Our main image, from 1985, shows the finished product that resulted

  • Another look at York's pomp and splendour

    THIS week's Yesterday Once More is the second part of our series of photographs of the Northern Command Military Tattoo. The top picture shows the massed bands, of various regiments, ready to give the Tattoo a rousing send-off. The picture below shows

  • Tattoo's company

    THIS week's Yesterday Once More comes from 1955, when the Northern Command Military Tattoo returned to York after a 22-year gap. More than 100,000 packed Knavesmire to enjoy the pageantry. The top picture shows Arab Legion bandsmen rehearsing near the

  • Thank you, love, that'll be 7d

    THE busy hustle and bustle of haggling and bagging a bargain at one of York's market stalls has long been a feature of city centre street life. Today's selection of photos for Yesterday Once More in Pictures shows the changing face of market life over

  • On the Pavement

    SOME of York's most dramatic changes of the last 150 years can be seen in these photographs of Pavement and its historic buildings. The street used to end to the east with the old George Hotel, which was demolished in the 50s to make way for Stonebow,

  • All change for Stonegate

    LOOKING quiet in about 1893 is Stonegate - one of York's most historic streets.The Via Praetoria, or paved street, for the Roman fort of Eboracum, the street has been in use for about 1,900 years. This picture shows the street in more serene times with

  • Rubble, rubble, toil and...

    THESE old photographs show York's former garden suburb reduced to rubble following the demolition of condemned houses in the early 1960s. The Groves - so-called because it contained rows of fruit trees and vegetable plots in Victorian times to supply

  • Aldwark down memory lane

    THE transformation of the Aldwark area of York was at the heart of Lord Esher's vision for the city when he wrote his famous report, published in 1968. Lord Esher saw a future where industrial buildings could be taken out of the city and people brought

  • Lighting-up time

    A GRAND dame by day, a sultry beauty by night - York displays her bejewelled finery after dark. The nightscape transforms the city as street lamps or floodlights lend an even greater grandeur to the historic buildings. A time exposure eradicates the traffic

  • Taking the wind out of its sails

    ONCE York had 20 windmills, but only one survives. Holgate Mill was built in 1792, on the site of a 15th century mill, and now stands in the middle of a roundabout at the top of Windmill Rise. The photograph shows it, then known as Acomb Windmill, as

  • A real basinful of change on Foss

    THIS week's Yesterday Once More comes from one of York's busiest areas around the River Foss. The picture, from 1956, shows the dredger, Reklaw, gliding slowly under Layerthorpe Bridge. The barge was later converted into a pleasure craft for disabled

  • Oh, by Esk

    GEORGE WILKINSON takes a brisk walk by the sparkling River Esk then heads out on to the moors on a gloriously crisp, clear day Iwondered if the car park at Egton Bridge was ever blessed with any North York Moors sunshine. The village huddles deep in the

  • Bubbling beck

    GEORGE WILKINSON experiences stoat encounters of the furred kind in Arkengarthdale. Arkengarthdale was peaceful, we were at Whaw in the sunshine morning, nothing made a sound and nothing moved except a pair of stoats that scampered on the verge. A mile

  • Northern lights

    GEORGE WILKINSON explores the most northern of the Yorkshire Dales Many thanks to Mark Reid for covering for me and doing the walk the last two weeks. I have been on my travels, to London (not for the march) and then to Arkengarthdale the most northern

  • On Ilkley Moor

    Ilkley is one of the most elegant towns in England, a former spa town that has retained the dignified air that would have once attracted the wealthiest people to this "heather spa" in search of a cure during the Victorian and Edwardian era. However, there

  • Deep purple haze

    FOR perhaps a final fix of the purple heather this season we took ourselves off to Hawnby Moor. North we walked, three abreast, a mile and a half along a dusty track that penetrates and bisects the moor. Part of the territory looks fortified by turret-like

  • Hamlet happiness

    GEORGE WILKINSON stages a moorland walk in three acts. THE moors are starting to purple. But perhaps more than ever there are many moorland paths overgrown with the heather. I spent the best part of a wasted day last week to the north of Danby Beacon.

  • Foamy walk

    GEORGE WILKINSON meets the black-painted Darlington Mummers on his way to a waterfall that inspired Turner We pulled up outside the Green Man just as the black-painted Darlington Mummers boarded their coach. Folk festivals, for this was one - the inaugural

  • Plover and out

    J B Priestley wrote in his English Journey: 'We reached Buckden, towards the head of the Dale, and a notable goal for Bradfordians, who have emptied the barrels at the inn there many a time...'. Seventy years later there were 30 cars in the Upper Wharfedale

  • Pure Goldsborough

    George Wilkinson heads for the coast at Goldsborough and finds a lovely quiet spot just up the coast from busy Whitby GOLDSBOROUGH is a little village - a farm, a pub, a few old sandstone houses and an expansive sea view wide enough to show the curve

  • Gorse code

    AT THE Lion Inn at Blakey, roadies were setting up sound equipment for outdoor midsummer music on the moors. Just down the road a few yards after Ralph Cross we drove into Westerdale and then to the lovely sheltered car park and picnic spot called Hob

  • Tea trek

    GEORGE WILKINSON works up an appetite with a stroll along the river at Linton WE did this toddle in a fine evening after a longer walk nearby in the southern Dales. Supper was our main objective, and as the pub at Linton is on the Inn Way we felt there

  • Hambleton amble

    WE DROVE to the North York Moors Sutton Bank Visitors Centre and then along the dead straight Cleveland Road to where its Tarmac stops and it becomes the famous Hambleton Road. Here there are arrows for cycle trails - '12 miles, highly technical', 'seven

  • Harrogate pick up two vital points in title race

    HARROGATE preserved their promotion prospects with a tight 12-11 victory over lowly Wharfedale, who now move closer to the relegation danger zone. Both teams are capable of playing much better rugby than they showed but with the lead changing hands four

  • Comings and go Ings

    SERIAL seekers of wild floral shows, if you have done the daffs and the bluebells and have a taste for pink then head out now from York, for just one mile, and see the docks in bloom on Fulford Ings. A better bet than the 'retro-hippy' dandelions at this

  • New horizons

    Bolton Abbey is one of my favourite starts, a sentiment shared by the populace; there were more walkers than I have seen all year. This, my fourth visit for the Evening Press, was for a newish route up the Valley of Desolation and a little-publicised

  • In bloom

    George Wilkinson boards the bus for daffodil country When I mentioned to a Farndale friend that I was going out for a walk in his valley he said without a smile 'daffodils are not the only flower'. Farndale sees 50,000 visitors over Easter, when the banks

  • Further moor

    VICTORIA Ellis recently did an Evening Press walk on the North York Moors near the Hole of Horcum. There has been a fuss about it. A walker has phoned the paper complaining that her party was turned off the route; farmers have phoned the paper complaining

  • Southern style

    Ken Walker, a reader and walker from Camblesforth, near Selby, has written a kind letter to me and has requested more routes south of York. Fair point. So I went to Cawood for a big sky river ramble. We started near the arched steel swing bridge, channelled

  • Take it easy

    You may think that travelling to Hawes deep into Wensleydale for a three-mile toddle is a long way to drive for a short walk. We had our reasons. One, we wanted a look at the Dales Countryside Museum which is showing an exhibition called Tracks In Time

  • Take the old road

    Victoria Ellis enjoys a smashing walk on a newly discovered track If you have driven the Pickering to Whitby road you might have noticed enticing countryside in the northeast quarter about a mile before you reach the Hole of Horcum. The latest edition

  • Diceman can score on debut over fences - 30/12/02

    While Warwick's meeting tomorrow has been called off and Fontwell is considered unraceable, hopes are high that Catterick and Cheltenham can go ahead as planned. Bingley trainer Sue Smith, who had two winners at Haydock on Saturday, has good prospects

  • Giving it the works

    This year, the Evening Press held a writing competition. Entrants had to pen a factual article on York. In the first of the three winning entries to be published, ROB OLDFIELD recalls the carriageworks HOWEVER well you think you know York there's always

  • Christmas past

    POST-war austerity was gone, and a social revolution was about to explode. So Christmas 40 years ago was a curious mix of traditional celebrations and modern consumer boom. There was plenty of non-seasonal fare to interest the Evening Press reader in

  • Peace protesters arrested at base

    TWO people were arrested after breaking into RAF Fylingdales in a protest at the base's role in the proposed Son Of Star Wars system. Graham Kaynes, 31, and Ulla Roder, 48, were detained while attempting to reach a satellite communication dome, shortly

  • £1,700 gift from Saudi Arabia for York hospice

    A SPECIAL present from the Middle East has brought seasonal cheer to York's St Leonard's Hospice. Richard Worrell, a Barlby man who has spent much of the last 18 years living and working in the Middle East, organised his fellow expatriates in Saudi Arabia

  • Anna is our first winner

    A POPULAR new email service from the Evening Press has kept a York woman in the news AND in the money. Anna Bermingham, of Huntington, is among the many people to have signed up to daily email news alerts from the Evening Press. At about lunchtime each

  • Internet survey will shape health care

    AN INTERNET survey is to be used for the first time to shape health care policy in York, North Yorkshire and the East Riding. Internet users in York and across North and East Yorkshire are being given the chance to influence local health care policy from

  • Spies the limit for star cars

    THE world's smoothest secret agents have combined to charm customers at a York car salesroom. James Bond and Austin Powers have joined forces, as the Jaguars featured in their films have come to a halt at Minster Jaguar, in Clifton Moorgate. The XKR,

  • York fraudbusters honoured for work

    INNOVATION and good practice have resulted in a hat-trick of awards for York's environment and trading standards officers. City of York Council's food and safety team, health and safety team and trading standards fraud unit have all received nationally-accredited

  • Acorn vow to bounce back

    YORK Acorn are determined to put behind them the shocking display against Normanton Knights. Acorn boss Dave Kay was not given the best of Christmas presents as his side were hammered 48-6 by the team now coached by Great Britain and Bradford Bulls prop

  • Harrogate pick up two vital points in title race

    HARROGATE preserved their promotion prospects with a tight 12-11 victory over lowly Wharfedale, who now move closer to the relegation danger zone. Both teams are capable of playing much better rugby than they showed but with the lead changing hands four

  • Tree planting to replace lost woodland

    THOUSANDS of trees are to be planted across North Yorkshire in an attempt to replace some of the county's lost native woodland. About 100 hectares each year will be planted in the North York Moors and Howardian Hills, following a report on the benefits

  • Heroic display sees RI steam ahead

    YORK RI ended the year with a stunning 22-20 victory over a Northallerton side from the division above. Northallerton, who play their rugby in Yorkshire Two, relied on their heavy pack to win set piece ball and their stand-off to kick for position. This

  • Xmas excess fails to stop Malton

    MALTON and Norton maintained their push for promotion with a 21-16 victory over Beverley at the Gannock. After the Christmas excesses the quality of the rugby was not of standards reached in recent weeks, but it takes a special team to carry on winning

  • York firm sitting pretty with new contract

    A YORK firm has won a major contract with an international cosmetics giant. Time-attendance software specialist Mitrefinch Ltd, of Clifton Moor, has been selected to install its market-leading human resources software at the distribution centre of Golden

  • Bonsall's bonanza

    HARROGATE Town stretched their UniBond League premier division run to eight games unbeaten as they saw off Burscough 2-1 courtesy of Scott Bonsall's late winner. Clayton Donaldson had earlier put Town into the lead only for Drew Hyland to equalise. Selby

  • Carter builds Houses' title bid

    Dringhouses marched on towards the Reserve 'A' title with a 5-0 home win over Pocklington. Goals from Wayne Carter (2) and Danny Cocker in the first half ended the game as a contest and second half goals from Alex Dewhirst and Nick Brown completed the

  • Thousands of moors barns still need repair

    CALLS are being made to save one of the most familiar features of North Yorkshire landscapes - stone-built barns. A recent survey by the North York Moors National Park shows that thousands are still in poor shape. Of 6,000 barns still standing, nearly

  • Festive El for the division two leading pack

    Elvington's erratic Leeper Hare York and District League division two form continued as they went down to a surprise 4-0 defeat at Easingwold. The home side were four goals up by half-time courtesy of strikes from Lewis Calder, Gary Raper, Mick Raper

  • Bishopthorpe bring home the Bacon

    BISHOPTHORPE provided the Leeper Hare York and District League premier division shock of the day by beating championship contenders Malton Bacon Factory 2-1. The inclusion of Jack Bolton in midfield seemed to do the trick and their victory was more comfortable

  • Kiely hits out at Craig

    FORMER York City number one Dean Kiely has hit out at the man viewed as the villain of the club's present critical status. Kiely, who since leaving the Minstermen in 1996 has gone on to become one of the Premiership's top goalkeepers and a Republic of

  • Bid for shaved heads record

    A "HAIR-RAZING" stunt which could see a Guinness World Record smashed in York is still in need of willing volunteers. More than 100 people have already volunteered for an attempt on the Guinness world record for the most heads shaved in four hours, which

  • Shabby and not cricket

    IF buck-passing were an Olympic sport, this nation would be gold medallists. A critical debate over whether the England cricket team should play in Zimbabwe has been reduced to the various authorities telling one another: "No, it's up to you to decide

  • Choice on jabs

    WHILE the Government leaves cricketers to decide how to handle an international flashpoint, it bans parents from choosing how best to protect their children. Ministers still refuse to sanction single measles, mumps and rubella vaccinations on the health

  • Prints poke fun at 18th century followers of fashion

    A FASCINATING collection of prints by the fun-poking forerunners of today's tabloid commentators is to go on display at Fairfax House in York. More than 50 satirical prints have been lent to the Georgian house, in Castlegate, by York coroner Donald Coverdale

  • Hunt girl's dad dismisses Euan Blair romance story

    A NORTH Yorkshire landowner today dismissed speculation that his daughter had found romance with the Prime Minister's son, Euan Blair. A national newspaper yesterday reported that Rosie Willoughby, of North Grimston, near Malton, had recently been seen

  • Jockey dies after being kicked by horse

    TRIBUTES were paid today to a young apprentice jockey, who died after being kicked by a horse in the yard of a leading North Yorkshire trainer. Phil Greally, 20, was struck on the head by the horse at Mick Easterby's yard, near Sheriff Hutton. He was

  • Stars plea for support

    SATURDAY'S attendance of 7,856 was York City's biggest home gate for a competitive match in more than six years. It was City's biggest Bootham Crescent crowd for a League match in nine years, when a crowd of 8,481 saw a scoreless stalemate played out

  • Woman rescued from candles fire

    A WOMAN was carried to safety from her burning York home after firefighters smashed their way in and found her unconscious in an upstairs bedroom. Fire crews from York's Clifford Street station used a sledgehammer to break down the locked front door of

  • Fearless City

    YORK City boss Terry Dolan reckons his shining stars have nothing left to fear after underlining their promotion potential against Hull. After Saturday's gripping 1-1 derby draw with the Tigers, the Minstermen moved up to eighth in the table with just

  • Rain puts flood defences to test

    FLOODING chaos hit the York area today after 24 hours of heavy rain. Firefighters pumped out several properties, including a doctor's surgery car park, several roads were blocked and trains on the East Coast Main Line were delayed. At Norton, in Ryedale

  • No Whin situation

    PROPOSALS have just been announced to expand Harewood Whin refuse site, near Rufforth. This obnoxious method of dumping household waste on flat ground, was originally imposed on us by North Yorkshire County Council, before the last local government boundary

  • Protest to Nestl

    I AM astonished that you have not given major space to the disgraceful decision of Nestl to claim, through the courts, the sum of $6 million due to them (or to Rowntree?) because of the actions of a former government of Ethiopia. Many of us, through the

  • Joseph joy

    CONGRATULATIONS to the junior side of New Earswick Primary School on their recent production of Joseph. It was deeply refreshing to see it performed in its original context. Yes it makes a great theatrical production, but it was written to be performed

  • FEARLESS CITY

    SATURDAY'S attendance of 7,856 was York City's biggest home gate for a competitive match in more than six years. It was City's biggest Bootham Crescent crowd for a League match in nine years, when a crowd of 8,481 saw a scoreless stalemate played out

  • Fearless City

    YORK City boss Terry Dolan reckons his shining stars have nothing left to fear after underlining their promotion potential against Hull. After Saturday's gripping 1-1 derby draw with the Tigers, the Minstermen moved up to eighth in the table with just

  • 'Lawful money' bequest still city people

    Holy Trinity is still providing for the needy, 30 years after redundancy, as LEIGH WETHERALL writes THREE hundred and twenty five years ago, a death in the parish of St Mary Magdalene, Whitechapel, London, was to have a far-reaching, long-lasting effect

  • The Groves grow up

    YOU should never look back, they say. No good comes of it. Try telling that to Avril Webster Appleton. The York author has been peering over her shoulder in print for several years, bringing back many happy memories for local people in the process. Her

  • Back beats

    ANY of these boys strike a chord? They were doing just that in York's pubs and clubs back in the city's swinging Sixties. Some of the city's guitar heroes only knew the one chord when they started off, but regular gigs on the circuit soon polished their

  • Painting pictures

    NO other mass medium comes close to generating the magical memories of the movies. The telly, the wireless, even the theatre do not evoke the same sense of a communal occasion. Back when people went two or three times a week, every trip to those grand

  • Guide to yesteryear

    THOUSANDS of people flocked to Scarborough over the weekend to make the most of glorious sunny weather. Many of them will have bought a glossy guidebook detailing the history, attractions, hotels and nightlife on offer at the resort. But this week, a

  • Motherly myths and mysteries

    MOTHER Shipton is a legend. Ask anyone about her, and they are likely to scratch together a few facts: witch, prophetess, lived in a cave... Yet despite this fame, no one had undertaken a serious, historical study into her life. Until now. Yorkshire historian

  • A dramatic century

    THE words amateur dramatics conjure up a variety of images, few of them flattering, which usually involve draughty village halls, variable singing skills and shaky stage sets. But a York group of accomplished amateur performers continues to dispel that

  • Let there be flight

    WHEN Brian Mennell first started flying from Rufforth Airfield he asked about its history, only to be told that "nothing happened" there. This did not satisfy the tenacious retired policeman, so he kept asking. The result is his 112-page book packed with

  • Pirates of the airwaves

    LAST week we journeyed to Bridlington and Scarborough to reminisce about bygone summer holidays. This week we return to the Yorkshire coast for an altogether more swashbuckling tale of pirates on the high seas. These pirates did not brandish cutlasses

  • The day Mr Frith captured the coast

    THE North Sea coast is again celebrating its maritime history. Last month Whitby welcomed the Grand Turk, the square-rigged fighting frigate made famous by the TV series Hornblower. On Friday she was joined by one of the greatest stars of the sea: HMS

  • The millers' tales

    IS there any more nostalgic sight than a windmill? Memories of these monuments to England's past are prompted by a new book, kicking off Yesterday Once More's survey of the latest additions to the bygones bookshelf. Whitby author Alan Whitworth has produced

  • Living hell of D-Day on French beaches

    LAST Thursday marked the anniversary of D-Day. Fifty-eight years earlier, the Allied invasion force had landed in Normandy as the long-awaited Operation Overlord got underway; by midnight, 155,000 troops were ashore, for the loss of 9,000 men. Among the

  • A classy common

    GEORGE WILKINSON leads us on a Boxing Day walk where the animals take the scenery - and the walkers - in their stride Friday the 13th we walked a route selected for Boxing Day, but superstition ran like rain off waterproofed backs, and we had a super

  • Such celebrations

    ON this Royal holiday, it is fitting to begin Yesterday Once More with some monarchical memories. Readers have brought in their own mementoes of previous days of pomp and pageantry. Pauline Wilson was clearing out "some of my junk" when she came across

  • Harvesting history

    JUST far enough from the A1079 not to know it's there, Newton-upon-Derwent is a quiet place possessing what estate agents would describe as bags of character. It is not chocolate box pretty, but mature trees and ancient brick cottages give it a timeless

  • Keeping Dickens alive

    CHARLES Dickens was in York on Friday. Cedric Charles Dickens that is, great grandson of the commanding Victorian writer. He was taking up a long-standing invitation by the Dickens Fellowship, York branch. Mr Dickens is rightly proud of his famous forebear

  • Stories spoken down the years

    THERE is something marvellous about the way oral history can span the generations, bringing the voices of people long dead back to life. Roland Chilvers gives a beautiful example in the introduction to his new book, A Collection Of Pictures And Memories

  • Deported to Oz

    THE York Assizes were kept pretty busy during the convict era. Exactly 200 years ago Thomas Peters, a 26-year-old labourer, stood in the dock accused of "stealing old silver plate, including ten pint cups," says Marjorie Tipping in her book Convicts Unbound

  • The terrible voyage

    SOME dates are shorthand for infamy. April 15, 1912, is one: the night when the Titanic sank. It was last century's September 11. Like September 11, disaster came from nowhere; it involved huge loss of life - more than 1,500 people died; and it was a

  • Royal picture recalled

    THIS week we remember the Queen Mother's first visit to York. Readers will recall how we published a photograph of the Duke and Duchess of York, as the future King George VI and Queen Elizabeth were then, and asked for your help in identifying it last

  • Royal picture puzzle

    EVERYONE loves a good mystery, and this one can only be solved by you. Take a look at our main picture this week. Ring a distant bell? Recognise any of the faces? The photograph is from the collection of Walter Hawksby, of Acomb, York. It is a royal occasion

  • Charity begins at home

    NEW Earswick is not so new any more. This year is the 100th anniversary of the founding of the "garden village", and the centenary celebrations began in appropriate fashion last week with the planting of a commemorative oak tree. More events are planned

  • When bombers filled the skies

    ELVINGTON Airfield could soon be flying into a new future. The owners have applied for an aerodrome licence, allowing it to take fare-paying passengers for the first time. It is the latest chapter in the history of an airfield which once played a key

  • Dawn of a new age

    THE world was a very different place when the Queen acceded to the throne. Georgian Britain became Elizabethan Britain 50 years ago this week, and although it was the dawning of a new age, it was too soon for the nation to come to terms with the fact.

  • York's touch of glass

    THESE views of York date from a different era of photography. Forget digital cameras, and even rolls of film. The York scenes above were captured on glass negatives. They were very kindly given to the Evening Press by Lilian Vear, who lives off Rawcliffe

  • Tales of the hangman

    STEPHEN LEWIS discovers the hangmen of York were less than model citizens ANY delving into the murkier aspects of York's past is bound to yield copious details - some true, some mere legend - about the lives and deaths of the city's two most notorious

  • Book a date with history

    AS the success of television series like Battlefields and Blood Of The Vikings has proved, there's a huge public appetite for history. If someone you know loves to travel back in time, a history book makes the perfect Christmas present. For those who

  • A steamy romance!

    ONCE they were an essential mode of transport, much loved by thousands of soot-covered passengers the length and breadth of Britain. Today the steamy romance lives on at the North Yorkshire Moors Railway, where eight locomotives are in use along the 17

  • City's days of glory

    AS football hysteria grips the Far East, our pictorial trip down Memory Lane this week looks at when the glory days were here in York. Two of our pictures tell the story of the Minstermen's glorious conquest of the Fourth Division in 1984, when York City

  • Here endeth the lesson

    THIS WEEK and next week the Evening Press is taking a look at some of York's lost historic places of worship. One such is Salem Congregational Church, built at the junction of Spen Lane and St Saviourgate, in 1839, at a cost of £5,000, to accommodate

  • All the Queen's horses, and the...

    THE pomp and circumstance of the Golden Jubilee parades in London inspired this week's selection of pictures, which show parades in the streets of York over the years. The main picture dates from 1971, when crowds lined the pavements of Blossom Street

  • When the baths took a dive

    ONCE, it was among York's finest buildings. But by 1960, the York Public Baths were in a sorry and dilapidated state. Situated on the banks of the Ouse, years of flooding and neglect began to take their toll. The first picture, taken in November 1960,

  • Strictly for the birds

    AS the tourist season gets into full swing in York, King's Square becomes a magnet for the crowds, as visitors stop a while to watch street entertainers and munch chips and ice creams. Today's selection of archive pictures show how the square used to

  • When it was Carry on, Nurse

    FORMER patients and medical workers may recognise these fascinating historic pictures of former York Hospitals. The 19th century York County Hospital building, in Monkgate, remains as one of the city's most distinguished buildings after the hospital closed

  • How York hailed that other jubilee

    THIS week's Yesterday Once More looks ahead to the Queen's Golden Jubilee - by remembering her trips to York during the 1977 Silver Jubilee. Firstly we show the Queen's motorcade arriving at one of the most popular routes into York - Micklegate. There

  • Old Davygate days

    THIS week's look back takes us to Davygate, which has become a chic hotspot of coffee dens and designer stores. But these pictures hail from well before the time of Caffe Nero, Monsoon, and the Borders bookshop building. The first, taken in 1903, looks

  • A real Eye-opener

    THE future of the site around historic Clifford's Tower in York remains clouded in uncertainty, with a public inquiry into a £60 million redevelopment scheme due to resume next month. Objectors are fiercely opposing the Coppergate Riverside proposals

  • A royal occasion

    IN a week when the nation has mourned the loss of everyone's favourite grandmother, Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother, the Evening Press looks back on a happier time spent by the Royal Family in York. On June 8, 1961, the full splendour and tradition

  • The street which was measured in yards...

    TODAY'S look-back at times past in York focuses on the history of Walmgate, the current home of the Evening Press. These pictures are from 1933, and show side streets and yards from around the longest of York's "gate" streets. One theory behind the name

  • When Stone bowed in...

    STONEBOW in York has been the site of major redevelopment over the past few decades as illustrated by these photographs. The large picture of Stonebow in 1963 shows the foundations for the much-criticised Stonebow House. At the rear of the site is Central

  • The birth of Coppergate

    THE long debate over the Coppergate Riverside proposals is coming to a climax with the public inquiry which started this week at York's Guildhall. So it's a good time to look back at the construction of the original Coppergate Centre, which was designed

  • Street's rise from rubble

    ST Andrewgate is now a sought-after address in the shadow of York Minster. One of its most unusual addresses is number St Andrewgate, a residential development by local architect Tom Adams. But the street has undergone enormous changes, particularly since

  • Spuds you hike

    GEORGE WILKINSON witnesses the potato harvest near the village of Scackleton. THE village of Scackleton is long and linear, with two pumps, shaggy sheep, a pond and a hint of an ancient moat. It lies bang in the middle of the Howardian Hills Area of Outstanding

  • Forever autumn

    George Wilkinson enjoys an Indian Summer walk in Arkengarthdale. This is the last of my three walks in Arkengarthdale, a place I can recommend. The dale is a distance from York, that's why I did it in a midweek-break/saver fashion. Three days of glorious

  • Lakeland stroll

    While George Wilkinson is away, Mark Reid leads the first of two walks, here setting off in search of John O'Gaunt's Castle THE Washburn Valley is true Dales country, with stoutly-built stone barns and sinuous walls dividing up the fields of deep velvety

  • Golden harvest

    We came into Huggate on York Lane and left a landscape burnished in the harvest time heat for the cool of the Wolds Inn at noon. Thereby "mad dogs and Englishmen" were delayed a while, and it was hot, more than 80 degrees Fahrenheit. Huggate is a low

  • Heather and yon

    THE landscape backdrop to today's walk is purple heather. The political backdrop is a huge and hugely successful public access arrangement. The land at Bolton Abbey is owned by the Duke of Devonshire who this year publicly apologised for the treatment

  • Moor downpour

    IT was tanking down on the North York Moors, stair rods. A lonely long-distance runner splashed past the car park on the edge of Wykeham Forest, everyone else was sensibly indoors, we tried to get our waterproofs on without a soaking. Then came some hanging

  • Losing the way

    THE Howardian Hills are an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. After being repulsed by vegetation and crops on a walk out of Terrington, I thought AONB might expand as Area of Outstandingly Nullified Byways. Later in the week we tried again from Terrington

  • Reserved for us

    My busman's holiday, this time from Anglesey, with a view from the tent of Snowdonia tapering down to the Lleyn Peninsula, tepid showers and a deafening dawn chorus of Welsh jackdaws. We had come for the Newborough Warren Nature Reserve, one of our favourite

  • A restful repast

    WE got up early and beat the Bank Holiday traffic to the western dales, seeking a quiet and very colourful walk on the land between Grassington and Malham. The sun shone on Boss Moor and a big owl was floating along the gritstone walls till ushered away

  • Acorn vow to bounce back

    YORK Acorn are determined to put behind them the shocking display against Normanton Knights. Acorn boss Dave Kay was not given the best of Christmas presents as his side were hammered 48-6 by the team now coached by Great Britain and Bradford Bulls prop

  • Cloud cover

    George Wilkinson goes in and out of cloud as he walks on Thimbleby Moor above Osmotherley WE sat in the car on Thimbleby Moor above Osmotherley as the rain lashed the windscreen. Cloud at one thousand foot smeared out the top of Black Hambleton, the nearest

  • Heroic display sees RI steam ahead

    YORK RI ended the year with a stunning 22-20 victory over a Northallerton side from the division above. Northallerton, who play their rugby in Yorkshire Two, relied on their heavy pack to win set piece ball and their stand-off to kick for position. This

  • Dogged by George

    Saltmarshe is a hamlet on the Yorkshire side of the River Ouse about five miles upstream of the Humber Estuary. We visited because Mr Ayre from Elvington, an Evening Press reader, sent in a tempting route. Thank you, we enjoyed the walk very much. The

  • Xmas excess fails to stop Malton

    MALTON and Norton maintained their push for promotion with a 21-16 victory over Beverley at the Gannock. After the Christmas excesses the quality of the rugby was not of standards reached in recent weeks, but it takes a special team to carry on winning

  • Making tracks

    GEORGE WILKINSON goes on the trail of a faint path out of Glaisdale We left the straggling village of Glaisdale and climbed out on a road that becomes 'unsuitable for motors', had a sit on a bench, enjoyed the long rich views down the Esk Valley and moaned

  • Welcome diversion

    Kettlewell was as lovely as ever except for a migration of caravans and a pipeline. Rain was forecast from the west, there was a dusting of snow on Great Whernside and we had barely set off down Lovers Lane by the sparkling River Wharfe when, late in

  • Wait and see

    Today's walk could have been made for the Moorsbus Service. A short ride from Helmsley takes you to the top of Newgate Bank in Bilsdale and then you can walk back to the town over moors and through the bluebell valley of Riccal Dale using newly designated

  • Wolds winner

    George Wilkinson discovers an unmissable walk in the Wolds THIS is a wonderful Wolds walk, one of the best I have done. We started at Fordon which is a farm, a mini church, a house or two, that's all, a hamlet at the junction of North Dale, East Dale

  • Hungry work

    Many thanks to Evening Press reader Shamuna Aslam for the gist of this gourmet's gambol to Helmsley via Harome. Rather than gamble on the buses I have started you at Oswaldkirk, which is served by Moorsbuses from York, Helmsley and elsewhere. We began

  • Room for all

    There were streaks of snow on the colder slopes of the Cleveland Hills but in Great Ayton, ice cream consumption continued institutionally at Suggitts' caf. Visitors to this famous refuelling stop looked out over the River Leven; hard core cyclists slurped

  • All white now

    GEORGE WILKINSON is back on his feet and makes the most of a late-winter snowfall Snow, a rare treat, and to make the most of it, to avoid any chance of slush, we changed our plan, from the gentle hills around Coxwold to the high ground of Bransdale.

  • Rocking to £10,000

    FESTIVE fundraiser Rocking Rudolph looks to have raised almost £10,000 this Christmas. He raised a whopping £4,706 in his appearances with Minster Lions. He made flying visits to supermarkets across the city, as well as streets in Heworth, Huntington

  • Better access aim by group

    PROPOSALS to provide disabled access and extra space at York Council for Voluntary Service's headquarters in the city are set to go before planners. The umbrella group for a range of city help services has applied for planning permission to build a "contemporary

  • Bulldozers move in on ex-printworks

    A LONG-standing feature of York's landscape is rapidly disappearing from view. The RR Donnelley building, which used to be a prominent feature in Boroughbridge Road, will soon be gone as the demolition process continues. The factory is making way for

  • Inquiry to rule on riverside scheme

    AN INQUIRY is to be held into a North Yorkshire restaurateur's plans to build homes at a riverside beauty spot. Leo Campagna wants to demolish his restaurant, Da Mario's, on Waterside, in Knaresborough, and the nineteenth century cottage next door, in

  • Submarine technology to find leaks

    TECHNIQUES used by naval experts for tracking undersea menaces are being put to a new use in Yorkshire - to seek out leaks in underground water pipes. Technology developed by Ministry of Defence scientists to help surface vessels hunt down enemy submarines

  • Whistle-blowers to get protection

    PEOPLE blowing the whistle on wrongdoing within North Yorkshire County Council could soon be guaranteed protection from reprisals or victimisation. A new set of proposals set to go before senior North Yorkshire councillors would see the council's whistle-blowing

  • Magic Milner makes his mark

    'MILNERMANIA' is threatening to envelop Elland Road.Teenager James Milner sprang off the bench to seal Leeds United's first Premiership victory on home soil with a cracking goal in the 2-0 win over title-chasing Chelsea. It was his second strike inside

  • Rocking horse gift for hospice

    A TALENTED York wood carver has donated a handmade rocking horse to Martin House Children's Hospice, at Boston Spa. John Church, 57, of Burton Stone Lane, has taken nine weeks to make the old-fashioned toy. It is made out of solid mahogany and has been

  • York to be base for single jabs?

    A MOBILE clinic which offers single vaccinations to children in York could become a permanent fixture in the city. London-based Direct Remedies, which became the first clinic to offer single measles, mumps and rubella vaccines in the city, has been so

  • Restaurant and shops plan for old school site

    A DEVELOPER is planning to turn a former private school building in the centre of York into a restaurant, shops and apartments. Hull firm George Houlton and Sons (Holdings) Ltd has applied for planning permission to redevelop the former York College for

  • Website puts buyers in the picture

    A YORK artist has sold a piece of work to a buyer at the other side of the world thanks to a new website. Reuban Mayne, who set up the site called art4uz.com, has made his first sale to a buyer in Singapore. He said: "Of course I'm delighted to have got

  • North Yorks housing boom set to continue

    HOUSE prices in York and North Yorkshire are expected to remain buoyant while the market in the south-east stagnates, according to the latest predictions. The new Housetrack survey found that counties with low property prices were still experiencing a

  • Trains back on track

    RAIL services were largely back on track today following a weekend of misery for passengers. The East Coast Main Line between York and Darlington reopened today after a weekend of engineering works. Network Rail was carrying out maintenance work from

  • Crash man's plea for help

    A BLOODSTAINED motorist knocked on the door of a house seeking medical help after crashing his car on a North Yorkshire road early today. The man had crashed his grey Mini Cooper on the A661 at Spofforth, south of Harrogate, at about 2.30am. The householder

  • Peace protesters arrested at base

    TWO people were arrested after breaking into RAF Fylingdales in a protest at the base's role in the proposed Son Of Star Wars system. Graham Kaynes, 31, and Ulla Roder, 48, were detained while attempting to reach a satellite communication dome, shortly

  • York City 1, Hull City 1

    GOODBYE to 2002 and good riddance. But at least York City saw off their 'annus horribilis' in cracking, and now almost trademark, style. The much wanted win was not forthcoming, but there can be few complaints about the performance from City or the entertainment

  • Vows that never last

    AS an annual festivity, my dislike of Christmas is topped only by my hatred of New Year. All that middle-of-the-night razamatazz, carousing and - will we ever escape them - fireworks. Fine of you've got something to shout about. But not if you haven't