Reader Mike Addy, from Badger Hill, recently sent in three photos from the 1950s. Since two of them showed workers on their annual 'outing to the seaside', bank holiday Monday seemed a good time to run them.

The photographs show:

1. The Tang Hall Working Men's Club annual outing to the seaside, some time in the late 1950s. "The only person I can name is my late father Harold Addy, first on the left, kneeling," writes Mike. "He died in 1960 and the photograph could well have been taken in 1958."

2. The Rowntree sawmill department's annual outing to the seaside in 1956. The sawmill department came under the card box department, Mike says, and its main function was to make packing cases for sweets, and advertising props such as wooden dummy Polo tubes and chocolate bars. The annual seaside outing went usually to Scarborough, Bridlington or Whitby - or occasionally, as in 1956, to more than one of these destinations. He knows that, because he was among the sawmill employees who went on the trip...

"The coach appears to have been hired from York-West Yorkshire," Mike writes. "If I recall correctly the coach would leave quite early, loading up with crates of beer for the journey, possibly from the Bay Horse, Heworth Road, then calling at Bower's restaurant in Malton for breakfast and arriving at the destination around lunchtime." Sounds like a pretty good day out, to us...

3. The staff of the sawmill department, taken in the Rowntree sawmill.

Many thanks, Mike.

We've included as many of the names as Mike can remember in the captions. Any readers who once worked at Rowntree might recognise some more...

Stephen Lewis