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Beneath the surface of York's colourful past we delve into the detail of Vikings, Romans and Victorians...
Memories of school days, parties and trips to coast
11:32am Monday 20th May 2013
WE have an interesting mixed bag of old photos sent in by readers in Yesterday Once More this week.
Old pictures of Whitby
11:23am Monday 20th May 2013
We have three more pictures from North Yorkshire historian Robin Cook's wonderful Whitby Through Time, which featured a couple of weeks ago.
Memories of Holgate Windmill sought
9:12am Wednesday 15th May 2013
MEMORIES and tales of a York landmark are being sought in a bid to fill the gaps in its history.
A life less Ordinary
12:31pm Monday 13th May 2013
THE recent 71st anniversary of the devastating German air raid that became known as the York Blitz prompted Press reader David Moat and his wife, Joan, to get in touch.
Tang Hall history group seeking shopping memories
12:24pm Monday 13th May 2013
Tang Hall local history group is planning an exhibition on shops and shopping in York down the years and would like the help of readers.
Pictures of Whitby show a proud history
11:28am Monday 6th May 2013
THERE is always a sense of pride to be had when, on being asked to declare your place of birth, you are able to write “Whitby, Yorkshire”, writes local historian Robin Cook.
Celebrating 40 years of the North Yorkshire Moors Railway
9:22am Thursday 2nd May 2013
It is 40 years this week since the North Yorkshire Moors Railway was reopened by the Duchess of Kent. NATALYA WILSON explains how a meeting in her grandfather’s house in 1967 led to a rescue mission to save the railway after it was axed by Beeching
Royal Dragoon Guards Association launches oral history project
9:33am Wednesday 1st May 2013
THE Royal Dragoon Guards Association has received £36,000 from the Heritage Lottery fund for an oral history project.
Clive recalls the coronation
1:04pm Monday 29th April 2013
LAST year was the Queen’s diamond jubilee. This year, however, marks another milestone in her reign – the 60th anniversary of her coronation.
Lord Mayor’s Parade pictures bring back happy memories
12:57pm Monday 29th April 2013
We have had a big response to our photos in last week’s Yesterday Once More of the 1971 Lord Mayor’s Parade.
War crash site to be opened to the public
9:31am Friday 26th April 2013
THE site of a Second World War plane crash is to be opened to the public as part of a village festival next month.
Floating down the ’seventies
12:18pm Monday 22nd April 2013
We return to the 1970s in Yesterday Once More this week – for no reason other than that we managed to find some wonderful old photos from the “decade that fashion forgot” in our online archive.
Pioneering study by York university reveals use of pots in glacial period
8:57am Tuesday 16th April 2013
HUNTER-gatherers living in glacial conditions produced pots for cooking fish, according to the findings of a pioneering new study led by the University of York.
The indomitable Mrs Crichton of York
11:49am Monday 15th April 2013
DURING the London Blitz, Queen Elizabeth – later to be known as the Queen Mother – famously refused to leave the capital. “The children won’t go without me. I won't leave the King. And the King will never leave,” she is reported to have said.
Focusing on Davygate’s past
11:42am Monday 8th April 2013
MORE pictures of old York this week courtesy of local historian Hugh Murray.
Can you spot a winner?
11:38am Monday 8th April 2013
Jane Burrows of the Tang Hall History Group brought in this fascinating photograph of a York girls’ rounders team dating from almost 100 years ago.
Call up for a TA reunion
11:11am Monday 1st April 2013
TERRY Bellwood was a big lad; and strong, too. You can tell that from the brilliant photo in Yesterday Once More this week, in which he’s effortlessly holding his two friends Gary Carlisle and Mally Myers suspended above the ground, feet dangling.
Coronation memories
10:59am Monday 1st April 2013
Reader Chris Moorey has been in touch from Edinburgh with details of an event that took place almost 60 years ago during his childhood in York.
Hand decorated Easter eggs from Rowntree's heyday
10:27am Saturday 30th March 2013
THESE vintage images show Easter eggs being decorated at Rowntrees in York in its heyday.
War wounds of a stately kind
9:28am Friday 29th March 2013
With the 100th anniversary of the start of the First World War fast approaching, some of Yorkshire’s finest stately homes have decided 2013 is the year to stage major exhibitions reflecting the impact that war had upon them. STEPHEN LEWIS reports
Within York’s prison walls
12:01pm Monday 25th March 2013
Last Monday in Yesterday Once More we promised that this week we'd offer you a glimpse inside the old York Prison.
History of Castle Mills Bridge
12:16pm Monday 18th March 2013
AT first glance, our main photograph today looks as though it was taken in a major industrial city at the height of a building boom.
Reader recalls 1958 rail crash
12:03pm Monday 18th March 2013
Press reader Len Stamper, from Rufforth, has been in touch about the photos we carried a few weeks ago of the York to Sunderland train which overran the buffer stops on Platform 12 at York Station in August 1958, injuring 11 people.
The pride of Coney Street
3:02pm Tuesday 12th March 2013
A FEW weeks ago, we carried in Yesterday Once More a piece appealing for memories of Coney Street. The feature mentioned Leak & Thorp, the well-known York department store.
The doctor who ‘beat’ cholera
10:38am Friday 8th March 2013
Joseph Rowntree may be known throughout the world but, as MATT CLARK discovers, one of York’s unsung heroes did as much to improve the lot of millions
More history articles>>
Way we were
May 18
7:49am Saturday 18th May 2013
100 years ago: A teacher had written on the blackboard the sentence, “The toast was drank in silence,” and turning to the class asked them to point out the error.
May 17
10:42am Friday 17th May 2013
100 years ago: King George knew the full, tragic story of the British Antarctic expedition. He had heard from the lips of Commander Evans, who was received in audience at Buckingham Palace, the unpublished details of the great sacrifice of life to duty by Captain Scott, Captain Oates and their gallant comrades.
May 16
10:13am Thursday 16th May 2013
100 years ago :Benjamin Saintey, a signalman, had had a remarkable escape. He had been knocked down by an express train from Braintree at Witham Junction while crossing the line, and the train had run over him.
May 15
11:48am Wednesday 15th May 2013
100 years ago: Sutton Bank, one of the steepest hills on any main road in England, had been the scene of an alarming accident to a party of young lady cyclists.
May 14
10:42am Tuesday 14th May 2013
100 years ago: A number of Suffragists who were wanted by the authorities under the provisions of the so-called “Cat-and-Mouse” Act had not returned to prison after the expiry of their period of grace.
More way we were articles>>
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