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Beneath the surface of York's colourful past we delve into the detail of Vikings, Romans and Victorians...
A fond farewell to the Mallard
9:46am Monday 15th March 2010
WiHEN the National Railway Museum (NRM) announced the prize of its collection, the famous steam locomotive Mallard, would be leaving after 35 years, reaction was understandably mixed.
More postcards by Victorian artist Tom Guy
10:01am Monday 8th March 2010
TODAY we bring you more postcards by Victorian artist Tom Guy, who had studios in Stonegate from 1884 onwards.
Portrait of York artist Tom Guy
10:30am Monday 1st March 2010
DAVID Guy was never very interested in history, or in tracing his family roots. Not until his daughter, Carol, was leafing through an old family postcard album, that is and found that some of them had been painted by a T Guy.
1,800-year-old Roman marble carving of the god Jupiter found at Fountains Abbey
9:35am Thursday 25th February 2010
A LONG-LOST Roman bust has turned up in North Yorkshire.
York's rugby league past
9:28am Monday 22nd February 2010
A treat for rugby league fans this week. We have managed to dig out, from The Press’s online archive, some wonderful old photographs from the city’s rugby league past.
Youngsters take part in Jorvik Viking Festival activities
12:44pm Tuesday 16th February 2010
THESE youngsters had a go with children’s sword-fighting as part of the Jorvik Viking Festival.
Horse-drawn and electric trams in York
10:26am Monday 15th February 2010
YORK has long been popular with sightseers. Many of today’s visitors opt to take a trip on an open-topped bus. But the modern vehicles have nothing on these beauties.
Youngsters prepare for Viking festival
11:45am Friday 12th February 2010
The 25th Jorvik Viking Festival will feature an activity-packed programme for children during half-term next week.
The Ouse in York: a working river
10:01am Monday 8th February 2010
TODAY, the River Ouse through York is something of a “playboy” waterway.
Remembering Betty's Bar in York during the Second World War
9:41am Monday 25th January 2010
THINK of Bettys and a genteel afternoon spent devouring cream cakes and sipping tea springs to mind.
More satirical postcards from York
10:57am Monday 18th January 2010
Two weeks ago, we reproduced a number of satirical postcards from the collection of Chris Moorey, whose great uncle Henry Gilbertson ran the stationers and newsagent in Fishergate from the Edwardian period right up to the 1940s.
Artefacts selected to outline history of North Yorkshire
8:05am Monday 18th January 2010
AN ANGLO-SAXON helmet, a Viking arm ring and a Second World War Halifax Bomber are just some of the artefacts that tell the story of North Yorkshire’s history, according to a new project.
Looking back at hard winters in York
11:01am Monday 11th January 2010
WHENEVER we get a hard winter, we always imagine it is one of the worst ever. “The longest cold snap for 20 years!” we exclaim. Or: “The worst blizzards for 40 years.”
Satirical postcards printed in York
9:57am Monday 4th January 2010
LONG before The Sun newspaper had coined the term “our boys” to refer to the men (and conveniently forgetting the women) of our armed forces, there was a perfectly good nickname around.
Stillingfleet Chroniclers present roll of former vicars to church
8:16am Tuesday 29th December 2009
A VILLAGE history group, the Stillingfleet Chroniclers, have presented a roll of former vicars to the village church.
The venerable ruins of St Mary’s Abbey in Museum Gardens
10:42am Monday 28th December 2009
VISITORS to the Museum Gardens are used to a peaceful scene: the venerable ruins of St Mary’s Abbey rising from a sward of emerald green grass.
Swaledale Tournament Of Song Shield found
11:03am Monday 28th December 2009
MUSICIANS and history lovers are in a quest to rediscover part of North Yorkshire’s musical past after the discovery of a shield in the Vale of York.
Our review, in pictures, of the year 1909
12:48pm Monday 21st December 2009
As the decade draws to a close, newspapers everywhere are looking back at how The Noughties changed things.
Memories of the county of Yorkshire
10:30am Monday 14th December 2009
WE return today to Roly Smith’s splendid book, Yorkshire County Memories.
14th century coin unearthed at Hungate dig at York
11:11am Saturday 12th December 2009
AN AMATEUR archaeologist has struck gold while excavating a former medieval rubbish dump on a city centre dig in York.
History of Huntington School
10:00am Monday 7th December 2009
BACK in 1877, when Huntington Board School first opened, education was still pretty much a hit-and-miss affair.
Terry's of York during the Second World War
2:47pm Monday 30th November 2009
Amateur Dramatics was big at Terry’s in the 1930s – as it was at the chocolate factory’s rival, Rowntrees.
Terry's of York in the early 20th century
10:32am Monday 23rd November 2009
Last week, we followed the history of Terry’s up to the death of Sir Joseph Terry II in 1898. This week, again with the help of York oral historian Van Wilson’s marvellous The Story Of Terry’s, we reach the early 20th century.
Reader’s old postcard plea
1:59pm Wednesday 18th November 2009
READERS of The Press are being asked to help provide information on this old postcard, which shows a military parade through York in the early part of last century.
The early history of Terry's of York
11:17am Monday 16th November 2009
It was the year 1767. King George III was on the throne, the legal campaign against slavery was beginning, James Watt was inventing a condenser for the steam engine, and Captain Cook was planning his first voyage to the Antipodes in the Endeavour.
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