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Beneath the surface of York's colourful past we delve into the detail of Vikings, Romans and Victorians...
Clues to North Yorkshire heritage published
8:05am Wednesday 8th February 2012
NEW clues to the history of North Yorkshire have been published on the internet after they were unearthed by local archaeology groups.
Holgate Windmill history talk
8:21am Tuesday 7th February 2012
PEOPLE who want to find out more about Holgate Windmill are being invited to a public talk in its history and the background to its restoration.
Memories of a Blue Coat boy
11:34am Monday 6th February 2012
IT is a timeless photograph, one that has something of Oliver Twist about it. Four small urchins, smartly dressed in their Sunday best, stand in front of a tall, dignified figure in ceremonial robes.
Keeping it all on track
11:37am Monday 30th January 2012
LAST week we brought you a selection of old glass plate photographs of York and the surrounding area, dating from about 1906, which had been taken by a Mr Rowley and had come into the possession of railwayman Ernest Sanderson.
100 years of change
12:04pm Monday 23rd January 2012
ERNEST Sanderson was a railwayman through and through. The son of a crossing keeper, he was born in 1912 in York’s Leeman Road area – home to many railway families. He worked on the railways for 50 years, as a track relayer and renewer, retiring in 1977.
Viking king discovery claims
8:34am Monday 23rd January 2012
AN amateur historian from Yorkshire claims to have discovered a new Viking king of York.
Journey back in time
11:08am Monday 16th January 2012
MORE images from old York taken from the wonderful Evelyn collection today, courtesy once again of local historian Paul Chrystal’s new book, In & Around York District Through Time.
Old Manor CE School photos uncovered
8:17am Friday 13th January 2012
MEMORIES of bygone days have been unearthed by staff at a York school who are busy compiling a book for its 200th anniversary.
Archaeologists get £1m funding boost to carry out research at Stone Age site
7:46am Tuesday 10th January 2012
ARCHAEOLOGISTS have secured more than £1 million in funding to delve deeper into the history of Britain’s earliest surviving house discovered in North Yorkshire.
Window to York’s past
11:24am Monday 9th January 2012
On January 19, 1891, a 30-year-old doctor stepped off the train from London at York Station. Dr William Arthur Evelyn had come to York to be a partner at a GP practice in Museum Street.
Living in the past
10:37am Monday 2nd January 2012
More glimpses of a vanished York this week, to help you usher in the New Year.
Historic papers put online
9:17am Monday 2nd January 2012
Historic documents recording the proceedings of ecclesiastical courts of York from 1300 to 1858 have been made available online.
Volunteers help collect fragments from Fairfax House artefacts
8:02am Saturday 31st December 2011
WORK taking place at an historic house in York gives an insight into how meticulous conservation projects must be to preserve our past.
Early altered images
10:48am Monday 26th December 2011
TAKE a long look at our main photograph today... and then look again. No, your eyes aren’t deceiving you. It really is the River Ouse, with the distinctive shape of the Guildhall backing onto the river and, on the left of the photo, Lendal Tower.
Star Carr site preserved
8:01am Wednesday 21st December 2011
THE North Yorkshire site of the country’s oldest surviving house has been given a listing to help preserve it for future generations.
Harbour delights in Edwardians times
10:34am Monday 19th December 2011
MORE scenes of old Scarborough today, courtesy of Mike Hitches’ wonderful new book Scarborough Through Time – starting with the harbour.
Beside the seaside
11:58am Monday 12th December 2011
SCARBOROUGH holds a special place in our affections: the perfect Yorkshire seaside town, with its picturesque beaches, seafront, harbour, and stalls selling cockles and mussels – not to mention fish and chips.
Yorkshire Film Archive - putting the past in motion
12:25pm Monday 5th December 2011
The Yorkshire Film Archive holds more than six million feet of film – remarkable moving images of Yorkshire’s history. Thanks to its revamped website, much of this material is now more accessible than ever. STEPHEN LEWIS reports.
Book that draws a Vale
12:11pm Monday 5th December 2011
THE Vale of York, the Biblical scholar Chevalier Bunsen once wrote, is the “most beautiful and romantic vale in the world” – before spoiling it slightly by adding “the Vale of Normandy excepted.”
The essence of Yorkshire
10:48am Monday 28th November 2011
THE Flamborough “climmers” were a hardy breed: just take a quick look at our main photograph today if you doubt that.
Book reveals history of Wigginton house
10:12am Monday 21st November 2011
IN 1912, Gillygate butcher John Gates had a fine house built in Wigginton. Sunnyside, as he called it, was an imposing building at the top of a slight rise in the village main street. It cost the princely sum of £280 3s and 2d.
Rowntree’s remarkable film archive on show at City Screen
8:08am Saturday 19th November 2011
A SELL-OUT audience at York’s City Screen cinema will see some remarkable films showing scenes from the city’s Rowntree heritage next week.
Yorkshire windmills through time
10:57am Monday 14th November 2011
FEW buildings stir the blood in quite the way a good old-fashioned windmill does.
Always in our hearts
10:11am Monday 7th November 2011
ON a Thursday in the autumn of 1942, a young gunnery sergeant sat down in Hull to write a letter to his wife in York.
York places of learning through time
10:46am Monday 31st October 2011
THERE are few things teachers like more than when pupils show genuine interest in their studies. But sometimes enthusiasm can go that bit too far...
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WAY WE WERE
February 8
7:20am Wednesday 8th February 2012
100 years ago: At a meeting of the Scarborough Board of Guardians, Mr Plaxton mentioned that the previous week it had been reported that the workhouse was practically full, and he was afraid they would have to turn the board-room into a dormitory.
February 7
12:10pm Tuesday 7th February 2012
100 years ago: Throughout the English-speaking world the centenary of Dickens’ birth was being celebrated on a most elaborate scale, testifying to the remarkable hold which the novelist had on the great body of the reading public.
February 6
11:28am Monday 6th February 2012
100 years ago: What was asserted to be the carpenter’s workshop of Joseph had been discovered at Nazareth.
February 4
7:10am Saturday 4th February 2012
100 years ago: A shocking tragedy had occurred at the Eiffel Tower.
February 3
7:10am Friday 3rd February 2012
100 years ago: There had been wild scenes at Filey Bay when in a perfect blizzard of snow and hail the lifeboat was dragged by hand half a mile from her house and launched in a terrific sea to the aid of the local yawl Wayside Flower.
More way we were articles>>
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