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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Focusing on Davygate’s past

11:42am Monday 8th April 2013

MORE pictures of old York this week courtesy of local historian Hugh Murray.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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

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