100 years ago

SIDNEY A Smith, Hon Secretary of York Traders’ Association and York Ratepayers’ Association, York, wrote: “In your impression of Saturday there is a notice to the effect that the River Ouse will be lowered four feet below summer level on Whit Sunday and Monday.

Surely this is an oversight on the part of the Ouse Navigation Committee. I wonder what the pleasure-boat proprietors think of the matter? To draw the water as suggested will, to all intents and purposes, ruin their business on two of the best boating days of the year.”

 

50 years ago

YORK’S link with Munster went back - “not without intermissions” - to the year 767, said Sir Frank Roberts, British Ambassador to West Germany. He was opening a two-day Congress of linked local authorities in Duisburg. Quoting examples of the antiquity of links between English and German cities, the ambassador said: “It can justly be claimed that the link between Munster and York goes back - though not without intermissions - to the year 767,” when a German monk studied in York under Alcuin.

 

25 years ago

UP to 500 jobs were riding on York’s newest superstore. Tesco said its Tadcaster Road development would be one of the largest in the north. It would cover a massive 93,400 sq ft and include its own restaurant, petrol station and tourist information centre.

Work on the multimillion-pound project would start in the summer if council chiefs gave it the final go-ahead. A planning application for the store had just been submitted to the city council, almost a year after angry residents attacked the outline application.

Tesco, which had paid York City Council £16 million for the prestige site in a controversial deal the previous year, said it would bring between 400 and 500 new jobs.