100 years ago

It was now the time for the little man with a big heart to do something for his country, the War Office having reduced the height standard of recruits for certain regiments to 5ft 1 inch.

The age remained the same, 19 to 38, and the chest measurement, 34 inch, was also the same. Bantams could enlist for immediate service in the local regiments, the West Yorkshire’s and the East Yorkshire’s, the Northumberland Fusiliers, the West Ridings, the King’s Own Yorkshire Light Infantry and many other infantry regiments.

 

50 years ago

A York woman, who admitted that she did not know anything about beat, had raised £75 - with a beat concert.

Miss R Cheetham, secretary of the York branch of the Frankie Vaughan Fan Club, had promoted a concert at the Mecca Casino featuring eight leading local groups. Proceeds of the concert, which was attended by about 500 were to go to Keystone Cops Boys’ Club funds. The Keystone was the symbol of the National Association of Boys’ Club and a group of prominent men, who had got together in 1959 to give practical help to the movement, went under the collective name of the Keystone Cops

 

25 years ago

The National Railway Museum in York planned to double its exhibition space to allow the public to see more of its rich collection.

It would shortly take the first step when it opened The Great Railway Show in the former York goods depot opposite the original museum in Leeman Road. On April 1, work would start on repairing the roof of the main hall, which was suffering from severe concrete corrosion.

The long-term aim was to re-open the main hall in about two years and to keep the goods depot, known as the Peter Allen Building, open as well.