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           <description><![CDATA[100 years ago: For the coming Whitsuntide holidays Messrs Thomas Cook and Son offered to the residents of York and district a very comprehensive programme of cheap travelling facilities.]]></description>
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           <description><![CDATA[100 years ago: We understood that the new motor fire engine which Messrs Rowntree's had recently purchased from the well-known firm of Messrs Merryweather, London, was shortly due to arrive in York.]]></description>
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100 years ago: The North Eastern Railway Company had just issued a new design of headgear for assistant stationmasters throughout their system.]]></description>
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           <description><![CDATA[100 years ago: Within the previous few days that interesting and picturesque landmark so familiar to tourists and travellers through the Vale of York - the White Horse, Kilburn - had been undergoing the process of spring cleaning, an operation carried out annually in order to preserve this unique and wonderful monument of man's ingenuity from the devastating ravages of time.]]></description>
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           <description><![CDATA[100 years ago: An impressive scene had been witnessed at Colne, Lancashire, when probably the largest crowd ever gathered together in the ancient town assembled to do honour to the memory of one of Britain's heroes, Wallace Hartley, the leader of that gallant band of the ill-fated Titanic, who, when all earthly hope had been abandoned, went to their deaths playing that beautiful hymn, “Nearer, my God, to Thee.”]]></description>
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           <description><![CDATA[100 years ago: For the next month the sea cliffs fringing the northern boundary of Bridlington Bay would be systematically searched, inch by inch, by the rugged cliff climbers of Bempton and Buckton for fragile treasures - the eggs of the guillemot, the puffin, the kittiwake, the razorbill, and that infinite variety of sea-birds which the unversed in ornithology conveniently classified as “seagulls.”]]></description>
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           <description><![CDATA[100 years ago: The new pavilion erected on the bowling green of the Knavesmire Bowling Club at Fulford by Mr W Parkin, the President of the Club, had been formally opened by Mr ET Dunn, previous President of the Club.]]></description>
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           <description><![CDATA[100 years ago: If some Americans could have had their way they would have made the life of a bachelor anything but one of pleasure.]]></description>
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A meeting of the York branch of the Women's Social and Political Union had been held in the Assembly Rooms on Saturday afternoon.]]></description>
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           <description><![CDATA[100 years ago: 
At the Scarborough Police Court, William Burnett, aged 26, labourer, was charged with stealing from a shed in Seamer Road, a gyro pigeon and trap, valued at 15s, the property of Frank Davison.]]></description>
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