100 years ago

IT WAS stated that the programme for the forthcoming Fleet exercises of the Home Fleet, which were to take place the following month in the North Sea, would incidentally include the visit of a strong Battle Squadron to Scarborough at or about Whitsuntide.

The battleships would consist entirely of Dreadnoughts and super-Dreadnoughts, with the exception of the pre-Dreadnought battleship Lord Nelson. The Battle Squadron would be accompanied by its attendant cruisers and scouts, and seaplanes would also be in attendance.

In addition to the heavy-armoured ships there would be a large gathering of light cruisers and destroyers off the Yorkshire coast about the same time, with the Humber as the base.


50 years ago

A MRS Hughes wrote: “The council may have solved part of its parking problem by moving the market. I also accept the market being smaller, but this is ridiculous. What about mothers with perambulators who can’t get baby sitters and have to take them into this small market?

“I found it very hard to do any shopping at all; every attempt I made to stop at a stall found me in trouble. Shoppers (because of the limited space) couldn’t get by and so I had to keep on moving. By the time I’d got out of the crowd it was the end of the market and of course no shopping done. Mine was only a small pram; goodness knows how mothers managed to get through with big prams.”


25 years ago

THE Yorkshire Evening Press had taken the premier honour at the Yorkshire Television Press and Publicity Awards 1989 by winning the Newspaper of the Year title for leading the campaign against the Rowntree takeover.

A panel of illustrious newspaper and television executives praised the Evening Press for its outstanding coverage and leadership over the Swiss bid for the York-based confectionery giant.

Editor Richard Wooldridge picked up the prize, which was announced by ITN newsreader Sir Alastair Burnett. “It is a great honour for the Evening Press and for its dedicated and hard-working staff but, in a sense, it is also an honour for York,” said Mr Wooldridge.

“The campaign owed much of its strength to the extraordinary community spirit which makes York the very special place that it is.”

The award capped a marvellous spring 1989 for the Evening Press, Yorkshire’s fastest-growing daily newspaper.

The previous month had scooped a coveted Newspaper Society award for the largest circulation rise of an evening newspaper of our size – anywhere in the country.