YOU really shouldn't be stuck indoors reading The Press today. It's a Bank Holiday - time to be out doing all the things we British traditionally do on these occasions: getting stuck in queues of traffic heading for Scarborough; messing about in boats on the River Ouse; getting sunburned in Museum Gardens; or complaining about the weather, if it's too bad be doing any things else.

We've been doing all these things for a century or more, as our photos in Yesterday Once More today reveal. They show...

Scarborough South Bay, probably summer 1890 (top). Not many bare midriffs or peeling shoulders on view here, admittedly, but then the Victorians were a more strait-laced bunch. But the bowler-hatted gents in the foreground do seem to be enjoying the view across the bay...

Enjoying the beach at Filey in 1910.

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Holidaymakers enjoying the beach at Filey in 1910

That's a bit more like it. Bathing costumes (if a bit more prim than those we'd sport today), buckets and spades and even tents to get changed in on show in this day out at the seaside.

The River King, one of the first and perhaps grandest of all York's riverboats

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The River King on the Ouse

Bought in 1901 by Captain Edward Grace of Goole and moored at King's Staith, the boat offered twice daily trips on weekdays and three trips on Sundays and general holidays, either upstream to Nun Monkton or downriver to Naburn Lock. It wasn't perhaps the cleanest and greenest of pleasure boats, as you can see from the thick smoke pouring from its funnel. But you can bet the passengers on board were enjoying their boat trip.

A day out from Scarborough by charabanc in 1924

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We don't know where they were going, but these employees from the Scarborough Co-operative store were clearly looking ahead to the day. Charabancs like this opened up the countryside for the first time to many ordinary English people.

A day in the park

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The photo of crowds enjoying a day out at Rowntree Park was taken some time between 1920 and 1940 - in the years between the wars, in other words.

Coach trip to Whitby, 1949

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The coach looks a little more sophisticated than the charabanc used for a similar day out a quarter of a century earlier - but the regulars from the New Inn, Selby, look equally pleased at the prospect of getting away for the day.

River cruise passengers, 1970s or 1980s

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A more modern version of the 'River King'. There's no date to the photograph, but it looks from the clothes as though it is probably late 1970s or 1980s.

Early intimations of summer

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A great 1982 photo by former Press photographer Jim Brownbill showing a riverboat on the Ouse with Terry's in the distance. There's a wonderfully moody, thundery-looking sky, which makes you think this might have been a bank holiday too...

The York Riviera, 1989

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Bare chests (and bellies) galore on show in this picture of blokes messing about on boats in York that looks as sundrenched as any Riviera scene...