From our archives:

85 years ago

The railway travelling public would soon miss a familiar figure in the Yorkshire district as Mr Christopher Moody, a well-known travelling ticket inspector on the LNER at York, hung up his hat for the last time.

Mr Moody had held the post for the last 30 years, travelling hundreds of thousands of miles and recovering excess fares to the value of thousands of pounds.

News from Berlin reported that the German airship Graf Zeppelin, had landed at her base at Friedrichshafen at 4.37pm that afternoon on her return from South America.

This was the airship’s 13th crossing of the Atlantic, the trip had been uneventful and had ran strictly to time.

A date of Easter Monday had been set for a ball at Easingwold Town hall, to raise funds for repairing a fence around the Easingwold War Memorial.

50 years ago

Three men were injured when a gas pipe burst during welding work at Eggborough power station, near Selby.

All three men were taken to Pontefract Infirmary, and their condition had been reported as “quite satisfactory”.

PC Harry Ellwood celebrated 27 years with the police force during a celebration at the Three Cups Hotel, Stamford Bridge, where he was presented with a chandelier for his service.

The residents of York, had only limited time to take a long last look of the auditorium of the doomed Tower Cinema in New Street.

By the end of the day the ticket notice would be the only reminder that the building was ever a picture house, as it was due to become an arcade.

20 years ago

Channel 5 took to the air with a spicy start, bursting on to our TV screens with a performance from the Spice Girls.

According to the station thousands of people had jammed its phone lines to voice their support even though nearly half the UK could not tune in due to reception issues.

Young voters were wooed by York MP Hugh Bayley when the Labour campaign took to the city centre streets.

Mr Bayley spoke to his young audience at a stall in Parliament Street run by York “Young Labour” members.

And firefighters called to tackle a warehouse fire in New Street, Pocklington, were not needed after all.

The fire was only a pile of rubbish at a disused garage and had already been distinguished using a bucket of water.