From our archives:

85 years ago

York was feeling the loss of the noted bass singer Mr Walter Whiteway who had died after an operation for an appendicitis.

York Minster Choir reported that they had sustained a heavy loss, Cannon Harrison said “the choir of the cathedral had lost one of its sweetest singers”.

Astonishment had been caused throughout Germany by the action of the former Crown Prince, who had issued a manifesto urging electors to vote for Adolf Hitler in the second ballot of the Presidential election.

And York City Council met with the Corporation Transport Committee to discuss negotiations with the West Yorkshire Road Car Company over the City’s transport services.

The “Yorkshire Herald” understood that an amendment to take the whole matter out of the hands of the Transport Committee would be moved.

50 years ago

The 790 workers who had downed tools at Eggborough Power station were urging the remaining 1,600 members of staff to do the same.

At a mass site meeting, militant strikers called for an immediate inquiry into all the disputes which had plagued the £70m power station over a three year period.

A mystery explosion, presumably lightning, rocked the airliner which had taken the Burnley soccer team to West Germany.

“We all missed a few heartbeats,” said coach Jimmy Adamson.

All the team thankfully arrived in Frankfurt in one piece.

The Sheriff of York launched the first pre-school play group session at Acomb Community Centre.

All the equipment for the children aged three to school age had been given or made by parents, who had been working for nine months to establish the group.

20 years ago

A six-foot metal security fence had been installed on a troubled York housing estate Kingsway North after tenants complained that teenagers had been riding through their gardens on motorbikes.

Britain’s best-known Agony Aunt Marj Proops died leaving an estate valued over £1m.

Marjorie began work in journalism in 1939 at the Daily Mirror but joined the Daily Herald at the end of the war, then later returned in 1954, helping readers solve their emotional and sexual problems.

After many years of faithful service, the Evening Press bus headed into retirement.

The London Routemaster bus was due to spend its twilight years at Flamingo Land.