From our archives:

85 years ago

The wedding of Mr John Henry Harrison Broadley to Miss Cicely Joan Whitworth took place at the beautiful Pocklington Parish Church.

The beauty of the wedding setting was enhanced by the presence of the Huntsman and Hunt servants of the Holderness Hunt, wearing pink coats they formed a guard of honour.

This was rather fitting as both bride and bridegroom were members of well-known Yorkshire families, who had invested interests in sport and social activities.

Drama competitions for the Yorkshire County Federation of Women’s Institutes were to be continued in the Rowntree Theatre, York, with productions reaching a high standard.

The morning programme began with the Marton-in-Cleveland player, then a novice team from Eston and Normanby were next on the list.

The Scruton players were however faced with a certain difficulty in having to follow with the same play.

50 years ago

Eighteen tornadoes scourged a large area of America’s Mid-West, killing more than 100 people in Northern Illinois.

Scores of children were missing and feared dead.

Buses were lifted and hurled against buildings, and hundreds of homes were destroyed.

Worst hit areas were three suburbs of Chicago which looked as if an atom bomb had hit them.

In York the Archbishop Dr Donald Coggan pulled back a Union Jack to unveil a tablet which had been laid between the paving stones of the city’s new £8,000 riverside walk.

The quarter-mile walk, from Lendal Bridge to Scarborough Bridge, had been restored in a joint venture by York Civic Trust, and the Joseph Rowntree Memorial Trust.

20 years ago

Danish schoolchildren paid a visit to York on a fact-finding mission to see how the city promoted safer routes to schools.

Fifteen children from Huntington School and Burnholme Community College took part in a successful week-long exchange with Munkebjergskolen School in Odense.

Another success story was St Peter’s Boys’ Club in Norton which was proving to be so popular, that they had to start a waiting list.

Club leader David Lester said the club had just taken off.

“It began in 1981 when I began organising a few games of football,” he said.

“By the end of 1996 we had 40 members but that has now risen to 60.”

And thieves had escaped with almost £30,000 of designer menswear from Fenwicks department store, Coppergate, York, in a dawn raid.