From our archives:

85 years ago

Several lots of property in York were up for sale at the estate sale rooms, Melrose House.

With a large attendance the residents of York were clearly keen to bag themselves a hot property.

Up for first bidding was 84 Scarcroft Road, with bids starting at £300 and advancing to a whopping £610.

And Mr Chamberlain, speaking from the House of Commons, announced the Government’s plan for the conversion of the War Loan.

With nearly three million people holding a War Loan, the Government reported that it intended to repay the loan in cash on December 1.

The Government now had the gigantic task of printing 15 million forms and dispatching them by post in nearly three million envelopes in 24 hours.

50 years ago

A stained glass window in York Minster’s west tower had been smashed after someone broke into the building.

Detectives investigating the theft of money from two of the Minster offertory boxes said the thief got in by climbing the scaffolding, breaking the window, and lowering himself 20ft to the ground by a rope.

Pictured in the York Press was Harold Wilson raising a glass to Ken Dodd one of his constituents, when he and Mrs Wilson visited the star’s dressing room during a performance of Doddy’s Here Again at the London Palladium.

In Rawcliffe Lord Masham, chairman of the North Riding County Council’s primary education sub-committee, formally opened the new £50,000 Rawcliffe County Primary School.

In doing so, he suggested a project for the children to study - the history of horse-racing on Clifton Ings.

And £30,000 spectators queued all night at Wimbledon for the final day of the first week.

20 years ago

Students were under doctor’s orders at the Higher Education and Careers Forum at York University after TV botanist and academic, David Bellamy, dropped in to open the event attracting more than 3,000 students.

A Selby school had launched the area’s first homework club.

Pupils in years 7, 8 and 9 at Selby High now could return to the classroom immediately after school finishes to complete their homework with the help of volunteer teachers and Selby’s dustbin men didn’t allow the summer downpours to put a dampener on their celebrations after winning a new refuse collection and street cleansing contract that secured their jobs for the next six years.