From our archives:

85 years ago

Bernard Shaw’s new play “Too true to be good” was presented for the first time in England at Malvern Theatre.

Critics from British and foreign newspapers were taken to Worcestershire in a 30-seater Imperial Airways’ machine to an aerodrome 30 miles from Malvern.

Boards had been erected early morning to inform the population that the critics were arriving by air.

Unfortunately the bad weather spoiled any pleasure that might have been derived from the journey, as it caused a delay in the voyage for the impatient journalists.

York flower market was plentiful in supply.

Sweet peas and marguerites were in huge demand as well as coreopsis and gypsophila.

And five public houses in York including Acomb Working Men’s Club had been granted extension of hours during the York Races.

50 years ago

York was booming as the No 1 tourist spot of Yorkshire.

The city was having more visitors that year than ever before.

And it seemed to be foreign tourists, particularly Scandinavians, who were making all the difference.

The Gothenburg to Hull and Immingham roll-on roll-off ferries were bringing Swedes by the hundred to York.

What was believed to be the original tomb of Walter de Grey, an Archbishop of York in the 13th century, was unearthed in the York Minster excavations.

The empty tomb was found at a point only a few yards away from the spot where Archbishop de Grey was probably re-buried in the 15th century.

Describing the discovery as “an important find,” Mr Ramm also added that the plaster work on the inside of the rubble-filled tomb indicated that it was made in the 1300s.

20 years ago

Brick-wielding vandals had struck again at a Rider York bus, smashing a door and window as the vehicle drove through a Clifton council estate.

No-one was injured in the attack, which had caused £2,000 worth of damage.

Jurors in a match-fixing trial began their fifth day in their search for verdicts.

Footballers Bruce Grobbelaar, John Fashanu and Hans Segers denied conspiring to give and accept corrupt payments.

Enormous amphibians had put a York builder’s plans of demolishing a barn and building a new house in Strensall on hold, because the site currently housed a colony of newts.

Strict restrictions had to therefore be put in place which included an amphibian fence.