From our archives:

85 years ago

More than 2,000 people attended the first of a series of carnivals which were held on the Spa, Bridlington.

Nineteen events were included in the programme, and the crowds enjoyed one of the finest days of the year.

Among the novel competitions were those for the ugliest man, the most miserable man and the woman with the loveliest eyes all of which were judged by the audience.

It was positive news for Selby as the Urban Council announced that 24 of the 28 new Council houses recently built were now occupied.

However 300 additional houses were still required to fill the quota demanded by the Ministry of Health.

Increased temperatures had been recorded in most parts of the country, owing to an anti-cyclone over the Atlantic.

The temperature recorded in York was 80 degrees in the shade.

50 years ago

Pictured on the front page of the Yorkshire Evening Press was York’s youngest grandma at the age of 34.

“I’ve heard of other young grandmothers but not one as young as me in York,” she said.

“I’m dying to find out if I am the youngest."

Work was now complete on the new indoor swimming pool being built behind the Folk Hall, New Earswick, for the Joseph Rowntree Memorial Trust.

The 60 by 30 ft heated pool, began in December 1966 and was scheduled for completion on August 26.

All major building work was now finished, and workmen were laying the last tiles round the edge of the pool ready for testing the chlorination and filtration systems.

Structural work on a new five-storey commercial block at York Central College in Dringhouses was now half way to completion with contractors on the site hoping to finish by November.

20 years ago

Scarborough, renowned for its bevy of centenarians, had seen a second resident reach 105 within weeks.

One-time teacher Isobel Grassam was convinced she couldn’t be that old. “I know I’ve lived to be an old age but not that old!”.

Thieves had broken into The Marcia pub in Bishopthorpe, York, and made off with up to £300 in cash and a bouncy castle.

The fully-inflated castle was taken from the beer garden of the pub, and two fruit machines inside were forced open.

And nimble-fingered volunteers at Ryedale Folk Museum took part in a record-breaking attempt to create Yorkshire’s biggest rag rug at the Hutton-le-Hole venue.