From our archives:

85 years ago

Saturday was a day of shows at Tang Hall, York, and of the three held on different parts of the estate most interest had centred at the annual exhibition of the Tang Hall Estate Tenants’ and Allotments’ Association, which was opened by Lady Forster Todd.

Accompanied by Alderman Sir William Forster Todd, her opening speech had gone on to discuss the progressive suburb of the city and how well the allotment movement had gained in its popularity.

Tang Hall was also the venue for the first annual show of the Osbaldwick Labour Party, with its 23 competitors, and 110 exhibits.

In New York, 2,000 Sunday visitors had deserted the neighbouring beaches to run across the aviation field at the Roosevelt Aerodrome, Long Island, to greet the conqueror of the Atlantic, Jim Mollinson, as his little monoplane touched down on the landing strip.

50 years ago

Pictured on the front page of the Yorkshire Evening Press were several ways the residents of York were coping with the weather.

Jim Peacock, working on a building site in Davygate, was satisfied with a cool drink where as others took a more energetic way out by diving off Skeldergate Bridge into the Ouse.

It was good news in Selby as the latest figures had shown that most of the Selby pupils who had left school that summer had found jobs.

The latest count had shown that of the 80 boys and girls, only four boys and nine girls still had to be placed in employment.

And Thirsk Rural Council had decided, by a big majority, that the ban against public and press attending committee meetings should stand.

20 years ago

Extra police officers had been drafted in to York city centre in the early hours after a night of violence involving racegoers.

Police cars and vans constantly circled the Clifford street area near the Stakis Hotel and Silks nightclub from 11pm until revellers started making their way home after 2am.

Jockey Alex Greaves from Thirsk had struck a blow for equality by becoming the first woman to win a premier flat race at York… in a dead heat with a man.

But Alex, 29, who had become a professional jockey in 1989, shrugged off the glory modestly and said the success was down to the whole team at the stables of her trainer husband, David Nicholls.