From our archives:

85 years ago

Two thousand people attended a 15 hour continuous carnival which was held on the Bridlington Spa.

The festivals programme which started at 10am and continued until the following morning, had entertained the masses with novel competitions, such as the popular milk drinking competition for gentlemen.

The main attraction was still however the selection of the Bridlington Carnival Queen.

Bathers and sand parties at Bridlington were being annoyed by a plague of flies which had arrived in the millions after the storms.

Thousands of racegoers, mostly from Yorkshire, saw a thrilling finish for the Ebor Handicap, when Gordon Richards led his horse Cat o’ Nine Tails in front to beat the dead-heaters, Pickle and Sans Espoir.

Richards’s race definitely was the feature of the day for the famous jockey who had already ridden three past winners.

50 years ago

BBC Television had turned the spotlight on the younger generation with an eight-strong film crew which had been following the work of the York Youth Action and its projects.

First port of call for the film unit was the Enterprise Club in Walmgate, where 60 volunteers danced to the local beat group, The Grid.

An organised gang of copper thieves in the Thirsk district had got away with big hauls of copper cable and tubing worth about £1,000 in four raids in recent weeks.

And motorists going over Aldwark’s toll bridge, near Boroughbridge, faced an unusual start to the morning after being stopped by a gate across the road which looked like a line of washing.

It was in fact, just a rope with a towel attached in the centre, which had been placed there to remind people to stop because someone had removed the heavy wooden gate the night before.

20 years ago

The traditional Bank Holiday downpour had once again washed out a whole day of the Yorkshire Air Spectacular at Elvington.

Low cloud and constant rain meant the organisers had to call a halt to the scheduled Red Arrows display for safety reasons.

And snooker fan Ada Heward, of Birchlands Nursing Home, Haxby, was celebrating her 100th birthday.

Ada, who had lived in Poppleton all her life, was a huge follower of horse racing and snooker and watched it every day on television.