From our archives:

85 years ago

A system of television by wireless developed by Research Engineers of the Marconi Company was demonstrated for the first time during a meeting of the British Association in York.

Television images were transmitted by wireless from the Marconi Works, Chelmsford, to St Peter’s School, York, a distance of 180 miles, on a wavelength of 750 metres.

The demonstration which took the novel form of sending verbal messages from characters printed on a moving tape, then passed through the transmitter at Chelmsford at speeds corresponding to 60 words per minute and more.

The words were read like a moving sign on a ground glass screen in the receiver at York.

And the national Treasury had ordered a new controversial tariff imposing additional duties on the following commodities: Leather gloves, screws for wood, scissors, hair combs, and lined strawboard.

50 years ago

After the theft of 26 Oxford cross lambs from a field near Lund, Malton police had now reported that 30 five-month-old Suffolk cross lambs had been stolen from a field between Hovingham and Stonegrave.

Police were therefore keeping a watch on all livestock markets in the area and had asked any pedestrian or passing motorist who may have seen anything suspicious near the field between Hovingham and Stonegrave to report it to them immediately.

Mr Ralph Hemingway had become Postmaster at Thirsk, where he started hid GPO career as a sorting clerk almost 36 years ago.

Apart from a period as a signalman in the Army, from March 1942 to November, 1946, Mr Hemingway had served the whole of his Post Office career at Thirsk.

And it was a double day celebration for Miss Barbara Fratson, of Finsbury Street, Bishopthorpe Road, York, as she prepared to get married on her 20th birthday.

20 years ago

BHS York store was open as normal despite some floors being partially closed to customers after overnight rain flooded parts of the building.

Staff cordoned off the menswear and womenswear areas and directed customers to the first floor.

Britain’s television stars were paying their own tributes to Diana, Princess of Wales.

Speaking at the TVQuick Awards at the Grosvenor House Hotel in London, Game On actress Samantha Janus said she would be at the Princess’s funeral and children’s presenter Zoe Ball had cancelled a weekend away to watch the occasion on television.