From our archives:

85 years ago

The Percy Hutchinson Repertory Players had selected the popular “Loose Ends” play by Dion Titherage to conclude their season at the Theatre Royal, York.

The dramatic piece that tells of how a famous actress runs over an unknown man with her car, and eventually falls in love with him, consisted of all the repertory favourites including Faith Liddle, Ruth Gower and Frederick Russell.

A report from the LNER stated that a pair of crutches left against a book stall at Skegness Station was still unclaimed.

Presumably the owner after a visit to Skegness had no need of artificial aids of locomotion.

In New York, reports were surfacing that scores of dead ironworkers had already been taken out of the East River after a ferryboat carrying some 200 workmen to Rikers Island had suddenly exploded and disappeared in a cloud of smoke.

50 years ago

Howsham, a small village near York where “it would be difficult to find a blade of grass out of place,” received an award for being the most spick-and-span village in the East Riding.

The village was pictured looking its immaculate best for a ceremony, held on the grass verge outside the old school.

It was smiles and tears for Norton’s triplets as they started a new school year.

For weeks their mother, Mrs Gregory, had been preparing for the big day as all three needed completely new outfits from head to toe.

The reaction of York City Football Club directors to a Sunday newspaper story that local ex-League referee Peter Rhodes planned to ask them to resign and, with four other persons not named, buy their shares and put £10,000 into the club for the signing of new players, was officially one of “no comment.”

20 years ago

More than 80 classic cars revved up and rolled out of Castle Howard for the start of the RAC’s Centenary Classic Car Run.

The drivers, including HRH Prince Michael of Kent in a 1931 Bentley Special, set off that morning on their way to Holyrood House, Edinburgh.

Scotland went to the polls to decide what could have been the biggest constitutional change for the country in 300 years.

When the polling booths opened, Scots were voting on whether to set up a new parliament in Edinburgh and whether it would have tax-varying powers.