From our archives:

85 years ago

The Duke and Duchess of York had completed a two-day tour of Clydeside.

During their visit to Glasgow the royals took in a tour of the James Templeton Company, where several thousand employees were engaged in weaving carpets.

Shortly after the Duchess accepted a gift of two stools made by female inmates from the Royal Deaf Institute.

Miss Joyce Wethered, the “queen” of yesteryear in women’s championship golf, was still dominating the leader boards with six wins in 12 years in the mixed foursomes tournament.

It was great news for Richmond after Councillor Mrs Hodgson announced she had accepted the role of Mayor for the following year.

And the Yorkshire Herald reported on the state of cattle prices at York market, noting that the butchers were sympathising with the farmers as prices had never been so low in the last 50 years.

50 years ago

For motorists and publicans it was “breathalyser weekend” the first real test of Mrs Castle’s Road Safety Act.

So far motoring organisations as well as the publicans’ trade bodies, said there had been no real evidence to go on, that the introduction of the breathalyser was making a difference on the regular pub goer.

Mrs Castle was quoted as saying Britain’s pubs would have to cater for a different kind of social life, with soft drinks for the driving member of any party.

Nearly 1,400 children from primary schools in the North Riding were now able to learn to swim thanks to a new £50,000 swimming pool, which opened at New Earswick.

A gift from the Joseph Rowntree Memorial Trust, the pool was to provide facilities for New Earswick Primary School pupils, and children from three local secondary schools, Joseph Rowntree, Canon Lee and Huntington.

20 years ago

Heartbeat heart-throb PC Nick Rowan, alias Nick Berry, bid a fond farewell to the region after plodding his Goathland best for the last time.

North Yorkshire’s favourite policeman climbed aboard a vintage train with his on-screen family before steaming off camera and out of the 1960s-set Yorkshire TV series for good.

Dejected parents at Canon Lee School vowed to take their campaign to the Secretary of State for Education after York chiefs decided their school should be merged with Queen Anne.

And York Minster was once again a film set, this time being transformed to resemble Westminster Abbey for the Coronation scenes in the movie Elizabeth I.