From our archives:

85 years ago

St Lawrence’s Church, York, held its second day of the church bazaar.

Opening the proceedings was special guest Mr G Lloyd, from Stockton Hall, who had congratulated the organisers on the success of the first day’s proceedings £98, a slight decrease on the previous year.

Referring to the standard of items for sale Mr Lloyd said he thought they were splendid things to have in one of York’s largest and poorest parishes.

In Selby improvements to the Olympia Company’s property on the East Riding side of the river had been completed.

A new section of road had given a good outlet to the Selby Sugar Factory, making it easier to transport sugar beet to and from the factory from various farms in the district.

Electric robot signals had also been installed to regulate the traffic through the sub-way under the LNER siding, to prevent any more problems.

50 years ago

Pictured in the Yorkshire Evening Press was fifty of York’s youngsters who had given up their Saturday leisure time to walk 20 miles around North Riding villages raising money for charity.

Starting from New Earswick Methodist Church, the youngsters from different church circuits in the Clifton and Monkgate area, set off with collecting boxes and literature to walk through Haxby, Flaxton, Stockton-on-the-Forest and back to New Earswick.

York University was yet to be seen on the present session of Granada’s University Challenge.

It was however no secret among the students that they had been beaten after a meeting of the Students Representative Council blamed the “haphazard and inefficient” team selection.

20 years ago

With cannons thundering triumphantly above joyful cheers of the crowd, the replica of Captain Cook’s Endeavour made its return voyage to Whitby.

Thousands of people lined the cliff tops and harbour walls as the £17 million vessel battled through choppy waters to make it safely into port.

And traffic was brought to a standstill at lunchtime by a young swan running along the A169 interchange.

A spokesman from Malton police said: “One of our sergeants managed to grab hold of the swan, calm it down and take it to the RSPCA.

“We understand it’s this time of the year when mother swans tell their babies to get out.

“Obviously this baby thought the A64 was a river.”