From our archives:

85 years ago

One death and 57 cases revealed the serious nature of the Malton typhoid outbreak.

The first death, was that of Mr J W Pounder manager of the Malton Branch of the Midland Bank, who had died at his home in York Road, Malton.

Four more cases had been removed to York Isolation Hospital, and another 20 were being treated in their own homes.

Malton Urban Council, at a special meeting, had now decided to install a chlorination plant at Lady Well, the source of the town’s water supply which was thought to be the cause of the epidemic.

Audiences at the Co-operative Hall, York, enjoyed the York Settlement Community Players performance of Sean O’Casey’s play Juno and the Paycock.

Presentation was of its usual standard and the critics agreed that the members of the cast had adapted themselves very well to the Irish brogue of the play.

50 years ago

The six-week-old Merseyside docks strike was finally over after a meeting of 6,000 dockers in Liverpool had voted to return to work.

Although the majority of the dockers were in favour of ending the strike, there was still a large section of militants close to the speakers’ platform who were vociferous in their demands to stay out until they had won all their claims.

Norton’s handsome reconstructed swimming pool was formally opened by Councillor Gordon Taylor, chairman of the urban council.

During extensive alterations, costing £40,000, the former open-air pool had been roofed over and retiled.

And fifty Osbaldwick housewives had a ‘date’ with a millionaire, all at the same time.

But their husbands had no cause to be jealous because the millionaire Bradford industrialist Mr George Hopkinson, was not there in person.

Instead it was a bronze bust, created by farmer-turned-sculptor Mr R Webster of Ripon.

20 years ago

North Yorkshire’s country sports fraternity took to the streets to protest at plans to ban hunting.

Almost 100 supporters of hunting turned up in York’s Parliament Street to counter anti-hunt activists on board a double-decker campaign bus.

But the pro-hunters had received an immediate blow as York MP Hugh Bayley pledged his full support for next month’s Bill to ban hunting with dogs for sport.

And York stage and screen star Janet McTeer had won the Barclays Theatre Award for Best Actress for her tour-de-force performance as Nora Helmer in A Doll’s House.