From our archives:

85 years ago

A fancy-dress dance organised by the Walmgate Ward Women’s Conservative Association attracted an attendance of about 300 to the Rialto Ballroom, York.

The success of the effort indicated that the Association was now a virile section of the Women’s Conservative movement in the city.

From beginning to end the effort went with a happy swing, and the fancy dress parade was featured by some of the most original costumes seen in York for some time.

The “Yorkshire Herald” reported that the York Electricity Generating Station was now up running and fully working to the instructions of the Grid.

The Generating Station which was working the customary three shifts to generate all the current that York required, would in due course be required to drop to only two shifts.

50 years ago

A record number of more than 6,000 people visited a model railway show at the Museums Rooms, York.

Mr Cook, one of the organisers, said: “I am very grateful to the 100 helpers who worked as a team and to our record attendance.”

York City Baths Club celebrated another successful year with their annual dinner at the Merchant Taylors’ Hall, where they also received the Harold Fern Trophy, awarded to the club whose women’s team scored the most points at the national championships.

This was the first time the trophy had been won by a club outside London.

A few patches of ice did not stop the second of York University’s car trials taking place.

The trials held on the University car park and organised by the Staff Social Club’s Motor Club was only slightly affected by a slippery surface as the competitors enjoyed sliding around the obstacles.

20 years ago

In York, worshippers danced in the nave of York Minster in what was believed to be the first such event in 300 years as scores of people took part in a Sacred Circle Dance to celebrate the Epiphany, the festival marking the visit of the Three Kings to baby Jesus.

And one of the most haunting reminders of the Holocaust was projected on to Clifford’s Tower.

A huge photograph of Anne Frank, whose diaries catalogued the horrors of anti-Semitism, lit up one side of the tower which itself had witnessed the massacre of 150 Jews 800 years ago.