From our archives:

80 years ago

York’s £191,500 sewage scheme had been brought to the attention of the town Council during a meeting at York’s Guildhall. Presenting the Council’s case for the new sewage disposal units in Naburn and Fulford, was the Town Clerk Mr R Anderson, who had stated that the present works constructed in 1895 were not fulfilling the desired purpose and the area from which the sewage was drained into the works was increasing. In Poppleton, a large audience had attended the monthly meeting of the Women’s Institute, at Dodsworth School, to hear a psychological lecture by Mrs Butterfield on “how to help children grow up.” And despite the heavy rain, a large crowd had gathered on the river front at Goole to see the launch of Sir Malcolm Campbell’s new twin-crew yacht Bluebird.

50 years ago

The Queen had attended a reception in London’s Guildhall to mark the founding of the Press Association in June 1868. As Directors of the Association were presented to the Queen, representing the Yorkshire Herald was the general manager and director A J Bradbury, and editor-in-chief Mr J White and their wives. Church history had been made when the Archbishop of York, Dr Donald Coggan, consecrated the Rev William Gordon Fallows as Suffragan Bishop of Pontefract. In the past similar ceremonies had taken place at York Minster but, because of restoration work there, the consecration was held in Wakefield Cathedral. And a rare newsreel film from the German war archives had been shown on the BBC for the first time. Five Faces of War told the story of war through the eyes of French, Nazi Germany, present day West Germany, Russia and America.

20 years ago

More than 100 jobs were being brought to York by the American-owned dessert giant Sara Lee Corporation. And with room to double the figure over the next few months, members of York Inward Investment Board were jubilant over the deal. And World Cup fever had left at least one corner of the universe virtually untouched, the village of Thixendale. Tucked away deep in the Yorkshire Wolds, the tiny village with its 41 houses and 125 parishioners showed little sign of celebrating France 98 thanks to a faulty mast which had been previously installed on a neighbouring hillside.