100 years ago

The boisterous atmospherical conditions of the last few days had made the outlook for the Easter holidays anything but encouraging, but there were indications of better conditions for the holidays.

Should we be favoured with a bright spell the popular river excursions arranged by Capt Grace would no doubt prove a great attraction, and would be as largely patronised as in the past. For the purpose of these excursions, which would commence on Good Friday and continue over Tuesday, the well-equipped and comfortable pleasure steamer River King would again be run.

The steamer would start from Ouse Bridge, York, and proceed thrice to Bishopthorpe on Good Friday, once to Nun Monkton on Easter Sunday, thrice to Bishopthorpe on Monday, and once to Naburn locks on Tuesday.

The hours of arrival and departure would be found in our advertising columns, but it was pointed out that the morning and evening trips would prove the most tempting to pleasure seekers. The glories of a river trip were too well known to need recommendation.

50 years ago

One of the biggest film hits of 1962 was undoubtedly The Young Ones, a modestly produced British musical with Cliff Richard as its star.

One of the biggest film hits of 1963 looked like being another British musical, also starring Cliff Richard, and called Summer Holiday. The title song from the film was currently Number One in the Record Hit Parade, and at least two other songs – Bachelor Boy and The Next Time – had hit the charts in a big way. Summer Holiday was also the title of a best-selling LP. The long and eagerly awaited film was currently on its way to York, and it would open shortly at the ABC Cinema.

Cliff and his co-stars had travelled 2,000 miles while making Summer Holiday. Scenes were filmed on the Acropolis, which overlooks Athens, and in the city of Athens itself. The basic theme was a journey through Europe made by Cliff and a gang of young friends in a London Transport bus.

25 years ago

The Russians had invaded Humberside! One of the largest loads to reach the Museum Of Army Transport, in Beverley, had arrived... a Russian T34 tank.

The tank, one of over 40,000 produced between 1940 and 1947 for the Eastern fronts, and used after World War II in North Korea, North Vietnam and the Israeli/Egyptian war, had been brought from Poland and was on loan from an army museum in Nottinghamshire for the whole of 1988.

It was an impressive machine at over 32 tons and nearly 25ft long. The T34 was still in active service in Warsaw Pact countries.