From our archives:

85 years ago

In his first public speech since becoming Chancellor of Germany, Herr Hitler had stirred 10,000 enthusiastic followers in the great Berlin Sportpalast.

The speech broadcast throughout Germany was the same order as the Chancellor’s previous orations, stirring his audience by his oratorical powers, but then telling them nothing new.

Furiously denouncing the “November criminals” of 1918, and the champions of Marxism, he gave no indication of what he was going to do to improve the situation for the people of Germany.

The main attraction at Easingwold Cinema, was “Splinters in the Navy” starring Sydney Howard.

The picture was typically nautical with a screamingly funny boxing match between Sydney as one of the fighters.

And the ‘Recipe of the Day’ was Fruit Coburg Buns, taken from the Kangaroo Kookery Book, requiring the use of Australian sultanas, Australian Kangaroo grade butter and Australian eggs.

50 years ago

Work had started at York Minster on installing a huge hoist which was to carry drilling equipment and materials more than 120ft up the inside of the Central Tower.

The equipment was to be used in bracing the tower with a ‘girdle’ of stainless steel rods.

A pug dog named Paramin Villypin Pantaloon, owned by Mrs Margo Raisin, of South Lodge, Aldwark, near York, was awarded one of the top prizes at Cruft’s, the best pug dog award.

Actress, radio and television personality and pioneer of Children’s Hour, Miss Mary O’Farrell, had died in London and York City were all set to rise up the Football League table after taking three points from rival promotion pacemakers and winning successive away games at Lincoln and Southend.

20 years ago

The new-look heart unit at York District Hospital was officially opened by the city’s Labour MP Hugh Bayley.

The £320,000 refit of the coronary care unit included new state-of-the-art monitors for patients in the eight-bed ward, a high-tech link to two more beds in nearby wards and a four-channel radio system to monitor the hearts of patients elsewhere in the hospital.

Air cadets from across the region winged their way into York to mark the 57th anniversary of the launch of the Air Training Corps.

More than 130 cadets and staff from seven squadrons joined the parade through York’s city centre.