From our archives:

85 years ago

Summer time had ended, and it was time to put the clocks back. According to the Yorkshire Herald all clocks and watches must be set to the correct Greenwich time during the night, preferably before going to bed, so that they would be showing the correct time in the morning. All responsible employers should also warn their workers to do same. Following a detour to the Royal schedule, Prince George had now officially opened the new headquarters of the Poor Children’s Holiday Association in Newcastle, which was understood to be the first children’s sanatorium to be established in England. And Francis Alan Jackson, of York, had been selected from a number of applicants for the post of organist and choirmaster at St Michael and St Leonard’s Church, Malton.

50 years ago

Mr Harold Wilson and Mr Ian Smith were preparing to meet in Gibraltar on broad the assault-ship Fearless, under the approval of Downing Street. According to officials the talks would be aimed at discovering whether it would be possible to arrive at a settlement over the Rhodesia problem. Mr Smith was to be flown out by the RAF and accompanied by Mr Lardner Burke, the Rhodesian Minister of Justice and Mr Jack Howman, Minister for External Affairs. Bass Charrington (North) had announced that it had increased the prices of certain draught and bottled beers. Draught brews, A K a mild beer, and Toby, best mild, a tankard beer, had gone up by almost a penny a pint. And the townsfolk of Pickering had been given the opportunity to help raise funds for the removal on to canvas, the Rex Whistler Cherubs mural which had been painted on to the wall of the Pickering Memorial Hall for a children’s party in 1943.

20 years ago

After a week of setbacks, the glass factory at Eggborough had received the green light from the Secretary of State. The matter was now back in the hands of Selby District Council for final consent subject to a review of planning conditions and a site visit by a county archaeologist. TV conservationist David Bellamy had given his backing to villagers fighting plans to build holiday cabins next to the Blacksmith’s Arms Hotel at Hartoft, near Pickering. And the Evening Press had launched an appeal to raise over £2 million for an extension to St Leonard’s Hospice in York.