by Adrian Royles. Pictures: Frank Dwyer and Nigel Holland

The great floods of March 1999 produced some memorable stories and unforgettable images.

A year on and the Evening Press returned to Norton, Old Malton, Malton, Stamford Bridge and Elvington to recreate some of those remarkable photographs, but this time there was no water in sight!

Malton businessman Stephen Smith makes a phone call from a flood-hit Welham Street, in Norton, in this memorable picture

Stephen Smith, managing director of Renault dealer Barker Smith Ltd in Welham Road, Norton, featured in one memorable image - talking on his mobile phone while being paddled along in a makeshift boat.

But he had to dodge the traffic when he posed for a new picture - with his mobile phone, of course.

Mr Smith slept on the premises for two nights at the height of the flooding, having food ferried in by boat.

Paul Entwistle, 14, of Wood Street, Norton, was a paperboy working for Castle News, Castlegate, Malton, when he was photographed doggedly delivering the Evening Press.

The Norton College pupil recently gave up his round, but he agreed to don his delivery bag one more time to recreate the picture in St Nicholas Street, Norton.

ABOVE: Evening Press delivery boy Paul Entwistle with the last delivery of the day in a flooded St Nicholas Street, Norton. BELOW: Paul recreates the photograph 12 months later

Paul had to ride a new bike in this year's photograph. "My old one got pinched about three weeks after the floods. It had been all cleaned up and had a new back wheel on it as well," he recalled.

At the Swordsman pub at Stamford Bridge, landlord Peter Hynd moved out shortly after the flood and is now working at Halifax Golf Club.

New licensee Neil Townsend, who now runs the pub with his wife, Karen, said: "We moved in while the builders were still in, which was nice for us because it gave us more time to get to know everybody and have a nice slow introduction."

At Elvington, near York, we photographed a flood-hit cottage belonging to pensioner Blanche Stacey who was evacuated after water levels started to rise. A year later we returned to capture Blanche in her restored living room.

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