Way we were

100 years ago

A sketch drawing was printed of the Clifton Green drinking trough and lichgate roof, with the enclosing rails, which had recently been the subject of some discussion in connection with the fatality to a cyclist who was knocked down while a number of cows were drinking at the trough, and straying over the roadway. It was thought by the coroner's jury that the fence which had been placed round the green, and which narrowed the access to the drinking trough, had something to do with the sad occurrence, but those who had control of the green, and who had the rails put up, took an opposite opinion. It was pointed out that while our artist was engaged at the spot making the sketch, a cow, which had somehow got inside the railings, could not get out again, and momentarily threatened to jump out over the trough. As our artist did not know what she (the cow) might do after she had cleared the trough, and gained the roadway, he thought it prudent to finish his sketch as quickly as possible, and clear out.

50 years ago

We were asked, "Do you start with a bang? Do you go to work like a zooming rocket, or crawl in like a damp squib?" It could make such a difference to your day when you started with a bang, not a whimper! One way to start right was to eat right at the start. All of us, health authorities said, needed a full one-third of our daily food at breakfast-time. The first meal of the day should never be skimped, never be skipped! Had you no time? Was it too much preparation and washing-up for the wife? Did you get on all right with a quick cuppa and a slice of bread, or couldn't face food early on? The real answer was to add a heaping plateful of cr-r-runchy Kellogg's, with milk and sugar, to your breakfast for a bang-up start to the day! No preparation! No messy washing-up! Eaten in no time, yet digestible as well as sustaining! A breakfast you could go to work on.

25 years ago

Transport Minister Norman Fowler had bounced York's proposed £13m outer ring road back into the lap of County Hall. Responsibility for establishing the northern by-pass rested squarely with North Yorkshire County Council. Announcing this in a letter to York Conservative Association, Mr Fowler said his department was not prepared to interfere. But he accepted the association's invitation to visit York to see the city's traffic problem. Local Tories, who offered him a helicopter trip for a bird's-eye view, had been told York would be on his agenda when he was next in the area.

Updated: 16:11 Tuesday, November 15, 2005