100 years ago

A meeting had been held at the Exhibition Buildings, York, for the purpose of the formation of a proposed York City Association Football and Athletic Club, and to give those who had not already taken out shares in the company an opportunity of doing so.

The real business of the meeting was the presentation of a report upon the progress made with respect to the number of shares already applied for, the occupation of a ground situate at Burton Stone Lane, the proposed entrance into the Midland League, and the fixtures for the season 1912-13.

There was a very encouraging attendance. The minimum subscription on which the directors would proceed to allotment was 2000 shares. The first match would be with Barnsley, and others included Rotherham Town, Sheffield United, Goole Town, and Halifax Town, Lincoln City, Hull City, Leeds City, Gainsborough Trinity, Sheffield Wednesday, and other notable clubs.

50 Years Ago

Townswomen Guild members from all parts of Britain in London had become active champions of pensioners in regard to National Health prescription charges.

They were delegates of the National Union of Townswomen's Guilds, attending the National Council meeting in the Albert Hall. A motion urging that prescription should be free for retirement pensioners and all old age pensioners, not only those who drew a supplementary allowance, was carried with acclamation.

Subjects discussed ranged from toilet facilities on Britain's trunk roads to the treatment of child witnesses in adult courts. The motion on toilet facilities introduced by Mrs Feasby, of Guildford Afternoon TG, asked the Council to urge appropriate Ministries to encourage the supply of adequate toilet facilities at regular intervals on main trunk roads throughout Britain.

25 years ago

A West Yorkshire double-deck bus had struck a railway bridge in Leeman Road, York, slightly damaging the vehicle. The bus was empty at the time.

A year before, a West Yorkshire bus driver was sacked after he drove a double-deck bus under a bridge in the road, slicing off the roof. Bus company officials were now conducting an inquiry into the incident in which the bus driver hit the height restriction warning board on the bridge. A spokesman for the bus company confirmed that all double-deck buses were banned in Leeman Road because of the danger.

The accident coincided with a secret Department of Transport report which said that rail users were facing a growing danger from tall vehicles smashing into railway bridges. The document, leaked to a national newspaper, said it was only a matter of time before an accident derailed a crowded passenger train.