From this newspaper 100 years ago. In the Hull Bankruptcy Court on Monday, another chapter was added to the amazing story of the Driffield traveller, J W Temple, who after witnessing a performance of the “Merry Widow” in London in February 1909 lost his memory and only awoke to consciousness in a hut in Australia many months later.

From this newspaper 50 years ago.

Its one and only passenger train withdrawn from service in 1959, the six-mile long Hawes-Garsdale railway, Wensleydale’s sole rail link with the west, is being brought to an ignominious end. A Bishop Auckland contractor, George Stephenson, has been given the job of uprooting the railway lock, stock and barrel.

From this newspaper 25 years ago.

There are no serious structural problems with the Stokesley Swimming Baths, even though there is some corrosion on the columns. This assurance about the baths, built ten years ago, was given to Hambleton Recreation Committee at Northallerton on Thursday.

From this newspaper 10 years ago. – Residents of a tiny Yorkshire Dales village are furious that the spring water supply they have enjoyed for many years is being replaced by water piped in at a cost of £37,000 per household. The work to install the 4.5km pipeline to connect Caldbergh, near Leyburn, with the main grid system at Thornton Steward, by Yorkshire Water, is costing Yorkshire Water almost £500,000.