From this newspaper 100 years ago
A Northallerton Pleasuance. The first impression of a visitor to the new sewage disposal works is that he has come to a pleasuance or garden with revolving fountains playing over great circular brown beds, and with laurels, rhododendra and other shrubs planted round.

From this newspaper 50 years ago
A budget of over £7m, an increase of over half a million pounds for education in the North Riding, was approved by the County Education Committee at Northallerton on Tuesday. Ald Butterfield, chairman, said that during the coming year 2,500 new school places would be completed and put into use.

From this newspaper 25 years ago
Christie’s expect to get at least £150,000 for a piece of sculpture that Mr Patrick Crawley, who keeps the Carpenter’s Arms at Felixkirk, Thirsk, was delivered to him in a wheelbarrow when he was an eight-year-old boy. It is a previously unknown marble bust of Benjamin Franklin, the American statesman. Mr Crawley has always known that – but it was his decision to have an insurance valuation of the contents of his flat at Scarborough that revealed the sculpture as the work of John Michael Rysbrack, an outstanding Flemish-born sculptor of the 18th century.