100 years ago

A NASTY motor crash happened in Broughton Road, Skipton. It appears two horse drawn vehicles, one a waggonette, were being driven across the town and a car, owned by the Craven Automobile Company, was proceeding in the opposite direction towards the fire station. Opposite the Belle Vue Mills the car came into violent contact with the waggonette. There were three horses attached to the waggonette and two of these were so badly injured they had to be destroyed.

A new lodge of buffaloes was instigated at the Old George Hotel, Skipton. The lodge was named the Enterprise and already 16 new members had been enrolled.

50 years ago

MAGISTRATES fined two Sutton teenagers for throwing apples in the village's Main Street. A resident reported the youths to the police after hearing thuds on her newly painted front door. She found the door covered with pieces of apple and the acid from them. The teenagers pleaded guilty and were fined 10s each, plus costs of 4s 2d.

A 16-year-old farm hand claimed a black out had caused him to put his head through the window of a van. Mr E Cowgill had parked his van outside the Lothersdale Post Office while he went into the shop. He heard the sound of breaking glass and when he went to the door he saw a boy on his bicycle had run into the back of his van and was standing with his head through the window and his bike still between his legs.

The West Riding Education Committee confirmed that the title of the new secondary school in Skipton was to be The Aireville Secondary School.

25 years ago

CROWDS gathered on a wind-swept embankment to watch the Earl of Avon officially open Skipton's new bypass. The Earl said that the quality of life for people living in the town would be greatly improved. The bypass was part of the Government's policy to give priority to roads that would take traffic out of historic towns. The bypass cost £17 million, £6 million more than it had originally been thought.

Songs of Praise recorded a programme in Skipton's Holy Trinity Church. Some of the pews had to be removed so the BBC programme could get all the television equipment into the church, but the rest of the church was full to capacity. As well as the congregation, an augmented choir and a brass band from Ermysted's School featured in the programme.p>

10 years ago

IT was reported that ghosts at two South Craven pubs could make an appearance for Hallowe'en. Staff and customers at the Bay Horse, in Sutton, had experienced ghostly goings on, had seen apparitions and reported things moving on their own. Licensee Peter Bingham said when he first saw it he thought it was a trick of the light. "But then I saw it again and this time it walked straight down the middle of the pub," he said.

Also, regulars at Steeton Hall warned the new licensees that a curse could strike them if one of the pub's paintings was taken out of the building. Legend says that if the 200-year-old painting leaves the building the hall will burn down. And when previous owners, Whitbread, took the painting out during restoration there was a serious blaze.

A Barnoldswick man got the shock of his life when his DIY disasters were put in the spotlight on the BBC's Noel's House Party. Paul Wellock was nominated by his long-suffering wife, Janet, who was sick of waiting for her husband to finish work on their bathroom, which had started four years earlier. Paul said he had got a bit of a shock when he was sat watching television at his mother-in-law's house and his name was shouted out on the programme. Noel ended up "grunging" Paul in a tank that had been set up in his mother-in-law's garden.

The Embsay to Bolton Abbey rail link was up and running again, 33 years after the last passenger train ran between the stations. The reopening was the fruition of a long-held dream by the Yorkshire Dales Railway Museum Trust.

10:36am Friday 2nd November 2007

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