100 years ago

The New Brighton Saw Mills Co, Gargrave, brought an action against Patrick Mills, labourer, under the Employers and Workman Act. The company sought to recover 18 shillings - one week's wages - in default of his having failed to give proper notice when leaving their employ. The plaintiffs said there was a large poster setting out the terms of employment which the defendant would have passed daily. The defendant said he could not read and the rules had not been explained to him. The bench ordered the defendant to pay the 18 shillings.

A warpdresser and a weaver were summoned for bowling stones on the highway. Three more people were summoned for aiding and abetting. PC Coldwell said he was on Colne Road, Lothersdale, when he saw the men bowling stones, about the size of a cricket ball. The other men were betting on the result. The men were each fined five shillings.

The old, established Barnoldswick Spring Fair took place. A good number of sheep and cattle were on offer and there was a satisfactory number of farmers and dealers present.

50 years ago

Aireville County Secondary School in Skipton was officially declared open by locally-born Iain Macleod, minister of Labour's National Service. The school was described as being "beautifully ornamented" by masses of spring flowers and the general appearance of light and brightness and excellence of design was said to be "strongly indicative of the progressive nature of present day education". The celebration marked the completion of the first phase of building at Aireville.

Local authorities are often criticised for not doing something - but a committee of Earby Urban District Council was attacked for the opposite reason. The Housing and Town Planning Committee received a complaint from a tenant of the Springfield Avenue estate against the council's decision to reinstate windows which had broken because of the contracting of the metal frames. The writer said the tenancy made the tenant responsible for replacing all cracked or broken windows. He said he had done this several times at his own expense and was now having to pay for other people's windows through his rates.

25 years ago

Warm praise for the high standard of reliability achieved by local bus drivers was recorded at the first Upper Wharfedale transport consultative meeting, organised by the Yorkshire Dales Society. The meeting was the first of its kind in North Yorkshire and was to examine local transport problems and to consider ways of assisting with the promotion and publicising of the local bus service.

Kelbrook's Methodist Church was demolished 93 years to the day after the foundation stones were laid. In the rubble, demolition expert Norman Sutcliffe discovered a time capsule from 1890 which had been built into the walls of the building.

There was good possibility Addingham would get a bypass, said parish council chairman Alan Jermone. Giving his report to residents at the annual parish meeting, Coun Jerome said he did not think a minister would take time to visit the village unless there was a good possibility in the near future. Junior transport minister Lynda Chalker had visited the village a few weeks previously.

10 years ago

Skipton railway station was bracing itself for one of the most exciting periods in its history. A major programme of renovation to improve the ticket office and car park would be completed by July and by the end of the summer Skipton's first through train from London could be in service.

The curtain rose on a new era at Skipton's Plaza cinema as the keys were handed to a man who first dreamed of owning a picture house at the age of seven. In buying the Plaza, Charles Morris said he felt a huge amount of responsibility in taking over a family business that went back to the silent movie era.

9:26am Friday 2nd May 2008

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