Yes, yes, yes, it was the year that England won the World Cup. But 1966 was about a lot more than that, as our pictures on this page show.

It was also the year in which Moors murderers Ian Brady and Myra Hindley were sentenced to life in prison; in which 116 children and 28 adults were killed when a slag heap collapsed, engulfing a junior school in Aberfan, Wales; and in which reigning heavyweight champion Muhammed Ali took on (and beat) our own Henry Cooper in a world title fight in London.

In York, the city's streets were oddly deserted on the afternoon of Saturday July 30, the day of the World Cup final presumably because everyone was at home, watching the match on the box.

"There has not been a Saturday like this for ages," an AA spokesman said.

If there were wild celebrations after England's 4-2 extra time victory over West Germany, however, the Yorkshire Evening Press didn't report them.

It contented itself on Monday with noting local hero Jack Charlton was back in Leeds with his heavily pregnant wife Pat: and with sternly pointing out England's victory on the pitch had been due to those English qualities of fair play and sound defence.

As for the rest of that year: well, it was very 1960s here in York.

A very much younger (and somehow quintessentially Sixties) Neal Guppy was, even then, hard at work in his Enterprise Club, in Nunnery Lane, which is still the home for a host of clubs and societies; York group Roll Movement posed moodily all checked trousers, roll-neck sweaters and floppy Stones-style haircuts on the bonnet of a Ford Consul; and John Westbrook starred as Christ in the York Mystery Plays.

Further afield, cooling towers were under construction at Ferrybridge power station and the last Reliance Motor Services bus from York made the journey to Helmsley Market Cross.

Those were the days.