Thursday, April 15, 2004

100 years ago: Gangs were engaged on the North-Eastern Railway at Selby in making a new junction on the Leeds and Selby line, near Wistow Junction, in or-der to connect the Selby and Wistow and Cawood light railway with the main line for through running into Selby Station platform. The arrangement, when com-pleted, would do away with the complaint which passengers had made in having to walk from Selby Station to Barstow Road Station to get to see Wis-tow and Cawood trains.

50 years ago: A human skull was un-earthed by York Corporation workmen in Hungate car park, where they were laying drains. The skull was discovered about 4ft down and a few yards from the wall of St Saviour's Church, by one of the workmen, in a good state of preser-vation, and with almost a full set of upper teeth. The keeper of the Yorkshire Museum, who examined the skull, said that it did not belong to a fully grown person and might be medieval. Excava-tions were carried out in this vicinity a few years previously for Roman remains, and two skeletons were unearthed. How-ever, the keeper declared that he considered it unlikely to be of Roman origin.

10 years ago: Britain's first and only, at that time, national evening newspaper was to be launched in East Yorkshire. The free daily paper was delivered with the Evening Press, who were also the printers of the publication, which was called the Daily News. The paper was "packed with up-to-the-minute national and international stories, in-depth analy-sis, features and entertainment news from around the globe".

Updated: 11:09 Thursday, April 15, 2004