A NUMBER of photographs have been forwarded to the Gazette & Herald of events and scenes in Kirkbymoorside.

One photo was taken in about 1980 and is of Dave Cook, joint secretary of the squash club, with Alan Corlett at the site of the £38,000 squash court under construction.

In 1986, Gazette photographer Martin Oates, now picture editor of the Gazette's sister paper, The Press, took a photograph of council workmen tackling the road surface in Church Street, which had been ripped up by a torrent of water.

Another photograph was taken in November 1963 and shows Norman Windross at Kirkbymoorside Station looking along the branch line from York, which was scheduled for closure under the Beeching proposals.

In one photograph, taken, it is thought, in 1983, there is an unusual farmyard gate at Garth Cottage, Old Road. In the picture is Eddie Cook, who put the thatched roof over the gate about 15 years previous.

A picture taken in 1984, by a Gazette photographer, is of a workman using cutting gear to remove one of Kirkbymoorside's best-know landmarks – one of 13 small gas holdings being demolished the region. the gas holder was built in 1910 and had a capacity of 16,000 cubic feet.

Another photo is of George Shields, of Wombleton, who created the surround for the Kirkbymoorside road sign. We think the photo was taken in May 1956.