Past in pictures


Historic pictures of Ryedale from the archive of the Gazette & Herald newspaper.

Archive images from the Gazette & Herald
  • The Black Swan in Kirkbymoorside. Picture courtesy of Jim Rivis.
  • Kirkbymoorside Market Place in 1910. Picture courtesy of Jim Rivis.
  • Dale End, Kirkbymoorside. Picture courtesy of Jim Rivis.
  • Kirkbymoorside railway station. Picture courtesy of Jim Rivis.
  • Kirkbymoorside Jubilee Day 1935. Picture courtesy of Jim Rivis.
  • Black Dyke Band visits Kirkbymoorside. Picture courtesy of Jim Rivis.
  • Yoadwath Mill near Ravenswike. Picture courtesy of Jim Rivis.
  • Yoadwath Mill near Ravenswike. Picture courtesy of Jim Rivis.
  • Kirkbymoorisde Red Cross Society pictured in 1912 during a visit by Sergeant Gerrard, RAMC. Picture courtesy of Jim Rivis.
  • Sinnington hounds in Kirkbymoorside in March, 1945. Picture courtesy of Jim Rivis.
  • A scene outside the old children’s hospital in Kirkbymoorside. Picture courtesy of Jim Rivis.
  • Kirkbymoorside's brass band in 1890. Picture courtesy of Jim Rivis.
  • Thirsk floods, July 23, 1930.
  • Thirsk floods, July 23, 1930.
  • Thirsk floods, July 23, 1930.
  • Thirsk floods, July 23, 1930.
  • Thirsk floods, July 23, 1930.
  • Thirsk floods, July 23, 1930.
  • The Blessing Of The Boats at Scarborough harbour in 1954. The service was arranged by the Bethel Seamen's Mission and was conducted by Rev W H Bridge and Rev F C Ferriday.
  • Boats of the Scottish herring fleet make a picturesque scene as they lie in the harbour at Scarborough in 1957.
  • Children skipping on Scarborough foreshore in 1958 - this was an annual Shrove Tuesday event.
  • Children playing in rock pools left by the retreating tide on Scarborough's South Bay in 1970.
  • A leisurely way of seeing the sights at Scarborough - riding along the front in a horse-drawn buggy in 1973.
  • The North Bay at Scarborough.
  • The naval battles on Peasholme Park Lake, in Scarborough, were a popular attraction after the Second World War.
  • An unusual picture of beachcombers on the snow-covered sands of Scarborough's South Bay.
  • Cowthorpe Church, near Wetherby, tucked away in a rural setting with farm buildings on two sides.
  • Station House at Nunnington in 1959.
  • The main street at Coxwold, pictured in 1968, when Lady Downe unveiled the plaque to mark the village's success in the Best Kept Village Competition.
  • The church at Lockton.
  • The village of Beckhole in 1936.
  • Levisham before the First World War.
  • Players line up for a photograph at Hovingham Cricket Ground in 1887.
  • A horse grazes in the village of Coneysthorpe.
  • The exterior of T Burgess & Sons mill at Thornton-le-Dale in 1948.
  • A view of the valley below Gillamoor in 1960.
  • Two boys stop for a talk and survey the peaceful village scene at Gillamoor. 1962.
  • The village pub in Coxwold.
  • The picturesque village of Coxwold, taken in 1968.
  • Coxwold.
  • A farmer and his cows in the street at Coxwold, taken in 1936.
  • The church in Coxwold.
  • The memorial at Coneysthorpe taken in 1936.
  • The village of Coneysthorpe in 1962.
  • The crossroads at Coneysthorpe in 1968.
  • Cold Kirby.
  • Byland Abbey.
  • The church at Bulmer.
  • The village of Buttercrambe in 1957.
  • All Saints Church at Brompton By Sawdon, taken in 1949.
  • The village of Brandsby in the 1960s.
  • Sheep in a field at Brandsby.
  • Boltby in the 1960s.
  • The seventh Malton Folk Festival. The Bradshaw Mummers blackened their faces to stage their street plays.
  • John Lake, an expert in the Northumbrian Pipes, at the Malton Folk Festival.
  • Joseph Thorpe and his sister, Laura, join their grandma Mary Newton a she tunes up for Malton's 10th annual folk festival.
  • Musicians in the garden of the New Globe, Malton, during the Malton Folk Festival in 1988.
  • The Cat Nab Cloggies, a clog dance team from Saltburn, perform during the Malton Folk Festival in 1987.
  • The Ebor Morris Men at the Malton Festival of Folk in 1980.
  • The fairground steam engine owned by MD Thackray and Sons of Old Malton which took Father Christmas from York Station to the Co-op store in Rougier Street (pictured in Pickering in 1965).
  • The Slip Inn, Malton Road.
  • Thatcher Seth Eccles, of Helmsley, pictured cutting hazel stakes in 1971.
  • Road to Bransdale blocked by snow.
  • Seth Eccles, left, of Helmsley, who was thatching this cottage at Beadlam, talks to George Bumby in 1953.
  • 28 June 1969: At Helmsley's Feversham memorial centre, committee members (from left) Mr R A Lowery, Mr W Wilson and Mr J Rivis admire the new swimming pool.
  • Jack Hardy, his daughter Kathleen and son Steven, of Ulleskelf, steaming along the Malton Road on their way to the third annual Pickering Traction Engine Rally in 1964.
  • A car stuck in the snow.
  • A 1914 ploughing traction engine owned by Monty Thackray of Old Malton, on its way to the Great Yorkshire Show in 1966.
  • Sept 1, 1965. A sight not often seen with so much automation in farming these days is that of harvesting by hand in the old traditional manner. Mr F Allen, right, of Scrayingham, near York, and Mr W Holmes are stooking the oats in front of the old binder
  • Harvest time in Ganton, 1947.
  • 8 February 1986. Farmer Chris Arnott of Acklam, near Malton, normally takes feed for his stock along this lane by tractor, but after the heavy snowfalls and drifting on the Wolds he now has to battle on foot to get the feed through.
  • March 20, 1959. Photo showing two teams of shire or heavy horses ploughing fields.
  • September 13, 1963. Busy days for those who work on the land. Our photographer visited Mr E F Sawyer's farm, at Buttercrambe, near York, to capture this harvest scene.
  • Showing that old ways are best when it comes to quality, Mr Jack Whitwell works on a binder at Villa Farm, Sutton-on-Forest.
  • August 31, 1967. Robert, Andrew and Ian Warriner stooking wheat on their father's farm at Mosswood Grange, Crayke.
  • March 16, 1973. Although mechanisation was far advanced in agriculture, the horse had not been entirely eliminated. The picture shows Mr Derrick Wardell, on Rosie, a shire, at Crossfield Farm, Stittenham, muck-spreading on the Howardian Hills.
  • Sheep on the moors in snow in Ryedale.
  • Farmers look at empty pens during the 1967 foot and mouth outbreak.
  • Seth Eccles combs the straw down to the eaves while thatching Pockley Post Office in 1971.
  • Helmsley Market Place in 1948.
  • Taffy Demery, shoeing smith at Pat Rohan's stables in Malton, with a red hot racing shoe.
  • A vast area of moorland is turned into a building site as the radomes (golf balls) are built at RAF Fylingdales in 1962.
  • Linton-on-Ouse trainee RAF pilots work on cleaning and restoring the white horse of Kilburn in 1967.
  • A steam locomotive pulls three carriages on the North Yorkshire Moors railway in the 1970s.
  • Keith Thompson and Mal Worley, members of Goathland Plough Stots, who took part in Ryedale Longsword Festival in Malton in 1987.
  • A 1914 ploughing traction engine owned by Monty Thackray of Old Malton, on its way to the Great Yorkshire Show in 1966.
  • The scenic streets and countryside setting of Helmsley.
  • Helmsley market place and surrounding countryside in an aerial view from 1958.
  • The last Reliance Motor Services bus from York arrives at Helmsley market cross in June 1966.
  • Helmsley Town Hall.
  • R Yates and Sons Ltd, Railway Street, Malton, in the early 1900s.
  • Traffic in Yorkersgate, Malton in 1968.
  • St Michael's Church, Market Place, Malton, in the 1950s.
  • Malton cattle market in 1973.
  • Malton Market Place in the 1950s.
  • Pickering: the building in the centre, at the junction of Burgate and Market Place, known as The Vaults, was demolished in the middle of the last century. Barber Fred Pickering had his premises on the first floor.
  • Monkman's, the family grocer in the Market Place, Pickering. Staff are: Gordon Ward, Cyril Monkman, Freddie Monkman, Dorothy Norton, Frances Pickup and J A Dymock.
  • The old Memorial Hall in Pickering. The picture was taken in 1951.
  • Pickering: looking up Market Place and Burgate with the parish church.
  • On a windy day workmen attempt to spread lime on the white horse at Kilburn.

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