This gallery showcases the stories making the news around Yorkshire in 1960. And all four corners of the county are featured – from Beverley and Malton through to Scarborough and Whitby as well as the Yorkshire Dales. The photos, plucked from the YEP archive, feature some familiar faces as well as well-known landmarks.
1. Ribblehead Viaduct, January 1960 repairs steam train
A steam train passes over Ribblehead Viaduct in January 1960. Photo: YPN
2. Yorkshire in 1960
Scarborough’s Grand Hotel pictured in October 1960. Photo: YPN
3. Yorkshire in 1960
The miniature railway that runs between Scarborough and Scalby pictured in March 1960. Photo: YPN
4. Yorkshire in 1960
Children play in the rover at Bolton Abbey in August 1960. Photo: YPN
This gallery showcases the stories making the news around Yorkshire in 1960. And all four corners of the county are featured – from Beverley and Malton through to Scarborough and Whitby as well as the Yorkshire Dales. The photos, plucked from the YEP archive, feature some familiar faces as well as well-known landmarks.
5. Yorskshire in 1960
Whitby Jet craftsman William Cox at work in his attic workshop at Boulby Bank in Whitby in September 1960. Photo: YPN
6. Yorkshire in 1960
If you go down Allerton Bywater’s Main Street and turn into Boat Street, you’ll come to a dead end by the River Aire – a picturesque backwater where stands the 17-century Boat Inn, one-time calling place for Methley miners taking ferryboat trips to and from Allerton Bywater Colliery. Pop into the bar there in October 1960 and you may find 79-year-old Billy Guy and 80-year-old Walt Hepworth, both ex-miners with over 60 years’ pit service, supping their pints of old and listening to old tunes played from 20in. steel records on a machine built in Saxony about the time they were born. This forerunner of the modern juke box is a Polyphone – a clockwork-powered form of musical box, housed in an ornate, penny-in-the-slot cabinet, which plucks dulcet music from a repertoire of about 20 steel discs. Photo: YPN
7. Yorkshire in 1960
Laisterdyke blacksmith Joseph Gatenby, at work in his forge in March 1960. “I’m still learning after 50 years in the job,” said Mr Gatenby. When he entered the profession in 1914 business was booming. Textile mills, breweries, tradesmen and the railways all used horses. Then, as motorised transport came increasingly into use, the number of horses began to wane until now Mr. Gatenby’s customers are an odd mixture of rag and bone men, children with their ponies and the Bradford City Police mounted section. Photo: YPN
8. Yorkshire in 1960
Prime Minister Harold MacMillan relaxes smoking a pipe on isolated Grimesgill Moor at Masham in August 1960. Photo: Harry Fletcher
9. Yorkshire in 1960
An bird’s eye view of… Malton in June 1960. Photo: YPN
10. Yorkshire in 1960
Talking together after a Sunday morning service at St. Mary’s Church in Scarborough in October 1960 are the Archbishop of York, Dr. A. M. Ramsey, Mrs. Gaitskell, Hugh Gaitskell and Miss Alice Bacon. Photo: YPN
11. Yorkshire in 1960
A giant snowplough breaks through the road to Thixendale in January 1960. Photo: YPN
12. Yorkshire in 1960
The village of Ampleforth pictured in May 1960
13. Yorkshire in 1960
The River Aire by night from Leeds Bridge in November 1960. Photo: YPN
14. Yorkshire in 1960
Thornton-in-Craven pictured in March 1960. Photo: YPN
15. Yorkshire in 1960
Racehorses at exercise on Beverley Westwood in July 1960. Photo: YPN
16. Yorkshire in 1960
A milk van makes its way through Ackworth near Pontefract in October 1960. Photo: YPN
This gallery showcases the stories making the news around Yorkshire in 1960. And all four corners of the county are featured – from Beverley and Malton through to Scarborough and Whitby as well as the Yorkshire Dales. The photos, plucked from the YEP archive, feature some familiar faces as well as well-known landmarks. READ MORE: 24 photo memories take you around Yorkshire in 1970
19. Yorkshire in 1960
Shops at Robin Hoods Bay in February 1960. Photo: YPN
20. Yorkshire in 1960
St Peter’s Church at Sowerby. Photo: YPN
22. Yorkshire in 1960
Seven years ago Wilfred Ash “retired” from Skipton Castle, but in August 1960 at 81, he was still going strong, telling the story of the historic building he has known so intimately for 51 years to a new generation. Photo: YPN
23. Yorkshire in 1960
Clifford’s Tower at York. Photo: YPN
