FROM this newspaper 100 years ago. - A romantic sequel has followed the baby desertion case at Cloughton some months ago.

A young woman, lodging in Belle Vue Street, Scarborough, it will be remembered, took her baby to Cloughton and left it on the roadside, where it was found by Mr John Leadley, a farmer, of Cloughton.

The same evening, the mother tried to commit suicide by taking poison but subsequently seemed very penitent.

Mr Leadley some time later received a letter from a young settler in British Columbia, who had read the particulars in a newspaper sent to him from England by one of his friends, and he made an offer to give the young woman a fresh start in life.

After due inquiries had been made on both sides, the young woman went out to the young gold digger, who is a native of Nottingham, the couple fell in love with each other and were married the next day.

From this newspaper 50 tears ago. - Bilsdale, which was described a few months ago as still living in the candle age, is to be supplied with electricity in about a month.

Helmsley Rural Council were notified at their meeting on Friday of last week by the North Eastern Electricity Board that the necessary poles had been delivered and the construction work on the overhead line carrying a supply of electricity to Fangdale had begun.

Work would occupy six weeks and it was expected that a supply would be installed at the end of November or the beginning of December.

From this newspaper 25 years ago. - An Englishman's castle is his home - until it falls down round his bed and then he has to look round for a caravan to provide more simply for his family.

This is the weekend dilemma facing 37-year-old farmer Mr Malcolm Clark and his wife Mrs Patricia Clark after a night of fear in which their battlemented castle home in East Cowton fell down round them in a terrifying fashion on Saturday night.

Their farmhouse home was in part of the keep of the 15th century Cowton Castle and it was while they were in bed upstairs that tons of masonry crashed down through their bedroom from the battlemented towers, missing them by only a few feet and crushing furniture downstairs.

Mr and Mrs Clark's three boys Graham, 15, Stuart, 13, and Christopher, 8, were sleeping in a room on the other side of the staircase which remained undamaged. The two elder boys scrambled out and found a torch which they took to the demolished bedroom thus enabling their parents to climb along a beam and out through a window.