FROM this newspaper 100 years ago. - Another attempt will be made to get Romanby included in the Northallerton Urban Council's area by an appeal to the North Riding County Council, and perhaps an impartial judge would admit that Northallerton has a strong case.

Romanby and Northallerton are practically one place and almost connected with houses. Romanby derives all the advantages of the town and its improvements. Though the railway station is called Northallerton station, and nearly all the traffic is to Northallerton, still it is in the Romanby area and the rates go the rural district! This is manifestly unfair. Besides, there is the question of sewage. Now Romanby discharges the sewage unprepared into the beck (as well as Brompton) and should contribute to a sewage scheme. The interests of the two towns are altogether interwoven.

From this newspaper 50 years ago. - Sedgefield councillors were taken aback when the owner of a Trimdon Grange house, who had been invited to attend in view of the council's intention to make a demolition order, said he was in full agreement with the order being made. When the councillors had recovered from their astonishment, Coun J. R. Adamson said it was the first time he could remember in which the owner of a condemned house had come before the council and agreed to the order being made.

From this newspaper 25 years ago. - Houses in Cleveland Street, Guisborough, are to be pulled down after all, the Department of the Environment has decided. The houses are within a Langbaurgh Borough Council clearance area.

Following a public meeting, at which several residents from Cleveland Street lodged objections to the clearance plan, planning inspector Mr R Nightingale recommended that the borough council's plan was justified. He said the houses were in fact unfit and had been correctly classified as such.