From this newspaper 150 years ago. – The new fire engine, which was built by Messrs Joseph Hall and Co., Oldham, arrived in Middlesbrough last week, and was tried in the gas works yard on Monday afternoon last, when Mr Dunning, Sgt Reed, master of the brigade, together with members of the police force and other officials, were present. The experiments were highly satisfactory.

From this newspaper 100 years ago. – The vicar of Thirsk, in the forthcoming issue of the Parish Magazine, suggests a “Tradesmen's Sunday” on the same lines as Military Sunday. “The military” he writes, “come to church because they believe their profession is not incompatible with religion, and it is to be earnestly hoped that every calling which has a righteous intention will make a public declaration of it, which can be done in no more effective and obvious way than by joining at lest once a year in an act of corporate worship.

From this newspaper 50 years ago. – Today there are two million more school children in this country than at the end of the war, but because school building had kept pace with this development, part-time education had been avoided. In no other country in Europe had this been done. Mr T P G Kitson, MP for Richmond, said so on Monday at the formal opening of extensions to the Richmond Grammar School and Richmond High School.