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CRAVEN may well be about to go through the biggest shake-up of local government since the 1970s - but 50 years ago, it looked a whole lot more…
OVE Tuesday may well have slipped by without there being hardly a whimper this year, but exactly 100 years ago on ‘pancake day’ there was a land-mark local sporting occasion. Skipton’s Mr Sport, Roger Ingham - himself a one time winner of the annual race - tells me it was the last time that the historic Ermysted’s Grammar School cross-country race - a notable event in those distant days – would finish in Skipton High Street. “Ever mounting traffic from 1922 and since, thus prompted the organisers, for numerable decades thereafter, to finish the races on the “Top” behind ...