What was happening in Bishopthorpe 100 years ago? Well, the Ouse was in flood, the 'evils of gambling' were being discussed, and fashion was on the agenda. Sound familiar? Mind you - diphtheria closed the school and the city vagrants were fed on bread and water instead of yummy gruel.
As Stanley Holloway put it, several years later: "No wrecks and nobody drownded, in fact nothing to laugh at, at all."
Don't let this put you off - read all about it on the Local History Group web page - here.