On this day in Yorkshire 1950

Leeds students have produced a first class variety show with their revue, “It’s Rag Time Again” which opened at the Leeds Empire last night.

Last year they set a high standard with their first revue to be performed in a public theatre, and regular patrons of the Empire were heard to say this year’s effort was even better.

Bernard Atha, a 21 year old law student, shows a wealth of versatility miming in a satire of a Victorian photographic group and dancing the male lead in the ballet “Kismet” against a delightfully painted backcloth, while Mary Mee, a young soprano soon captures the audience with her two numbers.

Families’ vain search for new homes

After several months’ unavailing search for new homes, 40 people living in five houses in Whitelock Street, off North Street, Leeds, yesterday, were ordered to quit within 28 days in order that the houses may be demolished by Leeds Corporation.

At Leeds City Court, where the order for possession was granted, the Whitelock Street houses were described as so dangerous as to be “even further than unfit for human habitation.”

Last night none of the 40 occupants —ll adults and 29 children —had any hope of finding a new home.

Horbury search for Norman crypt

Attempts are being made to find the entrance to a Norman crypt believed to lie under the vestry of Horbury Parish Church.

The present church was built in 1791 on the site of a Norman church, and although the crypt was known to exist at that time little information is now available about it.

Efforts to find the entrance by sounding the walls below the vestry floor have met with no success, but further investigations are being carried out.

It is believed that the crypt will contain many historical relics, among them an alabaster wall monument erected the Norman church in 1627.

The monument enclosed the tomb of Lady Elizabeth Savile and is thought have been removed to the crypt when the Norman building was demolished.

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