On this day in Yorkshire

February 16, 1951

EASTER visitors to York Minster will be able to see the famous Five Sisters window unobscured by the scaffolding which has filled the North Transept for many years.

Mr. J.W. Green, the Minster Clerk of Works, told me last night that It was hoped to have the scaffolding removed in about three weeks.

The last time visitors could have an unobstructed view of the window was in 1935. In that year the scaffolding was erected in the North Transept to enable repairs carried out to the vaulted ceiling, which had been ravaged by the death watch beetle.

During the war the Century glass was removed from the window for safety. It was reinserted during 1950, but the window was still hidden by the scaffolding.