Elvington

Each Scout Group received 50 vests to ensure children remained safe during winter

Opticians help over 180 children stay visible during winter
Scout Groups across Elvington, Acomb and Holgate each received a hi-vis vest donation this winter from Specsavers.

Gary Hancock, Aviation Conservation Manager for Yorkshire Air Museum, Elvington, York, preparing for the massive task which is expected to take at least two years to rebuild a giant RAF submarine-hunting aircraft. Picture: James Hardisty. Date: 9th January 2025.

Giant RAF submarine-hunting aircraft finds new home in Yorkshire

The Elvington Scout Group exploring the area in their hi-vis vest from Specsavers Acomb

Scouts receive hi-vis vest donation to keep safe this winter

A complete Shackleton aircraft. (Pic credit: Yorkshire Air Museum)

Yorkshire Air Museum: Pieces arrive for submarine hunting aircraft

Dakota Running 01. (Pic credit: Yorkshire Air Museum)

Thunder Day: Yorkshire museum to host event showcasing WW2 aircraft

Jonny Davies, who owns JD Stunts, performing test runs at Elvington Airfield in York

Daredevil breaks world record - by being dragged behind a superbike at 160mph

Golden Era Run last year. (Pic credit: Yorkshire Air Museum)

Yorkshire Air Museum: Over 50 vintage motorcycles to be showcased at event

The remodelled Hurricane. (Pic credit: Yorkshire Air Museum)

Yorkshire museum unveils WWII aircraft replica to honour pilot who defended York

The children begin their design with Adam Press, Playscheme's head of design.

Pocklington Junior School Council collaborates with Playscheme for new castle th...

Crowds watched as the Nimrod fired up its jet engines.

Thunder Day 2024: Amazing photos show large crowds watch Nimrod fire up engines

Dakota paratrooper. (Pic credit: Yorkshire Air Museum)

Thunder Day 2024: Yorkshire event to allow visitors to see aircraft come to life

Jerry Ibbotson standing in front of the Handley Page Victor K2 Bomber/ Refueling Tanker XL231 aircraft. (Pic credit: James Hardisty)

How Yorkshire Air Museum has risen by 12,000 visitors and was saved from closure

Millfield Ind. Estate. Pic: Google Maps

Plans to build 139 houses next to industrial estate approved

Yorkshire Air Museum: Former RAF nuclear bomber returns 30 years since arrival

The Douglas DC3 Dakota (pictured) was an American-built transport aircraft, used during WW2 and for years after. (Pic credit: Yorkshire Air Museum)

Yorkshire Air Museum: Watch aircraft up close at event held by Yorkshire museum

Councillor Christian Vassie, of City of York Council, has claimed that a local business to blame.

Investigation underway to find polluters who leaked oil into Yorkshire stream

The Environment Agency said it was working to establish the cause of the deaths, after the fish were discovered in a stream in Elvington

Investigation launched after hundreds of fish die in North Yorkshire village

We'll Meet Again 1940s Weekend, held at Yorkshire Air Museum, York. Pictured Yvonne Somrani, and Richi Redtial both dressed as ATA Officers infront of the Fairchild Argus aircraft.
Picture By Yorkshire Post Photographer, James Hardisty.

The best pictures from the 1940s festival held in Yorkshire this weekend

Hattie Noble on the farm performing her scanning of pregnant cow, at South Acre Farm Melbourne, York.

Farmer's daughter who has set up her own cattle ultrasound scanning business

Shackleton WR963 – nicknamed “Ermintrude” - has been preserved by the Shackleton Aviation Group. Photo submitted

Yorkshire Air Museum secures the future of Avro Shackleton Cold War aircraft – o...

The Royal Oak in Copmanthorpe

Two village pubs protected after being named 'assets of community value'
Two Yorkshire pubs have been relisted as assets of community value (ACV) – giving them extra protection against closure.
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Sutton Village Hall chairman John Newlove, Woodhouse Grange cricketers Chris and Andrew Bilton, and Woodhouse Grange chairman Martin Smith prepare for the Sutton Beer Festival.

Welcome return of Sutton Beer Festival cheered following lockdown lay-off

Yorkshire Air Museum volunteers re-arrange the main hangar and outdoor display aircraft exhibits. The theme for the Summer will be: Aviation,Yorkshire's Greatest Invention, to celebrate the county's unique aviation heritage, which continues to this day.

Picture : Jonathan Gawthorpe

Yorkshire Air Museum looks to get off to a flier after months in lockdown

August 1923: Groundstaff running to get out of the way of an Allen glider. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Remembering the Scarborough engineer who invented the glider

Jason achieved a top speed of 59.064mph at Elvington on Tuesday Picture James Hardisty

MND sufferer Jason Liversidge 'breaks wheelchair world record'

Bob Emmett, a volunteer and trustee at the Yorkshire Air Museum (left) helps the Halifax into position as Alex Roberts, a reenactor dressed in RAF uniform, gathers up the flags from VE Day as they get ready for reopening. Picture: Gary Longbottom.

Yorkshire Air Museum puts Second World War aircraft centre stage for reopening

Karen Griggs who is making Forest School Packs for children at home Picture: Polly A Baldwin

How sticks, twigs and a bit of imagination are becoming big business for one Yor...

Dave Shaw from the Hop Studio, Elvington. Picture: Tony Johnson

'Mothballed' breweries call on Chancellor for rate relief to ensure their surviv...

Farmer Tom Pearcy with The Mighty Zulu Nation

Lion King cuts through York cornfield

Cyclist Neil Campbell training and equipment testing for an attempt to break the 167mph world cycling speed record at Elvington, Airfield, Yorks. Picture Tony Johnson.

Architect in cycling speed record bid

Carl Camp who makes knifes at Falcon Forge in Elvington, near York.
25th January 2019.

Inside the York forge of a master craftsman

Tom Pearcy in his pumpkin boat on the River Ouse, York. Picture by Simon Hulme

Maze owner rocks Guinness boat with a giant pumpkin
If there had not previously been a record for the largest pumpkin to have been turned into a boat, there is now.
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Jason Liversidge - stepping up a gear for his next challenge

Why Yorkshireman Jason Liversidge wants to go 100mph in a wheelchair

From left: Andy Stamp WW2 , Charles Hancock 1950/60's, Sandrine Bauchet, present day, Yoan Martin 1980s and Gary Hancock, WW1, with in the background a T7 Hawker Hunter trainer 1950's, Handley page Victor Bomber 1960's and a prototype Tornador GR4.

Hats off to a century of air combat as RAF flypast marks anniversary

Artist Leonard Brown, in front of the lif- size replica of Amy Johnson's Gypsy Moth, which is hanging from the roof of Paragon Station, in Hull.

Delight as campaign to keep Amy Johnson replica in Hull takes off

The diminution of bank services in rural areas is causing consternation.

YP Letters: Bank closures impact most on the elderly

Fire crews battled to stop fire spreading to farm buildings and animals.

Arson attack near York put farm and livestock in danger

Huge tailbacks on A64 as Yorkshire families head to the coast

Noel Whittall from Leeds is pictured with his 1918 First World War Truimph Dispatch Rider Bike Model H. PIC: Simon Hulme

Vintage motorcycles return in convoy to the open road in Yorkshire

Zef Eisenberg, prior to being airlifted to hospital. Picture: Danny Lawson/PA Wire

Zef Eisenberg airlifted to hospital after crashing out of Elvington '˜speed' eve...

Gary Hancock, museum technician, infront of the refurbished bi-plane, which was transported to the International Somme Commemoration event at Thiepval, in Northern France.

Picture James Hardisty

First World War bi-plane returns from Somme commemorations for York exhibition

Date:15th March 2016. Picture James Hardisty.
The Yorkshire Air Museum, at Elvington, York, have opened a new exhibition 'Gas Bags To Super Zeppelins. Pictured Brian Watmough, next to a Eastchurch Kitten WWI bi-pane, designed as a 'Zeppelin killer'.

The week in pictures... from the toddler work out at Trinity Leeds to police tra...

Joseph Murphy with Jane Thompson, his god-daughter, and other family members

Surprise! 96-year-old Leeds D-Day veteran Joseph Murphy given France’s highest b...

Normandy Veteran Joseph Murphy, from Burley, Leeds, is presented with the Légion dHonneur by his family at Yorkshire Air Museum, York with Jane Thompson, his god-daughter

Surprise honour for wartime hero from country he helped to liberate

Farmer Tom Pearcy, right, with Jamie Anderson, son of the late Gerry Anderson, at the York Maze. Picture by Tony Johnson

Aerial video: Thunderbirds are go - in a cornfield near York

Martin Nicholson, from Otley, is one of the last surviving members of the Air Transport Auxilliary (ATA) which played a crucial role in the Second World War.

The unsung Second World War heroes and heroines of the air

Yorkshire Air Museum - 'Night Shoot' Photography Event

Avro Halifax Friday the 13th

Aviation enthusiasts flock for tickets to night shoot

York bus services to be cut to save cash

GENEROSITY RECREATED: Nicola Taylor of York Teaching Hospital Charity, Ian Reed, director of the Yorkshire Air Museum, Alison Wragg of Martin House Hospice, Sheriff of York John Kenny, and the Lord Mayor of York Coun Ian Gillies. Picture: James Hardisty

Yorkshire Air Museum recreate Christmas generosity of French airmen 70 years on

Top Gear presenter Richard Hammond crashed at Elvington airfield near York.

I was hard to work with after York crash says Richard Hammond

Video: Yorkshire flyers recreate WW1 fighter

Jack Bramwell (left) with son Alex Bramwell, 16, prepare for a canopy parachute jump later this year in aid of St Leonards Hospice in York

Father and son parachutists poised to take to skies to raise fund for hospice

RAF turns back the clock to save plane heritage for future

Flt Lt Ollie Suckling, GR4 Captain based at RAF Lossiemouth, Scotland, who started as a volunteer at the museum aged 15

Anniversary of V-bomber’s arrival marked at air museum

The Blackburn Buccaneer XV168, re-dedicated to the former Blackburn Aircraft workers who died as part of development and testing of the aircraft.

Service to remember crew who gave lives to aircraft

Over-60s in region ‘squeezed  by high prices and debt levels’

Drivers warned to allow extra time as city roadworks begin

148mph: York supercar beats land speed record

Golden era of bikes marked in a cloud of exhaust smoke

Government incompetence rivals Labour

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