Home Guard

Maps from the 1300s onwards are on display

Newly-discovered map reveals the WW2 'invasion plan' put in place in Pocklington

This is the former Home Guard Club on Belford Road.

'Community goodwill' helped overcome anti-mosque campaign

John Plaistowe is pictured at the arts centre with the map produced by Pocklington Home Guard in 1939.

Unique Pocklington Home Guard map from 1939 added to heritage exhibition at the ...

The former Home Guard building in Harrogate

Anonymous letters sent to residents against plans for first mosque in Harrogate

There are calls for NHS staff, carers and all those who have responded to the Covid pandemic to be awarded medals.

Give NHS staff medals as thanks for Covid service: Yorkshire Post Letters

The Black Horse Inn at Rawcliffe Bridge

Plans to turn waterways pub with colourful history into a house

World War Two veteran Harold Wood, who served in the Home Guard, outside the Post Office on Lendal in 2019

York post office which WW2 veteran campaigned to save will become steakhouse

Kevin McNally as Captain Mainwaring, Robert Bathurst as Sergeant Wilson, Kevin Eldon as Lance Corporal Jones, David Hayman as Private Frazer, Timothy West as Private Godfrey, Tom Rosenthal as Private Pike and Mathew Horne as Private Walker. Picture: UKTV

Permission to speak: Is this weekend’s Dad’s Army remake wise, sir?

Haworth 1940s Weekend

Military re-enactors threaten to boycott Haworth 1940s Weekend over 'smelly burg...

File photo dated 10/12/2003 of comedy writers Jimmy Perry (left) and David Croft with their lifetime achievement award during for the annual British Comedy Awards.

YP Letters: Jimmy and David's comic genius hits home

Jimmy Perry (left) and David Croft with their lifetime achievement award during for the annual British Comedy Awards.

Jimmy Perry, creator of TV classic Dad's Army, dies at 93

File photo dated 10/12/2003 of comedy writers Jimmy Perry (left) and David Croft with their lifetime achievement award during for the annual British Comedy Awards. Croft, who wrote hit sitcoms including Dad's Army and Are You Being Served? died today aged 89, his agent said. PRESS ASSOCIATION Photo. Issue date: Tuesday September 27, 2011. See PA story DEATH Croft. Photo credit should read: Ian West/PA Wire

Creator of TV's Dad's Army dies aged 93

Migrants being rescued by the Italian authorities in the Mediterannean.

YP Letters: Home Guard could do a better job than our Border Force

Restored footage of the Thornton Home Guard in Bradford between 1941-44. Picture: Yorkshire Film Archive

Video: See the real Dad's Army defend Bradford from Hitler - in colour

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YP Letters: Pipe-smoking soldiers of the real Dad's Army

The skyline of Bradford

Four things you should know in Yorkshire

Home Guard - Rotherham
10th April 1941

How the real Dad's Army '˜would have put up one hell of a fight'

Bridlington bracing itself for the Dad's Army effect

A helicopter removing trees from Burbage.

The great British bark off '¨as axe falls in valley

Philip Gascoyne (right) pictured with actor Daniel Mays who plays Walker in the new Dad's Army film

Fall in! Retired council worker lands role in Dad’s Army remake

Catherine Zeta Jones in action

Filming goes swimmingly for Dad’s Army star Zeta Jones
ACTRESS Catherine Zeta Jones found herself all at sea as filming continues for a big screen remake of Dad’s Army off the Yorkshire coast.

New Dad’s Army has big names battling  to join up

The original cast of Dad's Army: Arthur Lowe as Capt George Mainwaring, John Le Mesurier as Sgt Arthur Wilson, Clive Dunn as L-Cpl Jack Jones, John Laurie Pvt James Frazer, Arnold Ridley as Pvt Charles Godfrey, Ian Lavender as Pvt Frank Pike.

New Dad’s (Yorkshire) Army has big names battling to fall in

Servicemen and civilians waiting to board the train as it pulls into Pickering station

Video: Blast from the past at Pickering’s wartime weekend

Mr Parsons the butler prepares for the 1940's event at Brodsworth Hall near Doncaster

Video: Home Front remembered at Brodsworth Hall

Advanced party recce hall ahead of reopening

Blast from the past averted as wartime explosives discovered at Castle Howard gr...