A PROUD former cricketer showed off a winning ball in this photograph from the archives of the Wharfedale Observer.

Harold Harrison, of Yeadon, had used the ball to take 10 wickets for 18 runs in a league match nearly 50 years earlier. In the undated photograph Mr and Mrs Harrison, who had just celebrated their Golden Wedding Anniversary, are pictured with their grandson Christopher.

A picture from a bygone age of journalism shows the two longest-serving keyboard operators in the Wharfedale Observer’s type-setting department. Mr A. P. Abram had 51 years service, while Mr P. Johnson had 49 years service when the photograph was taken.

First World War sentence by Richard Thackrah

Excavations on the site of the Roman fort to ascertain the amount and depth of the debris of the Roman period. This will help to work out the cost of a complete evacuation of the site.