This gallery showcases the stories making the news around Yorkshire in 1962. And all four corners of the county are featured – from York and and Halifax through to Filey and Whitby as well as the Yorkshire Dales and the Yorkshire Wolds. The photos, plucked from the YEP archive, feature some familiar faces as well as well-known landmarks. READ MORE: 21 photo memories take you around Yorkshire in 1961 YEP RETRO NEWSLETTER: Sign up for our free monthly email digest of Leeds nostalgia
9. Seamer
Seamer, voted the tidiest village with over 480 population, by the Scarborough and Pickering branch of the Society for the Preservation of Rural England in August 1962. Photo: YPN
10. Hebden Bridge
Buttress Brink (upper Road) and Royd Terrace (lower road) two roads that lead off old-gate Hebden Bridge pictured in July 1962. Photo: Halifax Courier
11. Yorkshire Wolds
The scene on the York-Bridlington Road, near the top of Garrowby Hill in January 1962. Photo: YPN
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