From this newspaper 100 years ago... On Saturday there was a football match at Bolton, in which five Scotsmen, two Welshmen, an Irishman, a Cheshire man and a Lincoln man, played against five Yorkshiremen and six men from Middlesex, Cheshire, Derbyshire and Durham.

These teams played under the amusing titles of Tottenham Hotspur and Sheffield United respectively, and the Tottenham team, consisting of five Scotsmen, two Welshmen &c., had the advantage, scoring three goals against their opponents' one.

For some reason it appears to have caused considerable pleasure to Middlesex players that five Scotsmen, two Welshmen &c., can inflict a handsome drubbing on a team in which a Middlesex man is playing.

We do not understand it ourselves, but having ceased to take any interest in a branch of our national athletics in which money is the chief aim and object, perhaps our opinion is not worth much.- St James's Gazette.

From this newspaper 50 years ago. - A Mosquito aircraft, with a pupil-pilot under instruction and an instructor practising one-engined landings at Leeming RAF Station on Thursday afternoon, overshot the runway and, while gaining height again across the Great North Road, struck the driver's cab of a passing lorry with a trailer attached...

The crew of the aircraft were uninjured and ran out to help the lorry driver and his mate in their crushed cabin...

The lorry and trailer were carrying eight tons of round cheeses for the Newcastle Co-operative Society, and part of the load was scattered about the field...

Airmen on crash guard duty from RAF Leeming had a turn of duty in the rich odour of the smashed cheeses.

From this newspaper 25 years ago. - Two young orang-utans will be the guests of honour at the Odeon children's show this morning when they will present prizes to the winners of a cinema competition run in connection with the 25th anniversary of the children's film foundation.

Cody and Anak, from Flamingoland will give the children vouchers to visit their home as well as many other small prizes