1901 Population 4,616 (N/A) 474 (Romanby) 1,352 (Brompton)

1901 Ernest Hutton of Solburge Hall Built Motor Cars in N/A helped by the Hon. C.S. ROLLS. (of Rolls Royce)

1903 County Hall Building started on Racecourse Lane

1905 Wensleydale Pure Milk Society formed in N/a

1906 County Hall Opened

1907 John Todd's Applegarth Mart Opened

1908 New Police Headquarters Built next to County Hall in Racecourse Lane.

1908 Applegarth School opened in Springwell Lane at a cost of £4,329.8s

1910 Police Headquarters Opened

1910 Grammar School moved to new site on back lane (renamed Grammar School Lane)

1911 (6 December) Drill Hall opened In Thirsk Road

1913 Market Cross Reinstalled after move to Standard House in 1872 (Originally built in 1777)

1914 (15 May) 1st fatal Air Crash in area. Near Lovesome Hill. Both Pilot and Mechanic Killed

1914/1920 N/A's first motorbus, the "Scarlet Runner" Operated from Smirthwaites garage ( now ARGOS)

1920 Central Cinema Built on what was Melbourne Yard

1921 (August) War Memorial unveiled by Sir Hugh Bell (Lord Lieutenant of the North Riding )

1926 (July) Princess Mary Came to N/A. (She was married to Viscount Lascelles (Soon to be Lord Harewood))

1927 New Registry of Deeds Built In Racecourse Lane (opposite County Hall)

1928 Viscount Lascelles laid the foundation stone for the Church House in Romanby Road

1929 Present Post Office Built on the site of a private house owned by the Caffin Family.

1930 (July) Friarage street and north end of high street flooded

1937 New Court House Built in Racecourse Lane (opposite County Hall)

1937 United Auto Services Bus Station Built by Dan Oakley Ltd.

1939 (28 October) Lyric Cinema opened

1939 (October) to 1987 (January) The Mount Was the Maternity Hospital for the Area

1940 Allertonshire County Modern School built, First Pupils Started in September 1941

1941 Bombs Dropped on N/A (County Hall, Applegarth Mart, Ashlea Road, South Parade and rear of Hatfield Road/Thirsk Road.

1949 (24 July) N/A Cricket Club opened new Ground Off Boroughbridge Road