By: Kelly

Kelly — Thu, 20 Oct 2016 22:04:23 +0000

I love the 1960s/70s gates with the name of Bootham Park Hospital on, such a shame they are also deteriorating.

By: Drake

Drake — Fri, 14 Oct 2016 09:27:46 +0000

Painting the holly could be a new Christmas custom.

By: david Bower

david Bower — Thu, 13 Oct 2016 14:11:08 +0000

As a teenager in the late nineteen sixties, I would regularly walk from my home in St Olaves Road Clifton, to my Grandmother’s who lived in Stanley Street Haxby Road. It was only a fifteen minutes walk over the footbridge, and along Asylum Lane. This was the name my Mother and Grandmother always used, although at this time it was named Bridge Lane. At this time there was a mature hedge on the opposite side of the lane to the wall, and beyond this a large expanse of grassland where the hospital now stands. I used to play football there with friends, and also remember York City would use it for training. I also remember watching a school rugby game adjacent to Wiggington Road between my school Lowfields, and Park Grove, who used the area as playing fields. There was a rudimentary changing hut next to the ornate gates mentioned in your article. I seem to remember it was oval in shape, and built of Asbestos sheets, rather like the garages of the forties and fifties.
Adjacent to the rear entrance to Bootham Park there was a lovely Victorian / Edwardian villa type house, probably once belonging to the Bootham Park groundkeeper. Unfortunately this was demolished when the entrance was widened and the Nurses Accomodation built in the mid seventies, ironically now also demolished !

Comments on: A walk along Bridge Lane

By: Kelly

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