By: Deborah Roberts

Deborah Roberts — Wed, 07 Aug 2019 14:00:54 +0000

I left York in 1975 when I married and moved to Cambridge.
During the time of starting work ( 1962 to leaving ) Coney Street was a busy vibrant and central place to shop.
I bought perfume at the chemist / perfumery shop at the Guildhall end and my engagement ring was a really important purchase from the jewellers facing Leak and Thorpe ( were I bought my first Wonderbra ! )
There was a fabulous and authentic Chinese restaurant above a shop close to the centre of the street.
My mother would refer to girls of ill repute being ” as well known as the Coney Street clock ”
With girlfriends I would spent practically every Saturday afternoon shopping there .
This followed a drink before starting at the Star in Stonegate and ended with tea with those wonderful cake trolleys at Betty’s
I cannot understand how with its long history it was ever allowed to have such dreadful and common shop frontages imposed upon it.
Surely the answer to it thriving again is to make it once again individual Not any town any where as it became over the years .Tourists flock to the street such as Petergate because they are different.
Come on councillors show some initiative and demand quality in this historic street.

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