Comments on: Leeman Road industrial heritage – queries http://yorkstories.co.uk/leeman-road-industrial-heritage-queries/ A resident's record of York and its changes Wed, 05 Mar 2025 17:45:53 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.38 By: YorkStories http://yorkstories.co.uk/leeman-road-industrial-heritage-queries/#comment-496 Thu, 31 May 2012 09:43:04 +0000 #comment-496 You’re right about how quickly things seem like ‘history’ – I’ve recently re-read the Esher report, and a book on Bishophill by George Pace, published circa 1980. Both illustrate that there have been massive changes locally in the last few decades, despite the fact that people think of York as not changing much. The York they describe seems already gone, and rather quaint, with all those factory workers cycling to work at Rowntree’s, Terry’s and the carriageworks …

Glad you mentioned Van Wilson’s books – I’ve been meaning to include mention myself. Should also probably mention my own … which I keep forgetting to effectively promote … http://www.yorkstories.co.uk/books/index.htm

]]> By: Patrick Kelly http://yorkstories.co.uk/leeman-road-industrial-heritage-queries/#comment-495 Thu, 31 May 2012 07:57:17 +0000 #comment-495 Couldn’t agree more about the lack of written information about our recent history. There’s plenty of raw material – newspaper archives, council papers, oral histories – but apart from the excellent Van Wilson’s publications – there’s very little in the way of books on the subject. York isn’t the only place where this is true – most local historians tend to end their researches at the Second World War. It’s as if we don’t consider the recent past axs “history” – when of course it is the history which has had the most impact on our lives now.

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