Comments on: Lost Layerthorpe

By: Lisa @YorkStories

Lisa @YorkStories — Sun, 10 Jan 2016 22:53:56 +0000

Thanks to all contributors to this page, with far more comments added than any other on this site. First comment from Stephen on 9 October 2012, last comment on it by Trev on 18 December 2015. I'm closing the comments now as running alongside it since late summer 2015 has been the Layerthorpe project website: layerthorpe-project.yorkstories.co.uk/. We've just recently added some fascinating memories of the area: layerthorpe-project.yorkstories.co.uk/memories-of-layerthorpe, and former residents finding this page will, I hope, answer the questionnaire. Thanks to everyone who contributed to this page, and rebuilt 'Lost Layerthorpe'. Lisa @YorkStories

By: Trev; A

Trev; A — Fri, 18 Dec 2015 23:12:09 +0000

Remember Rington’s tea man coming once a week with the horse and covered cart. I can still picture him.

By: Trevor keeler

Trevor keeler — Thu, 10 Dec 2015 20:45:23 +0000

Just thinking about this site brings back a memory of the co-op milkman with his horse drawn cart. The bottles had cardboard tops that we lads would flick down the street to see who could fit them the furthest. The girls used to do something with “raffia” to make little mats. When the bottle tops changes to tin foil we could flick them with two fingers and make them fly like flying saucers. When my mum got a piano my dad collected it using a hired horse and cart. When we moved out the piano went to the Boys Club but I don’t remember how it got moved.

By: Sandra Wreglesworth

Sandra Wreglesworth — Thu, 10 Dec 2015 10:21:31 +0000

I am hoping to get a few of their memories on to paper the next time I visit them Trevor. They are always reminiscing about their days in Layerthorpe and of course dad goes a bit further back than mum because he was born there in 1924. He didn’t leave until the end apart from his Army days.

By: Lisa @YorkStories

Lisa @YorkStories — Wed, 09 Dec 2015 19:10:37 +0000

It would be lovely to have a record of your parents memories. Could you perhaps add them to the Layerthorpe project site at http://layerthorpe-project.yorkstories.co.uk/mapping-20th-century-layerthorpe/? Just about to add an updated map, and we also have some new information from the questionnaire (http://layerthorpe-project.yorkstories.co.uk/questionnaire-living-in-layerthorpe-area-20th-century/). Thanks to everyone for sharing your memories and knowledge there too.

By: Trevor keeler

Trevor keeler — Mon, 07 Dec 2015 17:35:08 +0000

Hi Shiela
I remember your brother and I remember Bernard Durkin by name but not able to conjure up a picture of him. Did Rajymond go to Nash court one summer with the Boy’s club? Or is my memory playing tricks. I was born in 1941. I don’t remember you though, I probably had not discovered girls just then.