Comments on: Rusty gates restored, and ridge and furrow ruminations

By: Margaret Taylor

Margaret Taylor — Sun, 25 Nov 2018 16:55:06 +0000

Hi Lisa,
Thank you so much for the suggestion. Yes, I would like my phone number and email removing from the site. In spite of visiting York from time to time over many years, I still look upon it as my “home town” and as New Earswick as my “village”.
Margaret

By: Lisa @YorkStories

Lisa @YorkStories — Sat, 24 Nov 2018 19:55:24 +0000

Hi Nick and Margaret, I hope you’ve been able to contact one another on the details provided, let me know if you’d like me to remove your personal phone numbers/email addresses from the comments,
Lisa
http://www.yorkstories.co.uk

(update, 25 Nov: thanks both for your messages, have edited comment info as agreed)

By: Margaret Taylor

Margaret Taylor — Fri, 23 Nov 2018 21:20:29 +0000

I tried your phone but left a somewhat garbled message so will do it this way too. Yes, I had a sister called Janet, but I am distressed to say that she passed away in 2003. I was at Mill Mount school 1945/52 but have been in Canada since 1969. However, no doubt about it,Tom is my cousin. My last trip to York was in 2016 to see the Mystery Plays in the Minster.

By: Nick Beilby

Nick Beilby — Wed, 21 Nov 2018 20:22:05 +0000

Margaret,
I attended Nunthorpe Grammar School from 1967-1972 and Tom Bardy was my Form Master when I was in the first form. He subsequently taught me for PE , Games, Maths and Biology and was greatly respected by us all. I spoke to Tom today and he asked if you had a sister called Janet. Feel free to call me on 07948418774.
Nick Beilby.

By: Margaret Taylor

Margaret Taylor — Thu, 15 Nov 2018 22:08:55 +0000

I came across this site while browsing and found Tom Bardy`s name. He is my cousin but I have not heard from him or anything about him in decades – too much moving around.
Do you have any information about him? Thank you.

By: John Sims

John Sims — Thu, 27 Sep 2018 15:25:13 +0000

Lisa
In the late 1940’s early 1950’s my mother was secretary and a player at York Womens Hockey Club and when she was playing on a Saturday my father used to take me as a toddler to watch York Rugby League just across the road.
In the mid to late 1950’s New Earswick Cub scouts for whom I was goalie played all there ‘home’ matches on the first pitch next to Asylum Lane.
In the 1960’s as a player for Nunthorpe Grammar School rugby team we would visit the playing fields to play Archbishop Holgates as all their home matches were played here.
Also, on the rare occasions that we would lower ourselves and go to watch York City, everyone from our side of York would park around the rugby ground, walk down Asylum Lane and over the wooden bridge to Bootham Crescent. As a child one always wondered how strong the bridge was as hundreds of people stomped over it!
Then they built the hospital and my wife went to work there until she retired. And now I am visiting every fortnight for treatment. Keep up the good work Lisa

John Sims