By: Martyn

Martyn — Thu, 27 Jun 2013 15:06:54 +0000

I hadn’t realised Sessions had closed which shows how much attention I pay to what’s happening locally most of the time - when I first moved to York we lived nearby and I remember being told by the man in the newsagent that it was a local institution of the kind which York seemed (to an outsider) to specialise in - family business, sound values, strong local identity and affection. Sorry that it’s gone and the factory is falling into disrepair. York has changed so much in the 18 years since we moved here, not always for the better. That Quaker thread which ran through the life of the city seems to be losing its strength and identity.

By: Mick Phythian

Mick Phythian — Mon, 24 Jun 2013 18:45:44 +0000

The YNEP comment will be by my YNET colleague Barry Potter, as Bill was such an avid supporter of YNET and all things green. I probably have lying in the roof somewhere repeat letters from Bill over the years asking me (most politely) to get on and recreate ‘The Strays & Ways of York’ that he had helped write and publish back in about 1967, unfortunately people have borrowed all the copies I’d managed to find and now all I have is a poor photocopy someone put in YNET’s copy of ‘A Register of Green Sites in York’ that my friend Martin Hammond produced in 1991. The booklet promoted the concept of an ‘Outer Green Way’ linking the Strays, river bank walks, the Ings and existing parks and suggested this for the York Development Plan. Bill was always such an optimist!

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