Stephen’s long ‘York Walk’ – 1950s

“Dancing memories, of the 1950’s, (before you arrived on the York scene), when our Saturday night treat, was ‘Boy Meets Girl’ at the DeGrey Rooms in exhibition square, keeping up the tradition started by our wartime hero air men. It then involved using the last of the night’s cash, to get a taxi (a Vauxhall from Musem St) to get her home to Acomb,and with luck a ‘goodnight kiss’,(Oh! the innocence of those days!!)

Then came the long trudge home, via, Front St, Acomb Rd, Wilton Rise, the Footbridge over the railway, Cinder Lane, your ‘Marble arch Tunnel’, Post office Lane, Scarboro’Bridge, under railway line, Longfield, Bootham and Grosvenor Terrace, Glass bridge, Asylum Lane (I still don’t like re-namings,or Political Correctness,wash your mouth out Steve!),Wigginton/Haxby rd Junction, (use the toilet there ,now defunct,as it’s a long walk!), on to Rowntrees, Kitchener St, Huntington Rd, Fossway, and at last Home, now that’s what I call a ‘’York Walk’’!That’s how I met my lovely wife,and had to do that ‘performance’ what seems like a thousand times,before we went down St Stephen’s aisle to wed.”