Comments on: Acomb

By: william charlton

william charlton — Fri, 26 Jul 2019 01:28:07 +0000

At the 87 I can go a little further back, how about the old brick yard situated at the end of old Dog Kennel Lane, today it is the site of the Acorn Rugby Club. How about our swimming holes the shallows, clay holes & ten foot around the same area. Maggie Thorps sweet shop gale Lane & Tudor road
.The fish shop in Gale Lane has been around since the early 40’s I remember it first opening Mrs Smith server the customers for many years

By: Deborah Roberts

Deborah Roberts — Mon, 17 Jun 2019 17:21:48 +0000

Remember your name Nigel .When were you born , me 1947.
Was the little fellow concerned known as Little Johnny .
He was the dearest chap who had very special needs.
The girls at school and the teachers were very loving to him.
Miss Langshaw in particular made sure he was never bullied.He stayed at Westfield until his very early death at around 10 .Pat Bean was a friend of mine and I often biked down to her families farm .

By: Nigel Deamer

Nigel Deamer — Fri, 26 Apr 2019 07:18:41 +0000

Going to Westfield school in the 1950’s I remember going on a nature walk down Grange Lane with Miss Gibbs and there use to be a pond at the end of the lane going to Beans farm and one of the group fell in I think his name was Jhony Simpson Miss Gibbs jumped in to save him got him out and told someone to go to the farm and telphone the school and Miss Langshaw turned up in her car. Does any body remember this incident we lived in Tennet Road at the time also remember many happy hours on Bachlor Hill.

By: David J Long

David J Long — Sun, 21 Apr 2019 15:07:54 +0000

Chappel fields was just very nice hillside. I have photograph of the end house in Askham lane with a field next to it. My father who wealed a paint brush (artist type) painted a picture of farm building at Chapel fields. You could walk up grange lane and come out by the last house in Wetherby Road.
Fox wood land did indeed have the kennels ( have photo of these in run down state). This lane did not go all the way metaled into Gale lane, but had a mud section. There was petrol station (BP) at the end of Gale lane and of course the brick works. The kilns where home to vagrant my father had words to him. I was told not repeat them to Mother. York itself was most interesting, The Scala Cinema was known to me, it was the last place on DC mains penultimate Leak & Thorpe) supply. Very old equipment. Had an orchestra pit in case the talkies did not catch on. The Tower was the only one with stereo sound. When it closed I made visit and got the slides (50 x 50 size) from the demolition guys (York relay!, Persil washes whiter). Also one of the secondary gas lights, we have this is our hall way. I was also aware that one of the earliest cimema was the Victoria Hall Goodramgate. One day I was in Briar Ave and saw an enameled board holding up a fence. Yes We have a Victoria Hall sign, Sidney Bacons pictures it proclaims.
ACOMB libary was not always where it is now, for time the friends meeting house was used (by tha snikat)
you could walk down the first bit of Danebury Drive, it went to mud ( as beckfield lane did!) and then there was path up to Beckfild lane crossing the river (now in pipe) by a rather nice little bridge. There was 2 of these lanes coming down from Beckfield lane the other one to the one I refer, had a family living in a Railway Cartridge. The son went to school with me. His father was the repair man for Colibourne tv dept.He was called David **** hell is memory going!
The beech woods where as they are now basically although I noticed their has been some felling. You can see the driveway to the Blue House? that stood where Woodlea Ave garden are now. The fish ponds where is a disgusting state and where filled it regrettably. The outflow of these ran open towards the bungalows in Danbury drive and then into the river which is under rear garden to the houses. This river wen then down the side of the Carr Junior School (open ditch) and on under Boroughbidge road by the Catholic Church.
There was en evimental disaster called Eliots limited that had a garage on Wetherby road next to Briar Ave. It was a mess of the 1st order. They also had a place at the top of Ostman Raod where Albermarle road is now. Same sadie as Inn’s Shop They moved to part of Rufforth airfield.
The tram shelter at the Regent was till there, as was the round one at Holgate, the one at Acomb was few meters inside York, aparntly there was automatic trolley turner at this terminus the poles for which always mystified me when I was alad (no wires by then of course)
Mr Cross the chief at the junior school in Ostman Raod, not a very good head as also some of the teachers where poor. My greatest achievement there was tell Mrs Barns what I thought of her on the last day- Mother Went berserk!

By: alan powell

alan powell — Sat, 09 Mar 2019 10:33:28 +0000

Hello Margaret, I was a close friend of Davids, and came to your Grannys house a few times, I lived on Front St, Used to hate it when you came to take David Home. i remember the fire and Davids death , .
we were due to go into the junior school in the September, he died during the holidays as I remember, I am Alan Powell

By: Deborah Roberts

Deborah Roberts — Sun, 03 Mar 2019 19:06:07 +0000

Coming back to this article wondering if anyone remembers Grange Farm down Grange Lane , Acomb.
I used to go there to see my friend Pat Bean who’s family owned the farm.
Georgian type building set back from the lane.
The house had a wonderful old kitchen and I think two staircases .
We lived in a two up two down council property so I was in awe of this to my eye enormous rambling place.
IF my memory is correct they bred pigs in a barn just behind the lovely old farm house itself.
I biked there from Tudor Road down a narrow country road that on google maps seems now to come to a stop before the by pass .In the past you could I think get all the way through to Rufforth .
Pat went to Westfield School were we met then onto Acomb Secondary , but, I think her parents then sent her somewhere privately.