Comments on: Plan of York city centre shops, late 20th century … Coney Street, Davygate Centre, etc

By: Chris

Chris — Fri, 28 Jun 2019 13:44:42 +0000

No, I don’t think so. Perhaps I saw it somewhere else and I’m miss-remembering?

Thanks anyway!

By: Stephen

Stephen — Wed, 26 Jun 2019 10:53:02 +0000

This”EXPENSiVE” reader of yours still enjoys your thoughts,in spite of adversity and hard ships of old age,still find your column a joy to read,in spite of your current sparsity.Makes it all the more enjoyable “less equals more” these days

By: Chris Harrison

Chris Harrison — Tue, 25 Jun 2019 20:35:53 +0000

Hi. I enjoy reading your posts about York, having left in the early 90s I can track changes from my childhood days.
I recognise all the shops on the Coney Street plan and I think I bought sweets loose in the weighing shop? My brother used to work at the Athena as his Saturday job, and I worked for Woodcocks Bakers (Market Street) but their Clifton branch as my Saturday job.
We visit once a year now for the pantomime and the centre isn’t what it was, but where is?There’ll always be tourists though!
Thank you.

By: James

James — Tue, 25 Jun 2019 18:15:54 +0000

I remember that store! One of the lads that worked there was an acquaintance…Mark I think his name was? It was a great place. There was also a comic store in there for a while. It was definitely on my Saturday shopping rota when I was a teenager.

By: Lisa @YorkStories

Lisa @YorkStories — Tue, 25 Jun 2019 16:22:40 +0000

Hi Chris, thanks for adding your memories of shopping at the Davygate Centre. I think the York Press image gallery you mean is on this link?. It does include quite a few photos of the Davygate Centre, interior and exterior.

By: Chris

Chris — Sat, 22 Jun 2019 10:53:02 +0000

A radically younger me saved up his pennies and bought ‘Super Mario Kart’ from the little computer and video games shop in the bottom right of your map. Even back in that mid 90s period the Davygate Centre felt very 80s and very left behind.

There did used to be a nice image gallery of the Davygate Centre shops on the Press website but it looks to have disappeared* under a mass of adverts.

*Sadly a good number of the Press’ older galleries seem to have either disappeared or become non-functional.