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87 year old Margery Allison gives us her accounts of her childhood and her memories of York during World War II and how it has changed.
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My
york
story:
well,
actually,
I
was
born
well,
I
was
born
in
a
nursing
home,
but
my
parents
lived
in
micklegates.
My
father
always
said:
nickelgate
is
the
only
place
to
live.
You've
got
to
have
a
good
address
and
michael
gates,
the
address
you
have
to
have
which
actually
continued.
Because
years
later
we
moved
back
into
another
georgian
house
in
little
gates
where
I
did
grow
up
and
we
didn't
leave
there
until
1948.
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To
come
and
live
in
dreamhouses,
it
was
different
in
the
war
we
used
to
grumbled
about
york.
It
was
a
dull
city.
There
was
nothing
to
do
nothing
for
young
people
to
do
we
danced
at
the
co-op
and
occasionally,
at
the
degree
rooms.
I
had
a
private
education
because
that's
what
people
did
in
those
days
to
climb
the
the
ladder
you
went,
social.
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Now,
which
is
totally
different,
I
mean
we
had
independent
shops.
There
was
the
only
multiple
at
the
time
was
wars
and
then
marx
and
spencer
started
to
expand
where
they
are
now
into
food,
and
that
became
more
popular,
which
now
is,
is
the
place
to
be.
But
apart
from
betty's,
that
was,
the
luxury
was
going
to
betty's
orteris
for
afternoon
tea,
there's
more
entertainment.
Now
there
was
no
entertainment,
we
had
lots
of
cinemas
a
lot
of
cinemas.
There
was
a
cinema
in
coney
street,
a
cinema
in
tower
street,
a
cinema.
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Then
I
can
remember
my
when
the
bombs
dropped
on
no
thorpe
avenue.
My
dad
bought
all
the
bricks
from
their
bombed
out
houses
and
my
granddad
and
he
cleaned
the
bricks,
and
then
they
built
a
a
building
on
top
green,
which
I
think
is
a
nightclub.
Now
clifton
got
it
very
bad.
Ted's
sister
was
bombed
out,
but
those
days
york
was
very
dull.
There
wasn't
a
lot
to
do
no
and
we
just
had
private
shops,
good
shops,
but
but
all
private
marshall
and
snail
groves
grassdales.
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Then
there
was
another
garage
in
piccadilly,
then
people
started
in
moving.
Everybody
lived
over
the
businesses
in
those
days
and
then
people
started
moving
out
of
the
city
to
come
and
live
along
train
houses
and
along
the
main
road
everybody
that
had
lived
over
the
shops
in
the
city
were
living
on
tadcaster
road.