16 old photos of Acomb from the 1950s - 1990s

This is the first in a series of galleries featuring archive photographs from areas around York which featured in The Press over the years. Do you remember these scenes? Share your memories below....

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1) Children play in the snow on Acomb Green in December, 1975

2) The Circus Americano at Acomb Green in June 1973

3) The opening of the Acomb library in November 1969, which cost £28,500.

4) and 5) The new Acomb Working Men's Club, which cost £50,000 in Front Street in November 1970

6) The Presto supermarket in Front Street in 1979.

7) The new supermarket building takes shape in 1985, but locals described it as having a "grotesque and contemptuously insensitive design in the context of a conservation area". 

8) In 1989 more than 2,000 people signed a petition demanding action at the eyesore old Presto site, several years after its closure.

9) Front Street in 1990

10) Front Street in 1991

11) Front Street in 1979

12) A party in Danesfort Avenue to celebrate the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II in 1952

13) A well discovered by builders near Front Street in November 1967, which could date back to the 17th Century.

14) 3 June 1957 - The White Rose pub in Cornlands Road, Acomb, on its opening day

15) and 16) Scenes from the Bigfoot event at the York Railway Institute Sports Field in July 1992, including The Devastator, and a firewalker.

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