IT SEEMS many quarters and visitors are enthralled by the Dick Turpin, aka Richard story.

However, it seems that certain groups don’t want visitors to track down and appreciate the history and related venues.

The story goes that the outlaw was hanged at Tyburn, close to York Racecourse. I heard an American asking how to find it and if a bus went there.

The driver said: “Oh, I think you want the Pulleyn Drive stop.”

“I don’t understand,” said the American visitor. “I don’t recall Pulleyn Drive being mentioned in the history.”

Perhaps some people in our fair city needs to wake up to the fact that York’s visitors come for more than a ride on a “road train” or are solely interested in the Vikings.

Shouldn’t after all these years a marketing ploy be instigated and call and label the stop “Tyburn” as well as Pulleyn Drive or rewrite the history to the effect that Dick Turpin was hanged at Pulleyn Drive?

Kevin J. Ward, Lindsey Avenue, York.