I HAVE just read the interesting article about Matthew Laverack’s family in The Press of May 18).

In the article a Harry Laverack is mentioned. I wonder if he is the same man that started Laveracks industrial estate in Elvington.

If he is he was a friend of my father and later on was my father’s employer for a while.

I remember when we were young there was a chimney on the site of the estate that Harry had bought, and we all went to watch as Harry, my father and a few others knocked the chimney down.

If my memory serves me right, the way they did it would have had the health and safety people tearing their hair out.

When the chimney fell and the dust had settled, we all went to stand on the rubble.

Happy days, also I think someone filmed it, although I am not sure about this.

DM Dale, Clifton Moor, York.