I WAS recently driving down Knavesmire Road and noticed that the street scene had changed.

The brick-built one-storey building that used to stand near the Mount Vale end had disappeared.

I recall no comment in the paper, no outcry that yet another part of our history was being lost.

I believe it was built to house the headquarters of York’s Civil Defence from where the city’s response to German air raids was co-ordinated during the Second World War.

Surely going on past form it could have been made into a museum recording the damage caused to the city by enemy action. Better still it could have formed the terminus for the resurrected York tram system.

Perhaps some enlightened person can explain this conundrum to me.

While they are at it, they can also comment on the nose-to-tail parking which now exists down both sides of the road every weekday making it something of a chicken run at times.

Peter Turner, Whin Road, Dringhouses, York

 

Editor’s note: The 1940s former Royal Observer Corps building has been demolished to make way for a new £600,000 clubhouse and community cafe for Hamilton Panthers Football Club.