Having read your piece on St Leonard’s Place (Return to splendour for crescent, September 22) I wonder what will happen to the No.1 and No.5 bus stops.

Will the new owners want about eight to 10 buses per hour, with often noisy last buses at 11.15pm and 11.30pm, stopping directly outside their houses, along with the polluted air from these buses?

I get the No.5 and often the queue stretches almost the length of the building, the pavement gets quite congested and the air quality is often terrible! Do you think First York will move the stop? Though I don’t know where they will move it to.

Linda Cuddy, Strensall, York

The restoration of these beautiful buildings looks stunning and is a welcome addition to the area, but I am surprised that the architects’ drawings of the finished project omits the bus stops on the pavement just in front of the elegant houses. On second thoughts, perhaps I’m not!

Are there any plans to relocate the bus stops from this very convenient site? If so, where?

Dorothy Reed Middlethorpe Drive, York

Reading the article on St Leonard’s Place in The Press (September 22), took me back to my days in the late 1960s and early 70s, as a trainee architectural technician with the then York City Council, Architects Department, which occupied, at various times, numbers 8 and 9 St. Leonard’s Place.

The photo of the attic room reminded me of a similar room, being the venue for lunchtime table tennis sessions. This small room, barely large enough to take the table, would often be filled with players and spectators, and could become rather humid during an intense match session. Consequently the small sash windows would always be fully open, and on more than one occasion a foul shot would send a ball out of the building, probably landing on the head of some unsuspecting citizen in the bus queue below.

Other memories include the drawing office, with old-fashioned drawing boards, propped on the incline on bricks wrapped in tracing paper, the wall bedecked with Penthouse centrefolds (no PC in those days), which would be hurriedly taken down in the event of a visit by civic dignitaries or minors. Then, of course, there were the Christmas parties, held in the Education Group drawing office, whilst the disapproving City Architect sat quietly fuming in the adjacent room. Happy days!

Richard Carr – Chartered Architect Station Road, Upper Poppleton