WHAT has the council done with the historical notice that hung for 40 years - until about five years ago - on the side of Micklegate Bar, overlooking the passage between the bar and the Citizen's Advice Bureau.
It measured about 30 by 40 inches, was in gilt letters on black, headed Micklegate Bar, and told how Richard Duke of York's head was put on the bar "so that York might look on York". Thomas, Earl of Northumberland's head was also put there, in 1572, as had been his ancestor Hotspur's after the Battle of Shrewsbury. Two Jacobites' heads were put there for seven and a half years after the 1745 rebellion.
Put back the notice. My three attempts to get the council to do so have failed.
Francis Radcliffe,
Millfield Road, York.
Updated: 10:57 Thursday, August 07, 2003
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