WHAT is the world coming to? Two hundred and seventy years of history obliterated at the stroke of a pen. I am appalled to read in your columns that the Falcon in Micklegate, York, has been renamed Rumours.
The earliest mention I have found of the Falcon is in 1730 but it was obviously well established by this time because six years later the historian, Francis Drake, described it as "one of two inns of good resort in this street".
By 1818 Hargrove tells us it was "a very excellent inn, the only one of consequence in the street" - and now Rumours!
I appreciate the need to project an image to attract the sort of clientele that frequents Micklegate but would not "Rumours at the Falcon" have achieved the best of all worlds?
By losing the Falcon we have lost part of our heritage.
Hugh Murray,
Vyner Street,
York.
Updated: 09:23 Saturday, September 14, 2002
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