IT seems strange that the "anonymous" poet has waited until now to condemn Walmgate.
My aunt, now dead, lived in York for many years. She went to work at Clifton Hospital in the Thirties then married a York man before the Second World War.
She once asked where a friend of mine lived and when I told her Walmgate, she exclaimed: "Oh dear, no respectable woman ever went to Walmgate".
I asked her why and she said it wasn't a very nice area.
The term "lowlife" was not a familiar word to my aunt, but that is what she ascribed to the people that frequented Walmgate even back then.
Maybe Walmgate has just gone full circle?
W Elliott,
Kinbrace Road,
Hartlepool.
Updated: 10:25 Wednesday, September 19, 2001
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