RECENT articles in the Evening Press have referred to Crichton Avenue being named in memory of York's first woman Lord Mayor, Edna Annie Crichton. This is somewhat erroneous.
On December 16, 1929, the estates and housing committee of the city council was quite specific in its recommendation that the new street on the Burton Lane Estate be named 'in memory of David Sprunt Crichton, whose memory is so highly honoured in that district'.
Mr Crichton, the husband of Edna Annie, was the welfare officer at Rowntree & Co for 20 years up to his death on January 24, 1921, aged 57. His work must have touched the lives of many of the expanding workforce at the company, whose enlightened treatment of employees was legendary.
The avenue was complete and fully occupied ten years before Mrs Crichton occupied the Mansion House.
David Poole,
Penyghent Avenue,
York.
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