I have followed with great interest the letters regarding babies born in the Shambles. I am a member of the Shepherd who family lived at No.9 Shambles, and had three sisters born there in 1939, 1940 and 1943.

We lived in Shambles from 1936 to 1946. My thanks to Richard Burton for mentioning the Shepherd family.

Mrs Laura Webb (nee Shepherd),

Burnholme Drive,

Heworth,

York.

...I have been very interested in the letters concerning people born in Shambles, as I have a friend who was born at No 1. Obviously, your recent correspondents were all born after the late Jack Houlgate and I am now wondering who is the oldest person to be born in Shambles and still living.

My friend, Mrs Joyce Douglas (nee Wood), was born in 1919 and will be 80 next month. Actually, her sister Constance was born in 1915 and is still alive but lives in Kent; so is there a Shambles baby in York older than this?

Mrs G Townend,

Askham Bryan,

York.

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