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Joyce Warriner and family lived with her grandmother Ada Warriner at 35 Bilton Street from 1948 to 1950. The family moved when Joyce was two, to a house in Tang Hall, because of overcrowding. Joyce remembers returning to visit her other granny at 24 Bilton Street:

We used to come back and visit, it was the only house in the street with double gates, it had a yard with an airraid shelter in it, it had a front room middle room and kitchen, the stairs were through a door in the middle room, the Nolan family lived there

Thanks to Joyce for completing our questionnaire about living in Layerthorpe.

Rose E Senior lived at 23 Bilton Street. Andi Brigham sent us Rose’s memories:

Mum attended Bilton Street school which was across the road from where she lived … she said that she had to walk through pumpers alley to get to school, she remembers that all the children had to have a sleep in the afternoon for about an hour, they would sleep on the floor in the school.

Corner of Layerthorpe (road) and Bilton Street. Photo: Explore York Libraries and Archives

Bilton Street from Foss Islands Depot. Photo: Explore York Libraries and Archives

Back yard of 42-50 Layerthorpe and 1-3 Bilton Street. Photo: Explore York Libraries and Archives

Bilton Street School. Photo: Explore York Libraries and Archives