Thank you to Richard Taylor our guest speaker at our June monthly meeting who took us on a virtual tour following in the footsteps of the Georgians around York.
Some of the people and places we heard about:
The Black Swan and The George Coaching Inns in Coney Street
Madame Tussauds and her exhibitions in the Assembly Rooms in Blake Street;
Dora Jordon comic actress on the Yorkshire circuit and starred at the York Theatre Royal (her colourful private life included being mistress to the future King William IV);
Mary Tuke’s cocoa and chocolate business in Walmgate (later moved to Coppergate and bought by Henry I Rowntree);
The York Lunatic Asylum scandal;
The Judges Lodgings, York Debtors Goal, and the Assizes Courts
A very enjoyable and entertaining evening