Family seeks memories of York man killed in 1969 accident

I AM hoping your readers might be able to help me fill a deeply important gap in my family’s history.

I am searching for anyone who remembers my grandad, Melvyn Roy Medd, or his family.

Melvyn was a 24-year-old labourer living at 24 Morrison Road, Acomb (or perhaps Stuart Road), when he tragically lost his life following a road-works accident on Acomb Road (near the junction with Ridgeway) on March 21, 1969.

At the time of the accident, he was working on a North Gas conversion project, and he left behind his young widow, my grandmother Jane Medd.

Because he passed away so young, our family has very few personal memories, stories, or photographs of him from his time living and working in York.

I am appealing to your older readership – perhaps former neighbours from Morrison Road, old school friends, or former work colleagues from the regional gas board – to see if anyone remembers Melvyn or my family.

If anyone has any memories or photos they would be willing to share, it would mean the world to me.

I can be contacted at the details below.

Kellyann Dawn Medd

(kellyannbiggs43@gmail.com)

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York meeting planned to support food security

WITH the government planning a new campaign to improve the nation’s resilience to extreme weather events and hostile attacks, we need to talk about food security.

The advice to stock up on tinned food is all well and good for those that can afford it, and have space for storage, but many people don’t have those kinds of resources.

Could York do more to support local people and produce its own food?

Planet South Bank and Clements Hall surveyed passers by on Bishopthorpe Road for an hour on a Sunday afternoon recently, and the overwhelming response was ‘yes’.

In contrast, when asked if the UK government is able to respond adequately to protect us from food shortages, or willing to act as needed, a majority of people said ‘no’.

Almost everyone wanted to know more about what is being done locally, and the response unanimously positive to the suggestion to come together and create a plan for South Bank.

The work begins to make that happen now, with a meeting at Clements Hall, Nunthorpe Road, York on Monday, October 5 at 7.30pm.

If you’ve got skills, ideas, energy, or time to give, please join us. Email enquiries@clementshall.org.uk to get involved.

Kate Lock,

Address supplied

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‘Come on Andy, we all know you want to rejoin the EU’

OUR new Prime Minister eyes EU deals on farming and steel, the only problem being everyone is aware he is an ardent European whose ultimate aim through subterfuge is for us to rejoin this uneconomic, bureaucratic controlled cartel known as “the single market” but lacks the guts to ask the population if they wish to do the same.

Peter Rickaby,

Moat Way,

Brayton

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