I UNDERSTAND that an exhibition is to be held in September to honour George Russell, the local man who perfected the modern lupin. In his earlier years he was gardener at Dringthorpe which is now the site of Yorkcraft and St Leonard's Hospice.
After he retired my father occasionally employed him at busy times. I remember him very well and walked along with him several times on my way to school. He would be pushing his heavy wheelbarrow from his allotment to his home in Kensington Street.
His allotment, where he perfected his lupins, was alongside the concrete road which extends from Bishopthorpe Road to the back of racecourse grandstands. A car boot sale is held on most Saturdays throughout the summer on the old allotment area.
As far as I know this stretch of concrete road has no name, so what a fitting tribute and memorial it would make to this grand old gentleman to name this road George Russell Way. All future race traffic which enters via this route could be directed along George Russell Way, Bishopthorpe Road.
John A Elliott,
Slingsby Grove,
York.
Updated: 10:13 Friday, August 06, 2004
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