Find out how Christmas was celebrated down the streets and passageways of York
, in Minster Yard. They take around an hour and a half, and guests will discover a few facts and even more fascinating fables en route.
A Knaresborough lass, Sarah admits that school and she never really “worked well together. I couldn’t wait to get out into the big wide world, and to leave. It wasn’t a case of having my imagination fired by the teachers, quite the reverse. When I left, in my mid-teens, I headed off for London, and I studied music for a while, as working for a greetings-card company, and as a sales advisor for Harrods.
The Guides were first set up in the early 1950s, as part of the celebration of the Festival of Britain, and entry to their numbers is very hard won.Sarah Cowling, York historian, storyteller and Blue Badge Guide, has set up a new attraction, the 'York Christmas Walking Tour'. Picture: James Hardisty.
Sarah returned to Yorkshire eight years ago, and has established herself as one of the very few Blue Badge Guides in the region. But she insists that “I never pass myself off as a specialist, I am a tour guide, offering information – and frequently getting a lot back for the people who follow me around. All I can do is to offer a snapshot of times gone by, some interesting glimpses, and to open a few doors into the past.
"For big clients like that, I work in close collaboration with an agency, and they know the contacts to go to."There was another gentleman who was obsessed with Richard III, and another for whom we were able to open the doors to a huge private collection of paintings by Turner, right here in Yorkshire.
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