The Baedeker Raid on York

6 Pickering Terrace



Katherine Cooper......aged 47.

Doris Elsie Leeming......aged 38.

June Doris Leeming......aged 7.

Three people died in the street that night: Mrs Katherine Cooper, from 6 Pickering Terrace and Doris Leeming and her seven-year-old daughter June, from No 4. For some reason, they hadn’t gone into the communal shelter like other people from the street. It is believed they were found under the dining room table.

Pickering Terrace only appears on pre-war maps. Until recent redeveolopment, it was just a back entrance to the old Shipton Street School. 



The above map is copyright of Old Maps and Ordnance Survey.

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Pickering Terrace is now the access road for the Bootham Green development.

Click this link for more details of this street from the 'Yorkstories' website.





The kerb of the grave of Katherine Cooper in York Cemetery.

Katherine Cooper's son, Kenneth, became Lord Mayor of York in 1984/5.






The Leeming grave is between the "kerbed plot" and the cultivated adge of the cemetery.