YORK The community known as York was settled hundreds of years ago. The Romans and even the Vikings had a role to play in its history. My wife and I decided to see what today’s York looked like. We focused on the street known as the Shambles. Where half a millennium ago the Shambles was the ‘butcher’s row’, where citizens would come to haggle over the price and quality of beef, lamb, pork and fowl, today the butchers’ stalls have been replaced by souvenir shops, t-shirt emporiums,  more...