… in which we are transported through the streets of ‘old York’ via motorbike: what looks like East Parade in Heworth, as well as Spurriergate, High Petergate full of parked cars, etc. Includes several shots of the ordinary folk of York going about their business, including a group of women heading for the Rowntree’s factory, with its factory clock.
More …At last I’ve found one of these social media applications that does something I was needing a third-party application to do.
I often find images I want to keep track of, and end up bookmarking the whole page, and then can’t find them again. I spent about half an … More …
On their way to the FA Cup semi-final, in 1955. We try to deduce exactly where they were standing in relation to the gas works pictured behind them, as all those buildings are now gone.
More …Number 20 Blossom Street was built as the Forsselius car showroom, between the wars. The Pevsner guide calls it ‘a period piece well worth preserving’. Audrey, who now lives in the US, remembers it well, and the original Forsselius garage across the road.
“My father worked at Forsselius Garage in … More …
Prince of Wales in York, 1923. Let’s hope the good people of York aren’t quite so rowdy when HM The Queen visits this year …
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Glimpses of York – 1930s … barely any traffic, cyclists with acres of space on virtually empty roads. See the shot of the chap on the bike approaching Walmgate Bar, about 25 seconds in …
Also a nice film of scouts on the River Ouse, in the same decade.
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A quick tour of the famous historic bits — and a busy Coney Street — all described by one of those lovely posh voiceovers of the time.
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The York City team in training in 1938, when the Bootham Crescent ground was quite new. (See also other posts tagged YCFC). And another clip from britishpathe.com archives in which a woman appears to be hanging out her washing on Walmgate Bar.
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