My abiding memory of the Olympic flame’s visit to York: a man on top of a massive blue bus/lorry, shouting, in Rougier Street.
Though it’s not exactly news now, thought I’d post this record of the event, from my rather underwhelmed perspective, along with my usual rubbish photos of the … More …
A quick snapshot of last week’s torch relay through Yorkshire, via tweets on Twitter.
The day before it arrived in York, I’d been moved to tears by the live coverage from Pickering town centre.
Watching the #bbctorchrelay for the first time, & listening to @bbcyork. Alison Bates, & … More …
Today saw the unveiling of a memorial to Bomber Command, to men who lost their lives around 70 years ago, during the Second … More …
For the last six months or so I’ve been pondering the assertions made by the Campaign for York, that the city centre of York would be killed, would die, if further expansion of the … More …
Perhaps by now everyone’s about the new online archive of aerial views of Britain.
It’s an exciting online resource, and is clearly getting a lot of traffic already. It may still be running slowly when you visit, as it was when I did – its servers have been strained … More …
The river’s up again, as June’s heavy rainfall, having accumulated in the Ouse, works its way through the city centre. Here’s the bottom of Cumberland … More …
One of the panels installed on the city’s buildings as part of the York Science and … More …
While looking for information regarding the shop at 25 Bootham, which of course at one time had the Roxy nightclub on the floors above it, I came across the following information, from the guidebook Birnbaum’s Great Britain, 1990:
NIGHTCLUBS AND NIGHTLIFE: York is not … More …
