Marked with a plaque: Woolman and Auden
This plaque, on a house in Bootham, marks the birthplace of W H Auden. It is of course fairly common practice now to mark with a plaque the place … More …
Monthly Archives: July 2012
Garden of rest: St Martin, Coney St
This ‘garden of rest’ in the centre of town is perhaps one of those overlooked places we walk past often but don’t … More …
Drinking fountains, cattle troughs
Here on the boundary of that familiar landscape known as the Museum Gardens is one of many local structures both familiar, in that we see it all the time, and unknown, in that we don’t use it. It’s a drinking fountain, proudly dated 1880, which has two faces, into the Gardens and onto Museum Street.
More …We sat on sarcophagi and snogged
A funny face … or that’s how I saw it. Actually it’s just a worn … More …
Walls, railings, access: St Leonard’s Place
Following on from up the banks, … More …
Approaches to the Anglian Tower
This image is a record of something we can’t see anymore. Well, not from this angle, not framed this way, as there’s wire mesh in the way.
It was … More …
Approaches … Anglian Tower – 3
We build, demolish, remodel, bury, excavate, open up, close down. There are so many layers to this place, in its centuries of change.
I live in an era where ‘opening up’ seems to be the thing, where ‘open access’ is a phrase used more and more often in so … More …
Approaches to the Anglian Tower – 2
There were bronze plaques on the walls here once. Two of them. One to explain the historical significance of this ruined building, and one to mark the life of an archaeologist who died here, on 22 July 1970.
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