Blurry, brilliant, real York
This is real York. Blurry video, but never mind. Captures something the tourist-orientated stuff doesn’t. Soundtrack from The Enemy, carefully chosen tracks. A favourite band and a well-known bus route home.
More …Monthly Archives: August 2012
Historypin: smartphone snapshots wanted
Months back I wrote about adding some photos to www.historypin.com.
I’m repeating myself because I’d like to encourage your ‘Historypin repeats’.
The most exciting aspect of Historypin is the way … More …
What’s underfoot
It’s the details that make a place, make the character of it. We don’t always notice them, until perhaps they’re hit by a different light in a different month, or washed by rain or defined by frost.
In … More …
She’s a girl of York city
Memories of a 1930s childhood in York, attending Scarcroft School, playing on the Stray, and skipping games. By Audrey, who now lives in the US.
I went to Scarcroft School, remember lovely miss Pollock there. … More …
New views on Parliament Street
Earlier this month, one evening, I was dashing past the end of Parliament Street and noticed this new and rather … More …
Subtext magazine, 1995-6
Subtext, a York-based magazine, appeared in the mid-1990s, at the tail-end of a Tory government. The National Lottery had been running for about a year. York’s ABB carriage works was about to close. … More …
York: 1960 and 2012
By Brodie Craven. Many hours condensed into around four and a half minutes. Watch this with the accompanying soundtrack. It’s stunning. ‘The idea was to tour as many of the sights of the City of York (UK) in the 16 hours between sunrise and sunset.’
And also, another gem from the Yorkshire Film Archive …
More …Reflections: Purey Cust development
Looking back to the ‘rich and poor’ social divisions of the 1930s reminded me that I hadn’t mentioned … More …