Beautiful, musical, Rievaulx
I know it’s a bit late in the day to mention it, but if you’re stuck for something to do tomorrow (30 June) and are near enough to it, I wanted to mention Medieval Music and … More …
Monthly Archives: June 2013
Appreciating weedy greenness: brownfield style
The Hungate development site, with Stonebow House rising up like some kind of brutalist concrete ship from a sea of greenery. This kind of site may be weedy, mainly made up of the ubiquitous buddleia, but it has its own apparently limitless vigour. It needs no maintenance, no artificial feeding or watering, and is valuable to smaller creatures even if we don’t value it much.
More …Sessions, Huntington Road
King’s Square: moments captured, remembered
As the ‘reinvigoration’ of King’s Square is due to start in a couple of months I’m adding a few more pages recording how it was, how it is.
More …Burnholme Club, a ‘fantasy villa’ facing demolition
Update, April 2014: the demolition of the building is due to begin shortly.
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Burnholme Club/Burnholme WMC, or to give it its posher name, Burnholme Hall. A striking building, which once … More …
Consultation, consultation, consultation
There are several consultations currently running on the City of York Council website, all asking for our views on the future shaping of the city. In fact so many that I think I … More …
Benches in King’s Square
King’s Square isn’t somewhere I sit, but somewhere I pass by, pass through, on the way to Barnitts or Tullivers. There are usually people sitting on the benches. Which is perhaps why I’d never really noticed these small plaques.
More …From the archives, for a fee
[Update, July 2013 — since this page was written, I’ve been given permission to use City of York Council images on this website. Libraries and archives are now working towards more of a Creative Commons approach regarding the use of the images in the city council archives.]
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