Asking a few questions about the Draft Local Plan, and highlighting some key points and statistics noticed. Wondering why we’ve got so many flats when really the need is for houses. Startling statistic on the increase in younger residents, from the expanding universities. All very interesting.
More …Time to leap back into the present, to the pressing concerns of today.
Hands up who’s read the Local Plan Preferred Options main documents? I’ve been trying to, before the consultation period ends … More …
Before we hurtle back to the present day, I want to share these photos from the early decades of the 20th century. The gas works which once occupied Foss Bank and part of Heworth Green. Hard to recognise now as it’s all changed utterly, but the curving road tracing the shape of the Foss here is the same. Within its curve …
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This is the last photo I have from Kathleen Peirson’s album. I’m including it partly because I’d like to be able to identify the location, though I’m not too hopeful we can. … More …
This photo album belonged to Kathleen Peirson, of 63 Gillygate, York. It dates from around 1930. (This image, and most of the others on the page, are enlargeable.)
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Old painted signs — ‘ghost signs’ — recently uncovered on Cumberland Street.
One of the nicest things about having had this site for some time is that I get emails … More …
A while back I stumbled upon a rather quaint and dated description of the city of York. Not from the far distant past, but from recent years, in the Guardian’s information on the … More …
1930, give or take a year. 63 Gillygate, on the corner of Portland Street, pictured from Portland Street. The sign says ‘Children’s Outfitters’. It’s now Crew men’s hairdressing.
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