Late in the day, on a winter afternoon, on Marygate, ten years ago today. It’s not a brilliant photo, but the light’s nice. The reason I’m including it is because it’s one of the first photos I took on my first digital camera on my first digital-camera-equipped walk into … More …
An ad found in a 1970s guide to York, when tableware, including cigarette lighters, was made from old York Minster stonework. How things change.
More …It’s a particularly grim weekend in early January 2014. Let’s escape briefly, into 1930s York, via the ads in these old theatre programmes I picked up in the Barbican Bookshop sale.
Betty’s had only recently opened in St Helen’s Square. And before I get … More …
“It is better to recycle what exists … and to think small. In the life of cities, only conservation is sanity.”
– Robert Hughes
Yes, we’re back on Piccadilly again, by the old Airspeed factory (Reynard’s garage). Soon to be flattened for a nice new hotel, it seems.
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The Barbican Bookshop is closing down. They’ve been here on Fossgate for decades, with all those rooms of secondhand books in a shop apparently small when you see it from the front before you realise that it goes back such a long way from the street, and up narrow stairs.
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