Monthly Archives: March 2014
‘Come to York': 1979
A while back, during my understairs cupboard archive excavation, I found a school exercise book from 1979. This included a late-70s take on ‘the engineering industry‘ (in parts of England) and also this hand drawn effort.
More …The concerns of kings … York’s ‘Richard III’ year
This pub, on Rougier Street in York, was for a brief time in the 1980s called ‘The Richard III’. (Actually those of us who frequented it called it ‘the Grobs’, after its earlier name, the ‘Grob and Ducat’.)
I have to say that with one honourable exception (see footnote) references … More …
Our Bonding Warehouse: 1990s, Comedy Shack
As I’m sure many of us remember, the Bonding wasn’t just a venue for music. Under the arched brick ceilings, by the iron pillars, we gathered around tables to watch many comedians whose names are now familiar.
More …Our Bonding Warehouse: music venue, 1990s
The Bonding Warehouse is being remodelled and gentrified. When I knew it best it was a place I associated with music.
More …Sailing by the Bonding Warehouse, long ago
The recent history of the Bonding Warehouse, in pictures: 1
So work is now underway at the Bonding Warehouse. It has been empty since the floods of 2000. For the last ten years I’ve been taking photos of it …
More …The recent history of the Bonding Warehouse, in pictures: 2
A continuation, from page 1 of this ‘recent history, in pictures’.
I said it had been ‘ours’. It was, for all its former life, a council-owned building …
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