Monthly Archives: March 2014
‘Come to York': 1979
![](http://yorkstories.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/come-to-york-oct-1979-crop.jpg)
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
![Leaflet, comedy gigs](http://yorkstories.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/comedy-shack-bonding-warehouse-nov-dec-93-inner.jpg)
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
![Hunt saboteurs benefit gig, early 1990s, Bonding Warehouse Flyer for gig, hand drawn](http://yorkstories.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/thb-gig-hunt-sabs-benefit-early-1990s-york1.jpg)
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
![Bonding Warehouse, 13 Nov 2005 Victorian warehouse building, pigeons and gulls covering roof](http://yorkstories.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2005-bonding-warehouse-131105.jpg)
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
![Bonding Warehouse, 8 July 2007 Bonding Warehouse, 8 July 2007](http://yorkstories.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2007-bonding-warehouse-gates-080707.jpg)
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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