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Monthly Archives: January 2017

Cocoa Works: plans for Rowntree factory buildings

From the cycle track, July 2011

Notes and photos from an exhibition of plans for the Cocoa Works (Rowntree factory buildings). An added bit on the top, the road through, and what might happen to the Joseph Rowntree Memorial Library

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‘Castle Gateway’ and the Castle car park, 1947-2017

Aerial photo of Clifford's Tower and surrounding area in 1947. From the Britain from Above collection.

Looking at earlier plans for building on the Castle car park, by Clifford’s Tower, in the light of recent plans for the ‘Castle Gateway’ scheme. Aerial photos from the 1940s and 1950s, the Esher report, and Coppergate II.

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Let’s hang on to Bootham Park: your views needed – now

Bootham Park, 7 Nov 2015

Last chance to respond: where should York’s new mental health hospital be? Somewhere central, or stuck out of town? Your views needed, by 16 January

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Bellringing, notes and queries: 1940s, 1980s, and now

York Minster and the York Arms pub, after the bells had rung in 2017

On bellringing: notes and queries and historical information, from the 1940s and the 1980s, prompted by the ringing of the Minster bells at New Year.

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