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Monthly Archives: April 2017

By the Foss: Layerthorpe hotel, old gasworks site

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In which we wander down Foss Bank, and a snicket by Eboracum Way, and have a look, from various angles, at a new hotel building on Layerthorpe, next to the Foss.

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Tagged   gasworks, redevelopment

Hungate area developments: then and now

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Catching up on new developments in the Hungate area, and comparing photos I’ve taken in this area over more than a decade. (Plus a lovely drawing of a hedgehog.)

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Tagged   Hungate

Along the walls, to the Rigg monument and the Tuke house

A walk over to Lawrence Street, via the bar walls, visiting the restored Rigg monument and checking on progress at the Tuke House (St Lawrence WMC).

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Focus on Fossgate, and a proposed sign across it

Responses to a plan to put a large metal sign across the top of Fossgate, and notes on the nature of the historic street of Fossgate and the roads leading into it. Should it be sectioned off as a ‘Quarter’?

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Tagged   Fossgate
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