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Rusty gates restored, and ridge and furrow ruminations
Rusty gates restored in Bridge Lane, resulting in ruminations on ridge and furrow, and the former life of the fields and playing fields they opened on to.
More …Inside the Joseph Rowntree Memorial Library
Inside the usually boarded-up Joseph Rowntree Memorial Library, admiring its handsomeness, and the view from the window on the stairs
More …Cocoa Works: plans for Rowntree factory buildings
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
More …‘Castle Gateway’ and the Castle car park, 1947-2017
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.
More …Let’s hang on to Bootham Park: your views needed – now
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
More …Bellringing, notes and queries: 1940s, 1980s, and now
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.
More …Review of the year, 2016
Looking back on 2016, with a photo from each month and the thoughts and memories it provokes, from floods to lime flowers, and proclamations at the bars
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