‘The toilets were down there!’ I declared, confidently, pointing down the grubby alleyway. ‘Down at the bottom, near the river!’ And we all set off down the grubby alleyway.
Well, dear readers, I was wrong. Or rather, I was partly right and partly wrong.
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As previously mentioned, Saturday was ‘Write Your Own Plaque‘ day. A selection of the plaques placed on a wander through York.
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My recent survey asked:
If you’re a resident, what do you see as the most important issues in York at the moment?And here are the answers left in response …
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There are many commemorative plaques in York. This is a personal favourite, not because of the person whose life it commemorates — who, I have to confess, I know nothing about — but because it’s a handsome thing on … More …
Thank you to everyone who completed my recent survey. It will take more than one page to do justice to the many thoughtful and interesting responses. This page is a kind of intro: information about who answered the survey and the reasons people gave for visiting this website.
More …Thirty years ago today I went to my first football match, at Bootham Crescent. I’ve been reminded of this by an embarrassing teenage diary I’ve recently been reading. Which records, in rapidly scrawled blue biro, ‘I was surprised at how exciting it was’.
It was a particularly exciting one. … More …
Hurrah, it’s May, and there’s morris dancing happening. Here’s a photo of some morris dancing in King’s Square last May.
I hope to see some later today. I’ve … More …
‘Shop at the Co-op’, Magnet Ales, and other fading painted wall ads beyond the city walls. And that famous repainted one, of course. Again.
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