“It is better to recycle what exists … and to think small. In the life of cities, only conservation is sanity.”
– Robert Hughes
Yes, we’re back on Piccadilly again, by the old Airspeed factory (Reynard’s garage). Soon to be flattened for a nice new hotel, it seems.
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Wow. Fantastic. I feel like the heading to this page should be in big shouty capital letters and perhaps accompanied by a trumpet fanfare.
York’s most famous and long-standing eyesore is being redeveloped. No, really. It really is this time.
More …For the most recent information on this building see all pages tagged ‘Airspeed’.
The Press reported: Airspeed 1930s Experience planned for Reynard’s Garage building in Piccadilly.
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Photos of the demolition of Sessions printing works on Huntington Road (the location of the ‘Ebor Press’ for many years).
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Groves Chapel, a Wesleyan Methodist chapel dating from the early 1880s, is for sale. It’s at the end of Clarence Street, directly opposite the end of Lowther Street, and once served the Groves area of York, with seating for 800 people. It closed in the 1970s and has since been in health authority ownership.
More …As mentioned on the previous page, I seem to have assembled many photos of the engine house (York waterworks building, about to be The Star Inn the City) and nearby buildings in that corner of the Museum Gardens over the years 2004-2013 (mainly 2007-2013). These … More …
The back of the engine house, in August 2007. If windows are the eyes of a building then these look like tired eyes.
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