Poor Clares site: 2004, 2016, and 2017
At the gate, glimpses of the Poor Clares convent on Lawrence Street, from 2004, and in recent times, as the site is redeveloped.
More …Currently browsing the category: Buildings
Carlton Tavern and Hudson House: planning applications for demolition
An update on the planning application to demolish the Carlton Tavern – which has prompted many objections – and the perhaps less controversial plans to demolish Hudson House.
More …By the Foss: Layerthorpe hotel, old gasworks site
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.
More …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).
More …Geese, memorials, flowers … a hub, pubs, and Micklegate
A springtime walk from the Memorial Gardens, to Wellington Row, up Micklegate, and onto the bar walls. Geese and other things of interest, old and new.
More …Hotels, Heron Foods, and the Happy Wanderers
Hotels: one under construction, one apparently about to be given planning permission, and one application just in. Plus a quick trip to Clifton, and then back to 1955
More …Ordnance Lane, Carlton Tavern, musings … and a tree
The change of plan on the Ordnance Lane hostel, plans in for the former Godfrey Walker Home (Carlton Tavern), thoughts on a council meeting, and a felled tree near the Dormouse pub.
More …Memories of the Godfrey Walker Home, and plans for its demolition
Memories of the Godfrey Walker Home (now the Carlton Tavern), and thoughts on recently announced plans for the building’s demolition.
More …