Railway Terrace and Watson Street
A wander along Railway Terrace to revisit Watson Street, St Paul’s church, the long-gone cattle dock, and Holgate Bridge.
More …Currently browsing the category: Changes
Cinder Lane and railway lands, 2004 and now
A wander down Cinder Lane, past old rusty things and a new building on the Engineers’ Triangle. Photos from August 2004 and August 2014 compared.
More …Hearts and flowers
All change on Newgate Market
Views of and from Newgate Market when site clearance began for the refurbishment, and thoughts on whether this space will ever match Parliament Street as a home for the city’s main marketplace.
More …‘Public conveniences’, Bootham Bar and elsewhere
We’ve just been looking at the history of toilet facilities in and near Church Lane, off Spurriergate, so it’s as good a time as any to alert readers to the planned demolition and rebuilding of the public toilets near Bootham Bar.
More …The recent history of the Bonding Warehouse, in pictures: 1
So work is now underway at the Bonding Warehouse. It has been empty since the floods of 2000. For the last ten years I’ve been taking photos of it …
More …The recent history of the Bonding Warehouse, in pictures: 2
A continuation, from page 1 of this ‘recent history, in pictures’.
I said it had been ‘ours’. It was, for all its former life, a council-owned building …
More …Etty and decades of change, in a city square
There are many photographs of Exhibition Square in the City of York archives, illustrating the changes in over a century of use. Seems a good time to look at some, in the light of the current consultation. (Archive images used with permission.)
First, this photo from its early days. Our … More …