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30 July 2007

Note: There’s an update to this page, with larger photographs. Remember Barbican Baths? (2015)

The swimming baths next to the Barbican centre were demolished this summer. For … More … →

May 2007: There’s a large amount of redevelopment gone on and still going on in the Layerthorpe and Heworth Green area.

26 April 2007

It’s all change around here. It’s been a strange series of spaces for some years now – a lot of it car park, or areas that weren’t quite anything at all, being reclaimed by nature. Since … More … →

July 2006

It’s a very smart black door, the front door to a building at the top of Bootham, a stone’s throw from Bootham Bar. Many old Yorkies will have fond memories of going through this door late … More … →

June 2006

Foss Bridge House is a landmark building at the top of Walmgate, where it joins Fossgate at the bridge. It’s a big confident Victorian building, built in the 1870s. In the later twentieth century … More … →

16 June 2006

However handsome they make Hungate’s planned piazzas, they’ll have to work hard to match the beauty of this, made by a small seed landing on the derelict ground. I wandered through the Hungate area in June 2006, to see … More … →

April 2006

A major change to the York skyline – this enormous observation wheel, recently constructed next to the National Railway Museum. It’s quite impressive, certainly against a blue sky. These photos were taken on … More … →