Foss-side buildings in 1990. I don’t know what these businesses were, but the buildings are long gone.
Where they once stood, it’s now mainly open space, still awaiting redevelopment. The new apartments built in recent years are … More …
6 October 2011
This is the new bridge recently constructed over the Foss, between Navigation Road and the new Hungate area development.
New bridges are always welcome, even if, as I think was the case … More …
August 2011
It’s ‘all change’ round here, as a station guard might have said back in the mid-19th century when this was our railway station.
The redevelopment of this building – more recently known as ‘West Offices’ – is underway, to form a new headquarters building for City of … More …
About time I got around to noting the demise of part of the old Rowntree (Nestlé) factory site.
More …2010
The Hungate area has new residents, in these buildings completed since I was last up this way. When I started this website in 2004, one of its earliest pages involved a wander through the remnants … More …
August 2010
The Yorkshire Museum in the Museum Gardens opened on 1 August 2010 after a major refurbishment, and I visited a week or so later. Like the nearby library, the newly-refurbished museum seems lighter and brighter, and … More …
June 2010
I’m a devotee of libraries, considering them fundamentally noble and important places. There has however been concern over the role of libraries, and how many people are using them, and how accessible and welcoming they are. Modernisation was … More …
