Glorious summer, and this sun in York
Some summer happenings noticed on my wanderings – photos and notes on Spark:York, the Rose Theatre, Bloom York, and Dean’s Park.
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Groves Chapel: new Clarence Street Co-op
Behind the art gallery: edible wood wanderings
From a Marygate gate, looking at the edible wood planted where a bowling green used to be. ‘Then and now’ photos, and pleasing details in the winter planting.
More …Club, pub, boathouse: Marygate and the riverside
A club closing soon, a pub already closed, an old boathouse long disused, planning applications recently submitted, in the Marygate area.
More …From Bootham Park to Bio-Rad: new hospital promised
Notes, photos, history and context of the site chosen for York’s new mental health hospital, on Haxby Road, and more thoughts on Bootham Park.
More …Groves Chapel update: notes and queries
Photos and notes on the redevelopment work underway at Groves Chapel, and the marketing of its residential accommodation.
More …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 …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.
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