Signs selection: boundaries, ownership, private property, public access
Thoughts prompted by signs spotted on recent wanders, and rejoicing in rights of way running over railway lines.
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Focus on Fossgate, and a proposed sign across it
Responses to a plan to put a large metal sign across the top of Fossgate, and notes on the nature of the historic street of Fossgate and the roads leading into it. Should it be sectioned off as a ‘Quarter’?
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 …Rusty gates restored, and ridge and furrow ruminations
Rusty gates restored in Bridge Lane, resulting in ruminations on ridge and furrow, and the former life of the fields and playing fields they opened on to.
More …Memorial planned for North Street gardens
Plans for a memorial to John Snow, in the riverside gardens on North Street. Photos and notes.
More …A walk along Bridge Lane
Between the hospitals, Bridge Lane, its boundaries and buddleias. A short walk on the local patch, and the thoughts it provokes.
More …York in June: photos to cheer and soothe
Friday noticeboard: memories sought, and details lost
Memories of National Service sought, and a query about the disappearance of details on the Scarcroft School clock tower.
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