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April daily photo, 3: old phone box

Old red telephone box, gardens of Churchill Hotel, Bootham, 3 April 2016

April daily photo 3: appreciating an old red phone box, rescued and resting in the gardens of the Churchill Hotel, Bootham.

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April daily photo: 2, handsome iron, underfoot

Embedded in a pavement, 2 April 2015 (and a year on, probably)

April daily photo, 2: Handsome round iron thing, underfoot, on a pavement a few minutes’ walk from the city walls

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Approaches to Bootham Park, part 1

Bootham Park railings and gate, August 2004

Noticing rusty railings, and forbidding signs, in the first attempt at an adequate exploration of a complicated place.

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Memorial Gardens and nearby

Rather disappointing floral display in park flowerbeds

Annual plantings in an age of austerity. Is it a sensible use of resources? Pondering this, by some dead dahlias.

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‘Triangular Gardens’, Leeman Road

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In 1983, 2007, and now: changes in the ‘Triangular Gardens’.

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Two fountains, and a message from Etty

Parliament St fountain, with advertising boards, July 2015

The disused Parliament Street fountain becomes a support for advertising boards, while a cleaned-up Etty – heritage campaigner of his day – overlooks the Exhibition Square fountain.

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Muddy markings, King’s Manor

King's Manor, outbuildings, 23 May 2015

On outbuildings under the trees behind King’s Manor, names, dates and handprints imprinted in what looks like panels made from mud.

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Handsome but hidden: Yearsley Baths lettering

Yearsley baths, York, 23 May 2015

Admiring some handsome lettering on Yearsley Baths, and taking photos of it through tree branches.

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