Goodbye Bootham Crescent
A brief personal goodbye to Bootham Crescent, former home of York City FC, as demolition begins.
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From Cocoa Works to Cocoa West
Along the cycle track by the old Rowntree factory, remembering Rowntree Halt, and looking at ‘Cocoa West’, then and now.
More …New hotel … Post House, 1971
An ad from 50 years ago – the Post House hotel, opening in 1971, on the site of Dringhouses Manor, by the church with a fibreglass spire.
More …Park life: forgotten fish pond
Peering into a pond in a small park area near the city walls, looking at views old and new, with historical notes, and queries.
More …‘Leeman Square’, triangular gardens, and confusing roads
From Thief Lane and the coal depot, to a triangular park in the middle of roads, in the Station Road/Leeman Road area. More …
Early 1970s York Guide (part 1)
In difficult times, some late 20th century nostalgia. York in the early 1970s, via a visitor guide book of that time.
More …York, 1840s: a visitor’s impressions, and suggested improvements
A visitor to York, 1840s, his impressions of Coney Street, the river Ouse, and the city in general, and his plans for enhancing the riverside areas.
More …Christmas Day, far away, 1949
Christmas menu for RAF personnel in Ceylon, 1949, and photos connected with that document, from back in York.
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