Following up on the recent consultation event on the current proposals for housing on the Bootham Crescent football ground, comparing these with plans from 2002, and reflecting on the history of the site.
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Perusing a 1961 guidebook published ‘by the Lord Mayor, Aldermen and Citizens of the City of York’. A city with no university, but plenty of industry.
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Memories of the Godfrey Walker Home (now the Carlton Tavern), and thoughts on recently announced plans for the building’s demolition.
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York City Football Club programme from Feb 1955. Adverts for local businesses and info on the players in the 1955 team.
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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.
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Inside the usually boarded-up Joseph Rowntree Memorial Library, admiring its handsomeness, and the view from the window on the stairs
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Notes and photos from an exhibition of plans for the Cocoa Works (Rowntree factory buildings). An added bit on the top, the road through, and what might happen to the Joseph Rowntree Memorial Library
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