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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.

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.

Peering into a pond in a small park area near the city walls, looking at views old and new, with historical notes, and queries.

From Thief Lane and the coal depot, to a triangular park in the middle of roads, in the Station Road/Leeman Road area. More …

In difficult times, some late 20th century nostalgia. York in the early 1970s, via a visitor guide book of that time.

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.

Christmas menu for RAF personnel in Ceylon, 1949, and photos connected with that document, from back in York.

What was the Bay Horse pub, Gillygate. A pub for many years, under many different names, Catching up with it as it is in December 2019