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.
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Christmas Day, far away, 1949
Christmas menu for RAF personnel in Ceylon, 1949, and photos connected with that document, from back in York.
More …54 Gillygate
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
More …Cycling women, and charabancs, and more info appreciated
A photo from a century ago, women lined up with their bicycles, by St William’s College in York. Notes and queries.
More …A fiddler on the roof, York Minster
On the roof of the Minster’s south transept, at one time – ‘a singular accompaniment for a place of worship’ – since removed.
More …St William’s College, and Nathaniel Hawthorne’s visit in 1857
St William’s College, in its more dilapidated years, as described by a visitor in the 1850s, and pictured by Henry Cave, and late 19th century photographers.
More …A visitor writes about York in the 1850s
Coney Street’s coaching inns, and what replaced them (part 2)
Looking at the site of another of York’s coaching inns, on Coney Street, what it became in the second half of the 20th century, and what’s happening now.