Capaldi’s ices – Carlo’s van, 1950s
To accompany the fab photo of the Capaldi’s ices van parked in front of the factory, here’s another lovely image. It can be enlarged.
This … More …
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Gasworks gang, 1955
On their way to the FA Cup semi-final, in 1955. We try to deduce exactly where they were standing in relation to the gas works pictured behind them, as all those buildings are now gone.
More …Addresses of civilian deaths, Baedeker raid
March 2012
A simplified version of the civilian war dead list. Addresses in the York area where civilians were killed by bombing on the night of 29 April 1942. Explanatory notes and links are included below. You can also view the Google map.
- 35 Amberley St … More …
Tanner’s Moat photo, undated …
I’d forgotten I had this photo, originally scanned years back, and just rediscovered on my computer.
It’s small, very pale, and faded, but recognisable as a view of Tanner’s Moat (click to enlarge the view) … More …
The age of the badge … 1983
Before social media provided us with convenient ways of demonstrating our tastes to the world, we had badges.
Proof that we had a veritable barrage of … More …
Montagu Brooke and the mysterious stone
A year ago, when having a quick look at the since-demolished hutments behind the art gallery, I noticed this stone among the mucky shrubbery and litter.
Proper history, stumbled upon. Not packaged up and … More …
The lost street of Pickering Terrace
2012
‘A high explosive bomb hit the school wall’
There are many familiar street names on the lists of air raid damage and casualties from the ‘Baedeker’ raid of 1942. One street name probably not so familiar is Pickering Terrace.
I could find no trace of it … More …
York’s early nurserymen /2
October 2011
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The Rigg nursery, Fishergate
In the churchyard of St Lawrence, outside Walmgate Bar, there’s a large and once grand monument, commemorating six children of John and Ann Rigg, drowned in an accident on the River Ouse in 1830. John Rigg … More …