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Memories of the Godfrey Walker Home, and plans for its demolition

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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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Tagged   Acomb, Carlton Tavern, Holgate

Back to 1955: YCFC programme

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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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Tagged   Bootham Crescent, YCFC

Selby Tony, heritage, and the Arts Barge mooring

Selby Tony (Arts Barge) in the Foss Basin, May 2016 (3)

A barge and its stories, and the plan for its mooring, on the Ouse at Tower Gardens.

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Rusty gates restored, and ridge and furrow ruminations

Bridge Lane gates, 2017

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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Tagged   Bridge Lane, iron

Inside the Joseph Rowntree Memorial Library

Interior view, Joseph Rowntree Memorial Library

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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Cocoa Works: plans for Rowntree factory buildings

From the cycle track, July 2011

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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‘Castle Gateway’ and the Castle car park, 1947-2017

Aerial photo of Clifford's Tower and surrounding area in 1947. From the Britain from Above collection.

Looking at earlier plans for building on the Castle car park, by Clifford’s Tower, in the light of recent plans for the ‘Castle Gateway’ scheme. Aerial photos from the 1940s and 1950s, the Esher report, and Coppergate II.

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Tagged   Castle Gateway, Clifford's Tower

Bellringing, notes and queries: 1940s, 1980s, and now

York Minster and the York Arms pub, after the bells had rung in 2017

On bellringing: notes and queries and historical information, from the 1940s and the 1980s, prompted by the ringing of the Minster bells at New Year.

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Tagged   Minster
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