Miller’s Yard and Gillygate Wholefood Bakery
Rather than dashing through, paying attention to Miller’s Yard, and remembering a Workers’ Co-operative founded in the early 1980s.
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Bootham Field and its rusty relics
Bootham Park’s rusty relics, and a reminder of former grandeur on ‘Bootham Field’, one summer.
More …York fire station bell, 1938
1930s fire engine bell, presented to mark the opening of the new fire station at Clifford Street, in 1938.
More …‘It’s all connected’, revisited
By the bridge and sitting on the park bench. Homeless heritage, and Shed Seven. Representations of place, ‘our York’, filmed on the local patch.
More …Goodbye Corner House
The Corner House, Burton Stone Lane, closing today. To become a Tesco store. Photos and video from its last month.
More …A walk through York, 1979
A walk through York, in 1979, passing factories long since gone. When the railway offices were still railway offices and the Evening Press was based on Coney Street, and the rivers were full of barges — one of them a pub.
More …The Punch Bowl: then and now
Historical and architectural information, a 1950s photo, and more on the value of this pub in the 21st century.
More …One building … carriageworks canteen, thoughts
Back in June I asked for memories, thoughts provoked by this building. It is, as many of you knew, the old carriageworks canteen. It was part of a group of buildings at the entrance. If you’re interested in York’s real and recent history, its heritage and its culture, you may be interested in these comments.
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