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.
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Things lost … and how we feel about it (part 1)
Some years ago I took photos of the Terry’s factory. The photos weren’t very good, and never got added to the site. The one above was taken on 21 August 2004, when there … More …
Sugar beet factory
The factory so well known to York folk, with its landmark chimney, pictured over a flooded ings, in its last ‘campaign’. As well as giving employment to so many people, for decades it … More …
Adams Hydraulics, 1990
Once upon a time these low buildings – ‘Adams Hydraulics – Engineers and Ironfounders’ – occupied the site by the Foss where the massive bulk of the DEFRA building was built in the later 1990s.
More …Tanner Row, 1977
This building occupied the riverside site near Lendal Bridge now occupied by the Aviva offices. See comments added for more information.
[Photo: Andy Tuckwell]
Redfearn National Glass, 1970s
(Photo: Andy Tuckwell) The factory alongside the Foss, pictured here in 1977, closed in 1984.
More …Rowntree factory site
About time I got around to noting the demise of part of the old Rowntree (Nestlé) factory site.
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Autumn 2006
This is the Homestead Park, in Clifton, York. About a hundred years ago, a member of the Rowntree family handed his back garden over to local people. On 16 July 1904, Seebohm Rowntree announced that for a … More …