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Christmas and all that
Elsewhere on the web: a lot of old photos
I had a page half-done, it should have been online yesterday, but it’s a lovely sunny morning, beautiful and warm, and frankly I can’t be bothered to finish it. So instead I thought I’d link outwardly to some other interesting things. Recently many old images from various archives have been … More …
A view from … ?
A photo from a wander on a grey and damp evening earlier this year. A handsome collection of rooftops and churches. I thought we could do a a bit of a quiz-type thing, like I used to do. Do you recognise this view? …
More …All aboard the charabanc
I’ve also recently chanced upon an image from the city archives taken outside the White Swan, around a hundred years ago.
More …‘Come to York': 1979
A while back, during my understairs cupboard archive excavation, I found a school exercise book from 1979. This included a late-70s take on ‘the engineering industry‘ (in parts of England) and also this hand drawn effort.
More …Sailing by the Bonding Warehouse, long ago
Dining, dancing, drinking, shopping: York, 1973
Adverts from an early 1970s guide to shops, restaurants and clubs in York. The Viking Hotel, White Swan Hotel, Willow Restaurant, Old World …
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