‘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.
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We’re off to Hornsea Pottery
After the Wallace Arnold bus trip of the 1950s, time for a 1960s/70s visit to Hornsea.
Or rather, to Hornsea Pottery, which was perhaps the only reason anyone went … More …
1957: a day away, from the YFA
Vintage is much in vogue, but back in the fifties it wasn’t all pretty dresses, handsome curvy cars, and jiving. It was domestic hell from which we ladies had to escape …
More …Memorable times, Terry’s and Rowntree’s
Two fabulous short films from the Yorkshire Film Archive, Terry’s and Rowntree’s, 1937 and 1946.
More …10 years ago: Not in our name
University of York: 50 years
The University of York, in the summer of 1978 – 18 June. … More …
‘It’s all connected’. Homeless heritage mapped (original ver)
I’m glad that there’s now so much recording of the ‘real York’, from different perspectives. ‘Homeless Heritage of York – A different kind of mapping’, offers another perspective on this multi-layered city as residents know it. Nothing to do with the ceaselessly promoted tourist-friendly face.
More …York on film, 2012
I loved this film. I guess partly I liked it because it featured two women, and reminded me of times a friend and I had in York in the 1990s, though it wasn’t quite as stylish back then, and I remember mainly gigs in pubs with sticky carpets.
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