This is a short film of still shots – a slideshow: ‘Vintage Volkswagens on the streets of York’. I know, it doesn’t sound exciting, unless you’re a vintage VW enthusiast. But this is definitely worth a look if you like old photos of ‘real York’, if you’re interested in the way the city has changed, and particularly if you remember York in the 1960s/70s.
More …Rick Witter disrobes at various locations around my parish. Filmed in many familiar locations, some recently included on these pages: near the YCFC ground at Bootham Crescent, ‘Asylum Lane’ (Bridge Lane), the grounds of Bootham Park Hospital, Bootham, Gillygate (how it looked before the York St John building dominated the Clarence St end).
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Memories of the Layerthorpe area and its terraced streets, and the John Bull. Including a YouTube video about the pub and the campaign to save it. It also records a lost landscape in its wider views of the street and surrounding area – note the gasometer.
More …This is real York. Blurry video, but never mind. Captures something the tourist-orientated stuff doesn’t. Soundtrack from The Enemy, carefully chosen tracks. A favourite band and a well-known bus route home.
More …By Brodie Craven. Many hours condensed into around four and a half minutes. Watch this with the accompanying soundtrack. It’s stunning. ‘The idea was to tour as many of the sights of the City of York (UK) in the 16 hours between sunrise and sunset.’
And also, another gem from the Yorkshire Film Archive …
More …… in which we are transported through the streets of ‘old York’ via motorbike: what looks like East Parade in Heworth, as well as Spurriergate, High Petergate full of parked cars, etc. Includes several shots of the ordinary folk of York going about their business, including a group of women heading for the Rowntree’s factory, with its factory clock.
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Prince of Wales in York, 1923. Let’s hope the good people of York aren’t quite so rowdy when HM The Queen visits this year …
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Glimpses of York – 1930s … barely any traffic, cyclists with acres of space on virtually empty roads. See the shot of the chap on the bike approaching Walmgate Bar, about 25 seconds in …
Also a nice film of scouts on the River Ouse, in the same decade.
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