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Are you going to Scarborough Bridge …
Information on the refurbishment of Scarborough Bridge, the removal and replanting of nearby trees, and, what are they going to do with those ‘love locks’?
More …More on the silly signage situation
In which I pretend to be a visitor to the city. Is the Lendal Bridge closure signage helpful and clear for visitors? Not really, it seems.
More …Lendal Bridge update: silly signage situation
Seems like a good time for an update on the Lendal Bridge ‘trial’, prompted by recent comments.
In case readers missed the beginning of all this, it’s called a ‘trial’ because it’s said to be an … More …
A tale of two bridges
Recently all eyes have been on Lendal Bridge. A less glamorous bridge deserves our attention: Clifton Bridge. This week marked 50 years since it opened. It’s likely this bridge will be bearing an extra load, of all the traffic diverted from Lendal Bridge.
More …After Beeching: railway remains /2
Some years ago, the now old-fashioned OS paper maps made me realise the extent of our railway network before ‘Beeching’s Axe’. Those orange-covered Explorer maps, with their beautiful detail. Including, all over, bits of ‘Dismantled Railway’. Curving lines broken in places but still traceable across the landscape.
More …After Beeching: railway remains /1
It’s 50 years since the Beeching report was published. Seems a good time to steam through my collection of photos from walks in Yorkshire which included parts of those abandoned routes, and their surviving railway architecture.
More …When petrol was plentiful /2
More images of York in the ‘golden age of motoring’, towards the end of that age. Clearly it’s some time ago, before so many people were converted to the vision … More …