The festive sheds and barriers are back
York’s Christmas market, with festive sheds filling Parliament Street, and expensive anti-terrorism barriers blocking access. It’s all very 2019 . . .
More …Currently browsing the category: Shops, businesses
Coney Street’s coaching inns, and what replaced them (part 1)
Looking at a building on Coney Street, built for one local business in the first half of the 20th century, on the site of a coaching inn.
More …Coney Street concerns: notes and queries
As concerns about closed shops in Coney Street continue, some observations on the past, present and possible future of this city centre shopping street.
More …Plan of York city centre shops, late 20th century … Coney Street, Davygate Centre, etc
A plan of city centre shops in the late 20th century, including the Davygate Arcade, and Coney Street. A reminder of York’s ‘retail offer’ as it was then.
More …Groves Chapel: new Clarence Street Co-op
York in 1961
Perusing a 1961 guidebook published ‘by the Lord Mayor, Aldermen and Citizens of the City of York’. A city with no university, but plenty of industry.
More …‘Retail offer’ studies: city centre survivors
Thinking about some of the shops that have been in the city centre for decades, acknowledging their resilience in difficult times, and thinking about our spending power.
More …Geese, memorials, flowers … a hub, pubs, and Micklegate
A springtime walk from the Memorial Gardens, to Wellington Row, up Micklegate, and onto the bar walls. Geese and other things of interest, old and new.
More …