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The festive sheds and barriers are back

Barriers by All Saints church, 16 Nov 2021

York’s Christmas market, with festive sheds filling Parliament Street, and expensive anti-terrorism barriers blocking access. It’s all very 2019 . . .

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Tagged   overtourism, Parliament St

Coney Street’s coaching inns, and what replaced them (part 1)

Shopping street

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.

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Tagged   Coney Street, December Daily

Coney Street concerns: notes and queries

Coney Street, 25 Dec 2018

As concerns about closed shops in Coney Street continue, some observations on the past, present and possible future of this city centre shopping street.

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Plan of York city centre shops, late 20th century … Coney Street, Davygate Centre, etc

Plan showing occupiers of shops, banks 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.

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Tagged   Coney Street

Groves Chapel: new Clarence Street Co-op

Groves Chapel: the Clarence Street Co-op

Admiring the new Co-op and its ornate columns, at Groves Chapel, Clarence Street.

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Tagged   Clarence Street, Groves Chapel

York in 1961

Illustration showing York Minster and the walls

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.

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Tagged   1960s, carriageworks, shops, Terry's

‘Retail offer’ studies: city centre survivors

Sign in shop window

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.

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Geese, memorials, flowers … a hub, pubs, and Micklegate

Carpet of daffodils in bloom on grassy rampart by stone wall

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.

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Tagged   geese, Micklegate, pubs
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