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