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.
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Hotels, Heron Foods, and the Happy Wanderers
Hotels: one under construction, one apparently about to be given planning permission, and one application just in. Plus a quick trip to Clifton, and then back to 1955
More …Mulberry Hall, 1970s advertisements
Adverts from the 1970s for Mulberry Hall, another long-established York business announcing its closure.
More …In search of the Stonegate Arcade
Where we shopped and dined: early 1980s ads
Adverts from an early 1980s guide to York. Pennyfarthing, Vivien Smith, Alpha Nova, Galt Toys, the Blake Head, Judges Lodgings, and The Willow.
More …Miller’s Yard and Gillygate Wholefood Bakery
Rather than dashing through, paying attention to Miller’s Yard, and remembering a Workers’ Co-operative founded in the early 1980s.
More …Corner House and Punch Bowl: update
The Corner House, now a ‘Tesco Investment’, and hopes that the Punch Bowl and other pubs can be protected with an Article 4 Direction.
More …A tale of two pubs …
A boarded-up pub in Burton Stone Lane, and the bigger issues, in Clifton and across the city.
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