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Hotels, Heron Foods, and the Happy Wanderers

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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

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Mulberry Hall, 1970s advertisements

Adverts from the 1970s for Mulberry Hall, another long-established York business announcing its closure.

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In search of the Stonegate Arcade

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Peering down alleyways off Stonegate and finding reminders of the Stonegate Arcade.

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Where we shopped and dined: early 1980s ads

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Adverts from an early 1980s guide to York. Pennyfarthing, Vivien Smith, Alpha Nova, Galt Toys, the Blake Head, Judges Lodgings, and The Willow.

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Tagged   1980s, shops

Miller’s Yard and Gillygate Wholefood Bakery

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Rather than dashing through, paying attention to Miller’s Yard, and remembering a Workers’ Co-operative founded in the early 1980s.

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Corner House and Punch Bowl: update

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The Corner House, now a ‘Tesco Investment’, and hopes that the Punch Bowl and other pubs can be protected with an Article 4 Direction.

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Tagged   Corner House, pubs, Punch Bowl

A tale of two pubs …

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A boarded-up pub in Burton Stone Lane, and the bigger issues, in Clifton and across the city.

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Goodbye Corner House

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The Corner House, Burton Stone Lane, closing today. To become a Tesco store. Photos and video from its last month.

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Tagged   Corner House, pubs
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