A tale of two marketplaces
Views across the marketplace, views on the marketplace, and why the new Shambles market can’t compete with Parliament Street.
Currently browsing the category: Shops, businesses
One on every corner? Tesco and Sainsbury’s
As the Press reported recently, this building at the end of Clarence Street, Groves Chapel, may soon include a new Sainsbury’s store on its ground floor. It’s clear that there’s a lot of opposition to this.
More …Old signs, forgotten shops
What lies beneath the plastic signage: old painted lettering. Corner shops and high street shops reveal their earlier owners.
More …All change on Newgate Market
Views of and from Newgate Market when site clearance began for the refurbishment, and thoughts on whether this space will ever match Parliament Street as a home for the city’s main marketplace.
More …Dining, dancing, drinking, shopping: York, 1973
Adverts from an early 1970s guide to shops, restaurants and clubs in York. The Viking Hotel, White Swan Hotel, Willow Restaurant, Old World …
More …Goodbye, and thanks, Barbican Bookshop
The Barbican Bookshop is closing down. They’ve been here on Fossgate for decades, with all those rooms of secondhand books in a shop apparently small when you see it from the front before you realise that it goes back such a long way from the street, and up narrow stairs.
More …63 Gillygate, circa 1930
1930, give or take a year. 63 Gillygate, on the corner of Portland Street, pictured from Portland Street. The sign says ‘Children’s Outfitters’. It’s now Crew men’s hairdressing.
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Where Scott’s was: Petergate
Before leaving the subject of long-established local businesses, here’s a photo of Scott’s butchers on Petergate, taken in June 2007. It closed in 2008 after 130 years of trading.
I took the photo not … More …