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Sunday signage: old stones

Behind Stonebow House: St Crux burial ground marker

Old stones set into brick walls. One a reminder of a burial ground, the other slightly mysterious.

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Sunday signage selection

Lyons Maid sign, Milton Street

A selection of signage recently appreciated, from the Fishergate/Fulford Road/Lawrence Street areas of York.

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Tagged   ghost signs, signage

Muddy markings, King’s Manor

King's Manor, outbuildings, 23 May 2015

On outbuildings under the trees behind King’s Manor, names, dates and handprints imprinted in what looks like panels made from mud.

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Handsome but hidden: Yearsley Baths lettering

Yearsley baths, York, 23 May 2015

Admiring some handsome lettering on Yearsley Baths, and taking photos of it through tree branches.

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Scarborough Bridge work: impressive signage

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The signs around the site while the work was taking place on Scarborough Bridge deserve a special mention.

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Tagged   Scarborough Bridge

Street details: bench marks

Carved (cut) bench mark

To be found all over York and everywhere else: chiseled into stone and brick. ‘Each one unique’.

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Old signs, forgotten shops

Hand painted lettering, faded

What lies beneath the plastic signage: old painted lettering. Corner shops and high street shops reveal their earlier owners.

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Tagged   shops

The hamlet of St Marygate

Medieval tower, red phone box

A new sign seems wrong, but isn’t. And a fine old (1940s) photo of part of this old hamlet.

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Tagged   Bootham, Marygate
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