By the Foss: Layerthorpe hotel, old gasworks site
In which we wander down Foss Bank, and a snicket by Eboracum Way, and have a look, from various angles, at a new hotel building on Layerthorpe, next to the Foss.
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Focus on Fossgate, and a proposed sign across it
Responses to a plan to put a large metal sign across the top of Fossgate, and notes on the nature of the historic street of Fossgate and the roads leading into it. Should it be sectioned off as a ‘Quarter’?
More …Stonegate paving, history, and authenticity
Archive images of Stonegate, with a variety of surfaces. A few notes and observations in response to the paving/patching controversy.
More …Exhibition Square improvements: what we said
Two fountains, and a message from Etty
The disused Parliament Street fountain becomes a support for advertising boards, while a cleaned-up Etty – heritage campaigner of his day – overlooks the Exhibition Square fountain.
More …About a fountain, and the flow of information
Dogma and debate: 20mph signs
Paving, part 56: new market, and King’s Square
In search of the truth about the cracked slabs in the new marketplace, and admiring a mix of old and new paving. Taking care not to slip on wet leaves.
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