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An important building taking shape: mental health, and a winter walk

Construction underway: new mental health hospital, Haxby Road, 13 Dec 2018

A winter walk: impressive progress on the new mental health hospital … and trees, and sunlight, in dark times.

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Homestead, Pooh Corner, and thoughts from a walk in the park

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Finding cheer in Homestead Park, with Eeyore, Tigger, Pooh and friends, and some busy squirrels, and thinking about this particular park’s land, and the Rowntree legacy.

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Tagged   Homestead, Rowntree

Late summer selection: strays, signs, cycle tracks, and a stadium

Blackberries and lichen-covered twigs, Bootham Stray, August 2018

Late summer in York: a selection of photos from the suburbs and strays, and checking on progress at the Community Stadium.

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Glorious summer, and this sun in York

Flowery delights by St Helen's church, 7 July 2018

Some summer happenings noticed on my wanderings – photos and notes on Spark:York, the Rose Theatre, Bloom York, and Dean’s Park.

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Tagged   Castle Gateway, Exhibition Square, Piccadilly

A York Walk: looking for light, signs of spring, and interesting things

Steps to Scarborough Bridge, 13 March 2018

A York Walk like in the old days … wandering with camera in hand, trying to see it afresh, escaping ponderings on the Local Plan and other weighty things. Local details and handsome views, and a tiled doorway not noticed before.

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Behind the art gallery: edible wood wanderings

View of Minster over bowling green

From a Marygate gate, looking at the edible wood planted where a bowling green used to be. ‘Then and now’ photos, and pleasing details in the winter planting.

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Tagged   art gallery, Museum Gardens

Leeman Road Millennium Green: will a road run through it?

View of park, path and greenery

Wandering around and through Leeman Road Millennium Green, thinking about the impact of the York Central access road options.

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Tagged   Leeman Road area, YorkCentral

Castle Gateway studies: a few quiet moments

Foss Basin, 19 July 2017

On the ‘visitor offer’, and the need for places for quiet contemplation away from the visitor offer. Summing up the ‘Castle Gateway studies’ (part 1, ‘close low’).

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Tagged   Castle Gateway
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