Along the walls, to the Rigg monument and the Tuke house
A walk over to Lawrence Street, via the bar walls, visiting the restored Rigg monument and checking on progress at the Tuke House (St Lawrence WMC).
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Geese, memorials, flowers … a hub, pubs, and Micklegate
A springtime walk from the Memorial Gardens, to Wellington Row, up Micklegate, and onto the bar walls. Geese and other things of interest, old and new.
More …A walk along Bridge Lane
Between the hospitals, Bridge Lane, its boundaries and buddleias. A short walk on the local patch, and the thoughts it provokes.
More …Acomb wanderings: around the Green, 2006 & 2016
In which we wander towards and around Acomb Green, comparing photos from 2006 and 2016, and ponder a cattle trough.
More …Acomb, revisited, part 1
Acomb revisited: retracing a 2006 wander, ten years on. Intro/part 1 – heading for the cattle trough, distracted by a gate and a lost view from the churchyard.
More …By the barracks, one evening, April 2011
Approaches to Bootham Park, part 3
Looking at the site of the former nurses’ accommodation in Bootham Park and wondering why it can’t be reused for mental health facilities.
More …Clifton Park: a replacement for Bootham Hospital?
Exploring an ’empty’ piece of land near the old Clifton Hospital, apparently a possible site for a replacement mental health facility.
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