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Review of the year, 2019

Rawcliffe Meadows and Clifton ings, Jan 2019

Images from my wanderings, and cycling, in York in 2019. Looking for light, information, new angles on familiar things, and wishing you love, charity, light and peace in 2020.

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Review of 15 years … part 1

Bonding Warehouse, Feb 2004

15 year review, part 1. Some brief thoughts on changes I’ve seen in York since 2004.

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York, 1840s: a visitor’s impressions, and suggested improvements

Engraving, river scene, with riverside buildings, boats

A visitor to York, 1840s, his impressions of Coney Street, the river Ouse, and the city in general, and his plans for enhancing the riverside areas.

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Tagged   December Daily

Retaining more of the old place: revised plans for Bootham Crescent

Detail of memorial garden area

A memorial garden, retained terracing and fencing, a flagpole, and a section of wall. Revised plans for Bootham Crescent appear on the planning portal.

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Pondering upon some very poor paving in Parliament Street

Parliament Street paving, Dec 2019

Looking at the state of the Parliament Street paving, as an expensive repaving project is due to start soon in Stonegate.

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Huge shops, small shops … Coney Street studies

New Sports Direct store (formerly BHS), Coney Street

Looking at the new store in the former BHS, and a much smaller shop down the road, and thinking (again) about Coney Street, and shopping, in the 21st century.

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Christmas Day, far away, 1949

Christmas menu, RAF, 1949

Christmas menu for RAF personnel in Ceylon, 1949, and photos connected with that document, from back in York.

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From the archives: a frozen Ouse, 25 Dec 2010

Frozen river, 25 Dec 2010

Looking back to this day in 2010, when parts of the river Ouse were frozen over.

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