Focusing on fountains: the demolition of the Parliament Street fountain, and the possible restoration of a drinking fountain on Museum Street. Thinking about whether a new drinking fountain might be a good replacement for the Parliament Street ‘decorative’ fountain. (As long as it isn’t in the middle of the Jubbergate line.)
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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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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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Perusing a 1961 guidebook published ‘by the Lord Mayor, Aldermen and Citizens of the City of York’. A city with no university, but plenty of industry.
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York Residents Festival this weekend: highlighting some of the venues where you don’t need a York Card as ‘proof of residency’.
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A club closing soon, a pub already closed, an old boathouse long disused, planning applications recently submitted, in the Marygate area.
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Applications to fell a whitebeam at the corner of the Stonebow House development, and a mature horse chestnut in the churchyard of St Cuthbert’s, Peasholme Green.
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