Cycling women, and charabancs, and more info appreciated
A photo from a century ago, women lined up with their bicycles, by St William’s College in York. Notes and queries.
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A fiddler on the roof, York Minster
On the roof of the Minster’s south transept, at one time – ‘a singular accompaniment for a place of worship’ – since removed.
More …St William’s College, and Nathaniel Hawthorne’s visit in 1857
St William’s College, in its more dilapidated years, as described by a visitor in the 1850s, and pictured by Henry Cave, and late 19th century photographers.
More …A visitor writes about York in the 1850s
Coney Street’s coaching inns, and what replaced them (part 2)
Looking at the site of another of York’s coaching inns, on Coney Street, what it became in the second half of the 20th century, and what’s happening now.
Coney Street’s coaching inns, and what replaced them (part 1)
Looking at a building on Coney Street, built for one local business in the first half of the 20th century, on the site of a coaching inn.
More …York Central …
York Central isn’t just a UK Parliamentary constituency, it’s also the name given to ‘a large brownfield site near the city’s railway station’. Brief thoughts on a recent award for a masterplan.
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