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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

York in 1961

Illustration showing York Minster and the walls

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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Tagged   1960s, carriageworks, shops, Terry's

York Residents Festival: a York Card not always required …

York Art Gallery

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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Club, pub, boathouse: Marygate and the riverside

Post Office Club, Marygate

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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Tagged   pubs

Applications to fell trees at Stonebow House and St Cuthbert’s

Tree under threat of felling, for posh paving, Stonebow House

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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Tagged   trees

Groves Chapel: a Co-op shop?

Groves Chapel before redevelopment work started, Oct 2015

Groves Chapel: retail unit won’t be a Sainsbury’s after all, but a Co-op store.

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Tagged   Groves Chapel

Scarborough Bridge: plans in for upgrade

Scarborough Bridge, pedestrian walkway, April 2016

Exciting news! There’s now an actual planning application for the upgrade works to Scarborough Bridge.

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Tagged   Scarborough Bridge

2017 review of the year

Trees in winter sunlight

Photos, month by month, from in and around York, with thoughts on various planning matters decided or progressing this year.

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Tagged   review
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