Recently all eyes have been on Lendal Bridge. A less glamorous bridge deserves our attention: Clifton Bridge. This week marked 50 years since it opened. It’s likely this bridge will be bearing an extra load, of all the traffic diverted from Lendal Bridge.
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Ancient and modern, illuminated, at the end of Parliament Street. One of the smaller supporting pieces in the Illuminating York festival, and behind it the beautiful lantern tower … More …
For the most recent information on this building see all pages tagged ‘Airspeed’.
The Press reported: Airspeed 1930s Experience planned for Reynard’s Garage building in Piccadilly.
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While we’ve all been casting our eyes over the cobbles and debating the paving in King’s Square, this new bar was quietly taking shape, in premises in the square.
More …I’m sorry I haven’t been able to add anything for a week or more. There are various drafts, on various subjects, half-finished, but I’ve been busy with other things. I’ll attempt to get these half-finished pages online in the next day or two.
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Photos of the demolition of Sessions printing works on Huntington Road (the location of the ‘Ebor Press’ for many years).
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While researching the history of Groves Chapel I found this image, a postcard showing the area in front of the chapel, around 1900. Children pose in the middle of what was a ‘square’ and is now a road junction.
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Groves Chapel, a Wesleyan Methodist chapel dating from the early 1880s, is for sale. It’s at the end of Clarence Street, directly opposite the end of Lowther Street, and once served the Groves area of York, with seating for 800 people. It closed in the 1970s and has since been in health authority ownership.
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