Ye olde lamp post, Clifton
Street lighting has been a big issue locally of late, as covered in The Press, and in More …
Graffiti, and art
The York Press reported yesterday that a wall of the old St Leonard’s Hospital building, between the Museum Gardens and Library Square, has been covered with graffiti, in the form of angry scribblings and daubings. I can’t understand why someone would want deface lovely old limestone of great historical significance.
… More …Flowers of France, found in York
This card ended up at a York car boot sale. This is perhaps its only connection to the city, though it probably has connections to a Yorkshire family. I’m sorry about the ‘perhaps’ and ‘probably’, but it’s the best I can do. It was in a box of photo albums … More …
Happy Easter
Splendid springtime is here again, with flowers blooming. The daffodils on the banks of the city walls are so often photographed, but of course the jolly yellow loveliness isn’t confined to there. … More …
The Queen’s hat, 5 April 2012
As it was a sunny afternoon and I wasn’t far from the Museum Gardens, I thought I’d make a bit of an effort to see at least the last … More …
The Queen’s visit to York in 1971, by Kay, aged 13
My sister Kay kept a diary in hard-backed notebooks, starting on Christmas Day 1971. Folded up in the front of this first ‘volume’ was this … More …
Royal visits
I’m not much of a Royalist, don’t really have strong opinions on the monarchy one way or the other. Kind of in the middle, like most people I guess. Have respect for the queen for managing for so many decades to look interested in the tedious small-talk she has to … More …
Prototype York Stories, 1970s scrapbook style
As previously mentioned, I’ve been looking through an old faded 1970s scrapbook, compiled when I was about eight years old.
Within its old pages I’ve rediscovered what could be seen as a prototype of this website … or maybe not. But I did find it quite funny. Feel free to … More …