http://yorkstories.co.uk/st-andrewgate-1977/ A resident's record of York and its changes Wed, 05 Mar 2025 17:45:53 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.38 http://yorkstories.co.uk/st-andrewgate-1977/#comment-675 Thu, 15 Dec 2011 17:45:33 +0000 #comment-675 I remember being surprised at finding all these really run-down old buildings immediately behind a smart tourist area. It almost seemed that York had so many good buildings that it could afford to waste some of them. I suspect that attitude might well live on for some of the humbler buildings from the 19th and early 20th centuries which you have highlighted on this site.
If a place has many examples of a type of building, it’s always hard to argue the case for keeping any particular one of them – but there is an accumulative loss of townscape as they go.

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