New hotel … Post House, 1971
An ad from 50 years ago – the Post House hotel, opening in 1971, on the site of Dringhouses Manor, by the church with a fibreglass spire.
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Early 1970s York Guide (part 1)
In difficult times, some late 20th century nostalgia. York in the early 1970s, via a visitor guide book of that time.
More …Mulberry Hall, 1970s advertisements
Adverts from the 1970s for Mulberry Hall, another long-established York business announcing its closure.
More …A bandstand and squirrels, Museum Gardens, 1978
I can’t leave the 1970s newspaper without mentioning a couple of other things reported in that edition of the Yorkshire Evening Press of 30 December 1978.
More …Leeman Road defences
How the Leeman Road area used to suffer in the floods, before the defences. Perspectives from back then, and now.
More …A walk through York, 1979
A walk through York, in 1979, passing factories long since gone. When the railway offices were still railway offices and the Evening Press was based on Coney Street, and the rivers were full of barges — one of them a pub.
More …‘The engineering industry’, York and elsewhere, 1979
Rediscovered in an old schoolbook from 1979, an illustration of ‘The engineering industry’, as it was then.
More …1971: welcoming the fountain, Exhibition Square
In 1971 York Civic Trust provided a new fountain for Exhibition Square. It’s still there, but as previously mentioned, it’s apparently eroding the Etty statue.
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