Etty under attack from 1970s fountain
According to the Reinvigorate York information, relocation of the Etty statue is necessary because he’s been under attack from the adjacent fountain.
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Dining, dancing, drinking, shopping: York, 1973
Adverts from an early 1970s guide to shops, restaurants and clubs in York. The Viking Hotel, White Swan Hotel, Willow Restaurant, Old World …
More …Cigarette lighters made from York Minster fragments, 1970s
An ad found in a 1970s guide to York, when tableware, including cigarette lighters, was made from old York Minster stonework. How things change.
More …Office block studies … Ryedale House
Moving on from a 1960s office block on St Saviour’s Place to a 1970s office block on Piccadilly. Both usually appear on any list of ‘eyesores’.
Ryedale House, as it … More …
York floods, 1970s, before the defences
From YouTube, 1970s (probably 1978) York floods, showing Marygate, Tanner’s Moat etc, under flood water. Also front page report of the floods of 1978, Yorkshire Evening Press, under the headline SIEGE OF YORK. It reported homes being evacuated in the worst floods since 1947.
More …1970s review of the Castle Museum
Found in an old scrapbook, my brief ‘review’ of the Castle Museum, from many years back (early 1970s).
More …St Mary’s Heritage Centre and ‘The York Story’
Back in the mid-1970s the church of St Mary’s on Castlegate found a new lease of life as the St Mary’s Heritage Centre. I wouldn’t have remembered this had I not recorded its existence in one … More …
Redfearn National Glass, 1970s
(Photo: Andy Tuckwell) The factory alongside the Foss, pictured here in 1977, closed in 1984.
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