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The Press reported: Airspeed 1930s Experience planned for Reynard’s Garage building in Piccadilly.
Whether this plan can come … More …
To many people in York it’s known as Reynards garage, as it was for many years. Those who don’t remember that period call it ‘an eyesore’ or ‘that old bus garage’ or ‘that old tram shed’. But this is where, in the early 1930s, the early Airspeed aircraft were built.
More …This particular York Story, of daring, entrepreneurial vision and hard graft, is all connected to an old bus garage on Piccadilly.
But we’re starting here, on Clifton. The street heading out of town from Bootham. … More …
As reported in The Press recently, plans have been submitted to turn this building into a hotel.
The once handsome crescent on St Leonard’s Place has for many years (decades?) been occupied by City of York … More …
One of the panels installed on the city’s buildings as part of the York Science and … More …
March 2011
Note: this page was written in 2011. For more up to date information on this building see all pages tagged ‘Airspeed’
Plans were produced for the conversion of this building to ‘Airspeed – A … More …
February 2011
Updates on this building, more recently.
Piccadilly was extended to cut through to Pavement and Parliament Street in around 1911, and this building is one of a few still surviving on Piccadilly dating from those developments in the early part of the … More …
