Goodbye Bootham Crescent
A brief personal goodbye to Bootham Crescent, former home of York City FC, as demolition begins.
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Retaining more of the old place: revised plans for Bootham Crescent
A memorial garden, retained terracing and fencing, a flagpole, and a section of wall. Revised plans for Bootham Crescent appear on the planning portal.
More …Bootham Crescent football ground: planning application (19/00246/FULM)
Planning application for the redevelopment of Bootham Crescent, YCFC football ground. Information, notes, thoughts.
More …Field, cricket field, football pitch … Bootham Crescent: then, now, future
Following up on the recent consultation event on the current proposals for housing on the Bootham Crescent football ground, comparing these with plans from 2002, and reflecting on the history of the site.
More …Back to 1955: YCFC programme
York City Football Club programme from Feb 1955. Adverts for local businesses and info on the players in the 1955 team.
More …30 years ago today, at Bootham Crescent
Thirty years ago today I went to my first football match, at Bootham Crescent. I’ve been reminded of this by an embarrassing teenage diary I’ve recently been reading. Which records, in rapidly scrawled blue biro, ‘I was surprised at how exciting it was’.
It was a particularly exciting one. … More …
Sounds, York 2012
About an hour and a quarter left of 2012 at the time of writing.
I thought this was worth a go … as an alternative representation of 2012, through this resident’s eyes. Well, ears. Just for a change.
Recorded clips from my mobile phone, at various places on the streets … More …
Asylum Lane and the ‘Cathedral Boys’
A tweet this week alerted us to an important anniversary. York City Association Football Club played their first game at Bootham Crescent on 31st August 1932.
I don’t … More …