Let’s hang on to Bootham Park: your views needed – now
Last chance to respond: where should York’s new mental health hospital be? Somewhere central, or stuck out of town? Your views needed, by 16 January
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Approaches to Bootham Park, part 3
Looking at the site of the former nurses’ accommodation in Bootham Park and wondering why it can’t be reused for mental health facilities.
More …Approaches to Bootham Park, part 2
Heading up the tree-lined avenue, past the massive open space in front of the hospital buildings. Asking questions about what might happen, and public access.
More …Approaches to Bootham Park, part 1
Noticing rusty railings, and forbidding signs, in the first attempt at an adequate exploration of a complicated place.
More …Clifton Park: a replacement for Bootham Hospital?
Exploring an ’empty’ piece of land near the old Clifton Hospital, apparently a possible site for a replacement mental health facility.
More …Bootham Field and its rusty relics
Bootham Park’s rusty relics, and a reminder of former grandeur on ‘Bootham Field’, one summer.
More …New views, Bootham Park
Another site revisited, catching up on developments — or rather, demolitions. Bootham Park Court was nurses’ accommodation, late 20th century and not … More …
Demolition of nurses’ accommodation, Bootham Park
Demolition work has begun on Bootham Park Court, the nurses’ accommodation alongside Bootham Park hospital. I can remember these houses and flats being occupied, but … More …