Perhaps by now everyone’s about the new online archive of aerial views of Britain.
It’s an exciting online resource, and is clearly getting a lot of traffic already. It may still be running slowly when you visit, as it was when I did – its servers have been strained … More …
I’ve been up to the Terry’s factory site today.
I made a special effort to ‘get on my bike’ and get up there earlier in the day than I’ve usually been passing, in … More …
Some years ago I took photos of the Terry’s factory. The photos weren’t very good, and never got added to the site. The one above was taken on 21 August 2004, when there … More …
The factory so well known to York folk, with its landmark chimney, pictured over a flooded ings, in its last ‘campaign’. As well as giving employment to so many people, for decades it … More …
(Photo: Andy Tuckwell) The factory alongside the Foss, pictured here in 1977, closed in 1984.
More …
About time I got around to noting the demise of part of the old Rowntree (Nestlé) factory site.
More …Autumn 2006
This is the Homestead Park, in Clifton, York. About a hundred years ago, a member of the Rowntree family handed his back garden over to local people. On 16 July 1904, Seebohm Rowntree announced that for a … More …
