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Gullies and ditches, puddles and floods

‘Observe water standing.’ Thoughts on gully cleaning and ditch scouring, after a weekend of drain watching.

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Building on the green: Bert Keech Bowls Club, and nearby

Old photo of street

As plans for housing on an old bowling green look likely to be approved this week, looking at the issues involved, and at old photos of the area when its existing housing was fairly new.

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Tagged   Bert Keech, Fairbank archive

Hearts and flowers

Wildflowers

Poppleton Road, carriageworks site, the Holgate Arch and a meadow, ten years on.

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Tagged   2004-2014, Fairbank archive, Holgate

Back Linton St and Amberley St, 100 years ago

Faded photograph of back alleyway

Let’s take a break from current controversies and return to those sepia toned streets of a hundred years ago. We’re in one of the areas of terraced housing off Poppleton Road.

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Linton St and Garland St, 100 years ago

Old photo of terraced streets

I’ve recently been sent a fascinating batch of old photos, taken in about 1913. Well, I think they’re fascinating. They’re ‘right up my street’, and if you live on Linton Street this one is literally right up yours.

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