Just down past the gasworks …
Walking through the Groves to have a look at work taking place on the old gasworks site, accompanied by the Boomtown Rats and the Pogues.
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By the Foss: Layerthorpe hotel, old gasworks site
In which we wander down Foss Bank, and a snicket by Eboracum Way, and have a look, from various angles, at a new hotel building on Layerthorpe, next to the Foss.
More …‘An industrial landscape of some grandeur': gasworks
Before we hurtle back to the present day, I want to share these photos from the early decades of the 20th century. The gas works which once occupied Foss Bank and part of Heworth Green. Hard to recognise now as it’s all changed utterly, but the curving road tracing the shape of the Foss here is the same. Within its curve …
More …World tour of York, with barrow – 1940s
Following the discussion of the gasworks in the Foss Bank/Heworth Green area, Stephen sent memories of visiting those premises, and others, gathering food and fuel. More valuable than ever during the war years, and available for free, if you knew where to go, and were … More …
Gasworks gang, 1955
On their way to the FA Cup semi-final, in 1955. We try to deduce exactly where they were standing in relation to the gas works pictured behind them, as all those buildings are now gone.
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14 March 2008
These buildings have appeared along the side of the Foss, at Foss Bank, since last year. I was rather rude about this development after reading the silly promotional blurb, but have to say … More …
Selling York
May 2007
This photo is of the advertising hoardings around one of this city’s many building sites – the development called The Forum, on Heworth Green. I nearly walked into a lamp-post when I saw it, I … More …
Layerthorpe and Heworth Green
May 2007: There’s a large amount of redevelopment gone on and still going on in the Layerthorpe and Heworth Green area.
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