Miller’s Yard and Gillygate Wholefood Bakery
Rather than dashing through, paying attention to Miller’s Yard, and remembering a Workers’ Co-operative founded in the early 1980s.
More …Rather than dashing through, paying attention to Miller’s Yard, and remembering a Workers’ Co-operative founded in the early 1980s.
More …A memorial plaque on a bench in Miller’s Yard, Gillygate.
More …One place I’ve been meaning to mention is this pub on Gillygate, now Monroes, formerly (as pictured) the Pink Pony, formerly … loads of other names.
More …The Salvation Army citadel on Gillygate, for sale in 2014, pictured in 2004, and with its band in 1931. Thoughts on its possible reuse.
More …This is the last photo I have from Kathleen Peirson’s album. I’m including it partly because I’d like to be able to identify the location, though I’m not too hopeful we can. … More …
1930, give or take a year. 63 Gillygate, on the corner of Portland Street, pictured from Portland Street. The sign says ‘Children’s Outfitters’. It’s now Crew men’s hairdressing.
The image — a then and now … More …
Our Bile Beans ad is a famous ‘ghost sign’ — not actually ghostly anymore since being repainted a couple of times. There are a few authentically faded ghost sign … More …
In decades past, the motorist in need of petrol didn’t go out to Tesco on Clifton Moor, but could find it here, on Bootham, at the entrance to Bootham Row, right next to the Bootham Tavern, and in numerous locations nearby.
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