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A history of the ‘hutments’
August 2011
Note: These buildings were demolished in 2011-12.
These buildings are hidden away behind York Art Gallery. Most people who have seen them think that they’re just a load of scruffy asbestos-ridden … More …
Marygate Centre
August 2011
Rusted York Education Committee plaque. Photo by Boba Low.
Behind the art gallery are dilapidated buildings seen as an eyesore, with no obvious ‘history’. They are soon to be demolished.
Originally used More …
York School of Art
The former service hostel buildings behind York Art Gallery were used after the war as the Marygate Centre, for further education and evening classes. A section was used by York School of Art. The art school already occupied one side of the art gallery, and later expanded to use part of these buildings behind it. Plan by John C.
More …RCAF service hostel – 1940s
April 2011
These photographs show the hutments behind the Art Gallery around the time of their construction, during the Second World War.
This exterior view shows the hutments complex, with the Minster … More …