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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 … →

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 … →

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.