New White Swan, Piccadilly
This is probably York’s most complained-about eyesore, as previously discussed. It was built in 1912 (though designed to look medieval) so this year must be its centenary. Perhaps in honour … More …
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York on film: 1938 – Piccadilly and Bootham Crescent
The York City team in training in 1938, when the Bootham Crescent ground was quite new. (See also other posts tagged YCFC). And another clip from britishpathe.com archives in which a woman appears to be hanging out her washing on Walmgate Bar.
More …Plans for Airspeed – a 1930s adventure
March 2011
Note: this page was written in 2011. For more up to date information on this building see all pages tagged ‘Airspeed’
Plans were produced for the conversion of this building to ‘Airspeed – A … More …
White Swan Hotel, Piccadilly
February 2011
Update – For recent updates on this building: see all pages tagged White Swan. This page was written a few years ago and is mainly a history of happenings (or lack of them) during the recent decades of closure.
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Airspeed/Reynards Building, Piccadilly
February 2011
Updates on this building, more recently.
Piccadilly was extended to cut through to Pavement and Parliament Street in around 1911, and this building is one of a few still surviving on Piccadilly dating from those developments in the early part of the … More …