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‘A rare survival': WW2 service hostel

August 2011

Accommodation blocks, WW2

A rare survival on a city centre site

These rather dilapidated buildings would have been bulldozed if the plans for the ‘big wheel‘ had gone ahead, and have won only a temporary reprieve. There are plans to landscape … More … →

Tagged   demolition, hutments, RCAF hostel

A history of the ‘hutments’

August 2011

Note: These buildings were demolished in 2011-12.

WW2 'hutments' behind York Art Gallery

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 … →

Tagged   hutments, Marygate Centre, RCAF hostel

RCAF service hostel – 1940s

April 2011

Exterior view of RCAF service hostel or leave club, 1940s

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 … →

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