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August 2011

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 … →

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 … →

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 … →