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Back to the 70s: 1979 election leaflets

Montage - Conservative Party election leaflets, 1979

Let’s drift nostalgically back to the 70s, via some old election leaflets in a scrapbook.

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The Queen’s visit to York in 1971, by Kay, aged 13

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My sister Kay kept a diary in hard-backed notebooks, starting on Christmas Day 1971. Folded up in the front of this first ‘volume’ was this account of … More … →

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Prototype York Stories, 1970s scrapbook style

As previously mentioned, I’ve been looking through an old faded 1970s scrapbook, compiled when I was about eight years old.

Within its old pages I’ve rediscovered what could be seen as a prototype of this website … or maybe not. But I did find it quite funny. Feel free to … More … →

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1970s review of the Castle Museum

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Found in an old scrapbook, my brief ‘review’ of the Castle Museum, from many years back (early 1970s).

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St Mary’s Heritage Centre and ‘The York Story’

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Back in the mid-1970s the church of St Mary’s on Castlegate found a new lease of life as the St Mary’s Heritage Centre. I wouldn’t have remembered this had I not recorded its existence in one … More … →

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