York in 1961
Perusing a 1961 guidebook published ‘by the Lord Mayor, Aldermen and Citizens of the City of York’. A city with no university, but plenty of industry.
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Mulberry Hall, 1970s advertisements
Adverts from the 1970s for Mulberry Hall, another long-established York business announcing its closure.
More …Where we shopped and dined: early 1980s ads
Adverts from an early 1980s guide to York. Pennyfarthing, Vivien Smith, Alpha Nova, Galt Toys, the Blake Head, Judges Lodgings, and The Willow.
More …One on every corner? Tesco and Sainsbury’s
As the Press reported recently, this building at the end of Clarence Street, Groves Chapel, may soon include a new Sainsbury’s store on its ground floor. It’s clear that there’s a lot of opposition to this.
More …Old signs, forgotten shops
What lies beneath the plastic signage: old painted lettering. Corner shops and high street shops reveal their earlier owners.
More …Dining, dancing, drinking, shopping: York, 1973
As previously mentioned, I’ve a small pile of publications bought at the Barbican Bookshop closing down sale. Mainly guidebooks, dating from the 1960s, 70s and 80s.
They were basically the last remaining remnants of a once well-stocked ‘York’ shelf of secondhand books. Plus some … More …
Goodbye, and thanks, Barbican Bookshop
The Barbican Bookshop is closing down. They’ve been here on Fossgate for decades, with all those rooms of secondhand books in a shop apparently small when you see it from the front before you realise that it goes back such a long way from the street, and up narrow stairs.
More …Where Scott’s was: Petergate
Before leaving the subject of long-established local businesses, here’s a photo of Scott’s butchers on Petergate, taken in June 2007. It closed in 2008 after 130 years of trading.
I took the photo not … More …