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.
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What lies beneath the plastic signage: old painted lettering. Corner shops and high street shops reveal their earlier owners.
More …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 …
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.
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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 …
‘All old items below are for interest only not for sale’ reads the sign in Ernie Roy’s shop window on Patrick Pool.
It’s only a small shop window, and old-fashioned and with many small … More …
During a wander down Fossgate recently I had a look through the closed doors of the now empty Army and Navy Stores. Not quite empty. Near the door a handwritten sign advertises ‘umbrella / walking stick … More …
So, back into the present. Here’s Whiting’s of Bootham, pictured last week. Or rather, where Whiting’s was.
There’s a ‘ghost’ of the former shopfront in the visible difference in … More …
