Dining, dancing, drinking, shopping: York, 1973
Adverts from an early 1970s guide to shops, restaurants and clubs in York. The Viking Hotel, White Swan Hotel, Willow Restaurant, Old World …
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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 …
Items of electrical interest: Ernie Roy’s
‘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 …
Army and Navy Stores, Fossgate
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 …
Where Whiting’s was
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 …
Shops past and present: city centre
The York branch of the high-street chain Past Times has to get first mention, the name now appearing sadly ironic. At the height of its popularity – mid 1990s? – many gifts were bought here, and before Christmas it was usually uncomfortably busy.
More …Impressive frontage (refused) on Bootham
Writing about Whiting’s on Bootham has reminded me that I didn’t follow-up on the ‘Impressive frontage planned on Bootham’, which is still retail premises, recently taken over by Rugs of the World. It was a Jacksons store, briefly a Sainsbury’s … More …