It was Twenty Years Ago Today …
A brief update, after a long period of offline time, on the 20th anniversary of my first York Walk, with my first digital camera, in 2004.
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Goodbye Bootham Crescent
A brief personal goodbye to Bootham Crescent, former home of York City FC, as demolition begins.
More …Progress on Duncombe Barracks site
The Duncombe Barracks housing development: one of the city’s most significant sites. Site clearance work has begun. Photos and notes from a recent visit.
More …Cocoa Works progress
Checking on the progress of the Cocoa Works development, converting the former Rowntree factory building into residential accommodation.
More …Visitors, owners, occupiers
Thinking about property owners, investors, and how owning a bit of the city’s land, freehold, as a home, is increasingly out of reach for many residents.
More …Then and now: Hudson House to Hudson Quarter
Comparison views, from the city walls, of the now-demolished Hudson House, and Hudson Quarter, which has been built on the site.
More …Hudson Quarter revisit
Revisiting Hudson Quarter (former Hudson House site) just inside the city walls, now the landscaping of the site has been completed.
More …Railway Museum plans and Leeman Road
Referencing roundhouses, and with recycled copper … and closing (part of) a road. Railway Museum plans and their impact.
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