Carlton Tavern update: the planning committee will decide this week (18 Oct) whether to approve plans for its demolition. Photos and observations, and an update on the campaign to save the building.
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Memories of the Godfrey Walker Home (now the Carlton Tavern), and thoughts on recently announced plans for the building’s demolition.
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Alliance House, former York carriageworks site. Proposed demolition plan submitted at the same time as the York Central ‘consultation’.
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York Central consultation: in which an important part of York’s heritage is invisible. They’ve already decided to drive a road through it.
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An old worn boundary stone for the Y&NMR, on Lowther Terrace, at the edge of York’s railway lands.
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Holgate Villa, a 1950s office block built by British Rail for their staff. Background and recent history, including abandoned plans to demolish the building, which is now being converted to residential accommodation.
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Back in June I asked for memories, thoughts provoked by this building. It is, as many of you knew, the old carriageworks canteen. It was part of a group of buildings at the entrance. If you’re interested in York’s real and recent history, its heritage and its culture, you may be interested in these comments.
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