By the Foss: Layerthorpe hotel, old gasworks site
In which we wander down Foss Bank, and a snicket by Eboracum Way, and have a look, from various angles, at a new hotel building on Layerthorpe, next to the Foss.
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Then and now: demolished and replaced
Buildings pictured in 2004, demolished since. Burton Croft, Moss St depot site and Bootham Row garage (now Sainsbury’s Local and apartments). Comparison photos, 2004 and 2014.
More …The recent history of the Bonding Warehouse, in pictures: 1
So work is now underway at the Bonding Warehouse. It has been empty since the floods of 2000. For the last ten years I’ve been taking photos of it …
More …The recent history of the Bonding Warehouse, in pictures: 2
A continuation, from page 1 of this ‘recent history, in pictures’.
I said it had been ‘ours’. It was, for all its former life, a council-owned building …
More …Bonding Warehouse: exclusive, and lost
I wonder if another language has the word for the feeling I had when I visited the Bonding Warehouse on Friday. I can’t quite find the right word. And when I say ‘visited’, I mean I went to view it from the road alongside, not that I went in. I doubt I’ll ever go into the Bonding Warehouse again, very few of us will.
More …Engine house
The back of the engine house, in August 2007. If windows are the eyes of a building then these look like tired eyes.
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White Swan, Piccadilly, again
Time to revisit, again, one of my favourite ‘eyesores’, the former White Swan Hotel on Piccadilly. As this photo (taken last summer) shows, from the corner, with the blue sky behind, it’s … More …
Piccadilly plans, Banana Warehouse
A view of the middle part of Piccadilly, from the end of Merchantgate, last summer. I don’t think it’s changed much since then, but it looks like it’s about to, as a planning application has been submitted to redevelop part … More …