Remember the 1980s in York? The Spotted Cow? Lunchtime gigs at the Spread Eagle? A York band called the Incinerators? You might be interested in www.theincinerators.co.uk - which has just arrived on the worldwide web.
For my three readers or so - some miscellaneous thoughts about walking, and a wander in a waterworld. If inspired, please communicate - well, as long as it's encouraging - it's a long dark season.
A recent wander has just been added - Sugar beet and Lammas Lands.
I'm working my way through the site at the moment, doing a revamp that's actually quite complicated "under the bonnet", but won't particularly alter the way the site looks. But for a while there will be small inconsistencies between some of the pages, so I hope that won't be too irritating. I'm messing about with my CSS coding, so if you notice that anything's gone horribly awry and you can't view any of the pages properly, please let me know. (In particular, if you're using IE 7, as I've not updated yet.)
There's one new page just added - see Changes: Clifton graffiti art.
. . . about factories and parks. Lots of work on just now but I'm working on some more pages. Thanks to Sean from Newcastle and Joanna from Ohio for making me feel like it's all worthwhile.
It's very hot at the moment and just the right kind of weather for exploring York's parks, wooded areas and nature reserves - and to help you there's a new guide just published. It's a brilliant thing, full of information and maps and interesting details. York's Green Places costs just £5, and is available from local bookshops, or from the publishers, Sessions of York, for £6.50 including P&P.
Regular visitors to this site may recognise some of the photos in the book.
The new Green spaces section of this website includes a recent visit to just one of the many places featured in York's Green Places.
Hurrah for the sunny summer evenings, and the mornings. A Very Early Morning wander is documented on a new page, just added.
I hope everyone's enjoying the summer - and the heatwave.
I've finally been to Acomb with my camera. Acomb is - to use that fine phrase - my old stomping ground. Or is it stamping ground. Anyway, both seem appropriate in this case, as for much of my time in Acomb I was a moody teenager, and they do lots of stomping and stamping about. There's a wander through Acomb, taking in all the sights, and for those who prefer a briefer and more focussed page, there's also, from the same batch of photos, a page on West Bank Park, and one on St Stephen's Church.
After months of inactivity on this site, I've added some new pages, after realising that York Stories does have some visitors who quite like it (thanks to the kind people out there who've emailed me to say so).
The pages added this month - Signficant days: Easter Sunday 2006 | Christmas Day 2005 (a bit late, I know) | Wanderings: Riverside and city - spring evening | City walls walk - spring evening | Leeman Road area | Buildings: the Odeon cinema and St Barnabas School | Changes: Big wheel | Miscellany: Waiting for trains and some photos of 1980s buses!
During my wanders up Leeman Road, to view the big wheel, I noticed this interesting bins-and-signage ensemble.
It's at the edge of an area I took photos of in August 2004 - part of the teardrop/York Central site. Since my visit they've put up large steel fences. In front of them, these bright Biffa bins - the only bright thing around, and a sign advertising Network Rail - "We need people at all levels".