News & views

Local details - 1
What are/were these?
Leeman Road industrial heritage - queries
More (very early) railway heritage
Baedeker raid, 70 years on
Engineers’ triangle - railway roundhouses
York, 27 April 2012
Wolds wander - waymarkers, boundary stones
The Arts Barge Project. Can you float their boat?
WW2 photo - can you help locate?
An unusual sight, from West Offices
Ye olde lamp post, Clifton
Graffiti, and art
Flowers of France, found in York

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About …

This website has been online since 2004, starting life as an old-fashioned ‘personal website’. For years its pages were sent into the world having been carefully handcrafted from HTML and CSS.

This ‘News & Views’ section was added in late 2011, after a long search for a ‘blog type thing’ which I could get on with, and which would enable comments. After much searching I found the marvellous Flatpress, now integrated into www.yorkstories.co.uk.

This website started as a photographic project. It still is, but has expanded/developed/changed over the years. I’ve kept the old pages online, even though some of them are a bit vague/embarrassing and the photos are wonky.

It includes elements of local history, and in places ‘psychogeography’. It evolved with no particular plan, though its first year’s wanderings were grouped by seasons of the year. I just went where the fancy took me.

And then spent hours shepherding that content into what I’ve tried very hard to make into a coherent and clear website. It has been redesigned/refreshed several times over the years, taking into account the rapid advances in technology. (It falls short in some areas still, I know.)

It’s mainly about a ’sense of place’. Opinions have crept in, inevitably, though at first I tried very hard to merely ‘observe’.

Because it’s a personal website, most of it is written by me, Lisa, and most of the photos are mine. It’s © yorkstories.co.uk. Please acknowledge this - many people don’t.

Over the years, by email, visitors to these pages have shared with me their thoughts on York, and their memories. So, with their permission, some of their ‘York Stories’ have also been included.

Apart from those welcome contributions, this website has been carefully created and maintained by one person, with no external funding, for eight years.

City of York Council recently launched a project for 2012, also called York Stories. This has caused some confusion. There’s no connection between the two. I am not funded by the council, and I don’t have access to their resources, only to my own.

If you’ve found these pages interesting, it would be nice to hear from you. This site wouldn’t have carried on as long as it has without the support of its visitors. Thank you for your emails and for positive comments posted on these pages.