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Aspects of York

Intro page

Buildings

• Intro page
• Council offices, St Leonard's Place
• A history of the 'hutments' | ... as the Marygate Centre | ... used by York School of Art
• St Mary's Tower
• Bonding Warehouse - 2011, and photos of interior
• Former Lawrence St WMC, and Tuke family home
• Reynard/Airspeed building, Piccadilly - 1 | 2
• White Swan Hotel, Piccadilly
• Shipton Street School
• Odeon cinema
• St Barnabas School
• Bonding Warehouse (summary, 2004 to present)

Changes

• Intro page
• New pedestrian/cycle bridge, Hungate
• Tanners Moat & Wellington Row
• Redevelopment of West Offices as council HQ
• New buildings in the Hungate development area
• Hungate outdoor art exhibition
• The refurbished Yorkshire Museum
• Changes at Rowntrees (Nestlé South)
• The refurbished York Central Library - 'York Explore'
• Bay Horse, Marygate
• Foss Bank
• Groves WMC
• Layerthorpe and Heworth Green
• Hungate area, spring 2007
• Hungate area, summer 2006
• Clifton graffiti art
• 25 Bootham (The Roxy)
• Foss Bridge House
• Big wheel
• Burton Croft

Churches

• Intro page
• All Saints, North Street
• All Saints, Pavement
• Holy Trinity, Goodramgate
• Old St Lawrence, Lawrence Street
• St Martin le Grand, Coney Street
• St Stephen, Acomb, York

Details

• Intro page
• Conversation Piece
• Buff coat of Sir Thomas Fairfax
• Effigy, with lion
• Sarcophagi
• Ballon tree
• Stone bench
• Bronze model
• Knitted 'Last Supper'

Green spaces

• Intro page
• The Museum Gardens - 1 | 2 | 3 | 4
• Rowntree Park
• Homestead Park
• West Bank Park

Memorials

• Intro page
• Memorial to Ferdinando and Thomas Fairfax
• Rigg family monument, St Lawrence's
• WW1 memorial cross, St Cuthbert's
• Memorial to the 2nd Division (Kohima memorial)
• Cholera burial ground
• Thomas Gowland
• Lieutenant Gentle Vickers

Miscellany

• Intro page
• Illuminating York - 1| 2
• York's early nurserymen
• Snippets from the archives
• Random and various round-up, 2011 - 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6
• Apostrophe dilemmas
• The lost houses of Union Terrace
• Batty bits
• Visions for York - 1843 and 2011
• Vision for York, 2011 - 1 | 2 | 3
• Vision for York, 1843 - 1 | 2
• Big wheel, big objections - 2011, and archived page
• Walking, and winter
• Back to the 80s - buses
• Wasteland
• The disappearing brownfield

Rail, roads, rivers

• Running after the Scarborough Flyer
• 1971 ring road plans
• Frozen Ouse
• 1970s inner ring road plans 1 | 2 | 3
• Dirty old river, down Hungate way
• The Permanent Way
• Waiting for trains

Significant days

• Intro page
• Easter Sunday, 2006
• Christmas Day, 2005
• Remembrance Sunday 2005
• 5th November 2005 - fireworks display
• Summer solstice 2005
• Winter solstice 2004

Themes

• Intro page
• Graffiti, revisited - 1 | 2 | 3
• Almshouses
• WD boundary markers
• Carved stones
• Selling York
• Painted wall ads
• Factories, and parks
• Graffiti

Wanderings

• Intro page
• Rougier Street & All Saints Lane 
• Micklegate 
• York station
• Gillygate
• Exploring the 'cultural quarter'
• Curvy 1930s
• Wintertime city centre wander
• . . . and wonderings... Ogleforth etc
• National Railway Museum
• Down by the riverside
• Wet Sunday
• Waterworld
• Sugar beet and Lammas Lands
• Acomb - a nostalgic wander
• Riverside and city - spring evening
• City walls walk - spring evening
• Leeman Road area

War

• Intro page

Civil War and siege of York

• Intro page
• Map of defences and significant sites/buildings
• St Mary's Tower
• Bowling green battles
• Memorial to Ferdinando and Thomas Fairfax

Second World War

• Intro page
• Baedeker raid
• List of York's civilian casualties
• Memories of the raid
• Memorial to a wartime fireman
• Memorial to a railwayman
• Memorial to a locomotive
• Second World War airmen's hostel - (intro and location map) | 2: Former RCAF service hostel/Leave Club | 3: 1940s photos of the hostel | 4: Where airmen sleep
• St Martin-le-Grand
• A walk through wartime York
• Minster bells and celebrations: 1945
• Bomber crew memorial, Fulford

Beyond York

Cycling

• Intro page
• Cycling: to Alne
• Cycling: to Healaugh

Yorkshire churches

• Intro page
• Alne, St Mary
• Bishop Wilton, St Edith
• Felixkirk, St Felix
• Kirkburn, St Mary
• Knapton (nr Malton), St Edmund
• Nunburnholme, St James
• Rillington, St Andrew
• Rudston, All Saints
• Skelton, St Giles

Yorkshire memorials

• Intro page
• Thomas Fairfax, Bilbrough
• Sutton-on-the-Forest Polish graves
• Anne Kay
• The Waggoners memorial
• The Eleanor Cross
• Monument to Sir Christopher Sykes
• Monument to Sir Tatton Sykes
• The Sykes family dogs memorial
• Elvington memorial to women of the WAAF
• Lost crews of World War Two
• More lost crews of World War Two

Yorkshire walks

• Intro page
• Skipwith Common
• Moorlands Wood
• Sledmere
• Filey
• Flamborough Heritage Trail
• Wharram and the Wolds
• Kirkham Priory to Welburn
• Cloughton Wyke to Hayburn Wyke
• Thruscross Reservoir
• Fewston Reservoir

Yorkshire airfields

• Intro page
• Former airfield: East Moor
• Tholthorpe airfield memorial
• East Moor airfield memorial
• Wombleton airfield memorial
• Riccall airfield memorial

Trees

• Trees as a 'public nuisance'
• Trees under threat
• Trees remembered in poetry
• 'The Evil Beech Tree of Irton' ...
• Observations of a tree musketeer
• The magical faraway tree
• 'The Beech Tree's Petition', 1800
• Irton tree - summary and links

News & views

• Section intro
• List: all postings

York walks: 2004

• Intro page
• York Walks /1 (winter)
• York Walks /2 (spring)
• York Walks /3 (summer)
• York Walks /4 (autumn)

Buildings

• Bonding Warehouse (winter), Bonding Warehouse (revisited)
• Bootham Crescent (football ground)
• Burton Croft
• Central Mission Hall, Swinegate
• Clifford's Tower
• Clifton Hospital site
• Drill Hall, St Andrewgate
• Foss Bridge House
• The Guildhall
• Holy Trinity Church, Goodramgate
• Miscellaneous buildings
• Old St Andrew's Church, Bishopthorpe
• One cathedral, ten times
• St Oswald's Hall, Fulford
• Salvation Army Citadel
• Converted chapels
• More former chapels
• Stonebow and Hungate
• Somewhere over the Stonebow
• Watch this space (various empty buildings)

Changes

• Changes
• Clifton building boom
• Ripe for redevelopment? (Hungate & Piccadilly)
• Layerthorpe to Heworth Green
• Newer buildings
• Clifton Hospital site (revisited)

City walls and bars

• Bar Walls - Bootham Bar to Monk Bar (winter)
• Bar Walls - Bootham Bar to Monk Bar (spring)
• Bar Walls - Bootham Bar to Monk Bar (summer)
• Bar Walls - Monk Bar to Layerthorpe
• Bar Walls - Micklegate Bar to Lendal Bridge
• Inside Bootham Bar

Green spaces

• Churchyards and gardens (winter)
• Churchyards and gardens (spring)
• Gillygate gardens and Minster precincts
• Homestead Park
• Museum Gardens (winter)
• Museum Gardens (autumn)
• York Cemetery (summer)
• York Cemetery (autumn)
• By the riverside, to Fulford
• Rawcliffe Meadows (summer)
• Rawcliffe Meadows (autumn)

Railway

• Railway city
• York's other railway museum
• Foundry Lane
• Former York carriageworks site

Rivers

• River Foss, Foss Bridge and Rowntree Wharf
• Queen's Staith
• Lendal Bridge and the riverside
• Riverside - Lendal Bridge to Ouse Bridge
• Riverside - off Coney Street and Spurriergate
• Skeldergate Bridge to Millennium Bridge
• River Ouse and autumn floods

Themes/miscellaneous

• Graffiti
• Wall art - part 2
• Signs and symbols - part 1
• Summer evening
• Riverside walk - Rowntree Park to Bishopthorpe

Wanderings (streets, areas)

• Aldwark
• Bedern and Bartle Garth
• Bishophill details
• Bootham
• Carr's Lane
• Chapter House Street
• Clifford Street
• Coppergate and Castlegate
• Bits of Clifton
• More bits of Clifton
• Clifton footpaths- part 1
• Clifton footpaths - part 2
• Duncombe Place
• Foss Islands Road, Navigation Road and Walmgate
• Gillygate
• Lawrence Street
• Marygate (winter)
• Marygate (summer)
• Mill Mount Lane
• Minster Yard and Treasurer's House
• Narrow lanes and snickelways (a selection)
• North Street
• Ogleforth
• Precentor's Court, Dean's Park and the Minster (winter)
• Precentor's Court, Dean's Park and the Minster (autumn)
• Priory Street and Bishophill
• St Andrewgate and Spen Lane
• St Leonard's Place
• St Saviourgate (winter)
• St Saviourgate (spring)
• Skeldergate
• Spurriergate and Peter Lane
• St Olave's School to St Olave's Church
• Station Rise
• Straker's Passage
• Walmgate

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