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About York

• Writing about York
• The disappearing brownfield

Buildings

• Introduction
• Odeon cinema
• St Barnabas School
• Bonding Warehouse
• Shipton Street School

Changes

• Introductory page
• Foss Bank, March 2008
• Groves WMC, March 2008
• 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

• Introduction
• Old St Lawrence, Lawrence Street
• All Saints, North Street
• All Saints, Pavement, York
• Holy Trinity, York
• St Martin-le-Grand, Coney Street, York
• St Stephen, Acomb, York
• 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

Green spaces

• Introduction
• Homestead Park
• West Bank Park

Memorials

• Introduction
• Cholera burial ground
• Memorial to the 2nd Division (Kohima memorial)
• Thomas Gowland
• Lieutenant Gentle Vickers
• Anne Kay
• The Waggoners memorial
• The Eleanor Cross
• Monument to Sir Christopher Sykes
• Monument to Sir Tatton Sykes
• The Sykes family dogs memorial

Significant days

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

Themes

• Introductory page
• Selling York
• Painted wall ads
• Factories, and parks
• Graffiti

Wanderings

• Introductory page
• 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

Yorkshire

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

Miscellany

• Introductory page
• Dirty old river, down Hungate way
• Wasteland
• The Permanent Way
• Walking, and winter
• Waiting for trains
• Back to the 80s - buses

York Walks pages (2004)

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

The individual pages making up the York Walks pages are listed below,
grouped by theme.

Individual buildings

• Bonding Warehouse (winter)
• Bonding Warehouse (revisited - summer)
• Bootham Crescent (football ground)
• Burton Croft (Now demolished. Former home of J B Morrell.)
• Central Mission Hall, Swinegate
• Clifford's Tower
• Clifton Hospital site
• Clifton Hospital site (revisited)
• Drill Hall, St Andrewgate
• Foss Bridge House (soon to be redeveloped)
• The Guildhall
• Holy Trinity Church, Goodramgate
• Miscellaneous buildings
• Old St Andrew's Church, Bishopthorpe
• One cathedral, ten times (York Minster)
• St Oswald's Hall, Fulford
• Salvation Army Citadel

Parks and gardens and graveyards

• 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)

Rivers and bridges

• 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

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

Streets, snickelways and 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

Modern York - changes and developments

• Clifton building boom
• Converted chapels
• More former chapels
• Ripe for redevelopment? (Hungate area etc)
• Stonebow and Hungate
• Somewhere over the Stonebow
• Layerthorpe to Heworth Green
• Newer buildings

Railway - past and present

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

Riverside walks and wildlife areas

• By the riverside, to Fulford
• Rawcliffe Meadows (summer)
• Rawcliffe Meadows (autumn)
• Riverside walk - Rowntree Park to Bishopthorpe

Miscellaneous

• Graffiti
• Wall art - part 2
• Signs and symbols - part 1
• Summer evening
• River Ouse and autumn floods

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