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29/02/2024

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A History of York in 101 People, Objects & Places
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Women of York
Yorkshire Literary Landscapes
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27/02/2024

York Station luggage

20/02/2024

The first attempt at a Lendal Bridge in York.

From the Evelyn Collection

12/02/2024

A fantastic new book on York history

A HISTORY OF YORK in 101 PEOPLE, OBJECTS & PLACES

Out now - this fascinating new guide to the streets, snickleways, bars, famous people and objects which make York the incredible place it is.

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30/01/2024

A scene of yesteryear on the Ouse Bridge in York

A traffic jammed Ouse Bridge in York

Daniel Defoe, in his Tour Through the Whole Island of Great Britain described the original as ‘near 70 foot in diameter; it is, without exception, the greatest in England, some say it’s as large as the Rialto at Venice, though I think not.’

There were about fifty shops, a prison or kidcote, a town hall and a hospital on the bridge and from 1367 England ’s first public toilets are reputed to have opened here (issuing into the river): ‘the place on Owsbridge callyd the pyssing howes’. Agnes Gretehede was paid two shillings a year to keep them clean in 1544.

The present Ouse Bridge was built between 1810 and 1821.

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27/01/2024

Where is this house in York?

15/01/2024

York Historic Walking Guides takes you on 10 themed walks around the city of , covering its history, people, buildings, ghosts, beer and chocolate!⁠
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09/01/2024

March 1966, caravans outside St Lawrence junior and infant school in York.

30/12/2023

Piccadilly, York

Earlier buildings in the course of demolition, with the lantern tower of St Helen’s church visible.

This view has now totally changed, with modern shops here.