EPW016069 ENGLAND (1926). The city centre, York, 1926

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Title [EPW016069] The city centre, York, 1926
Reference EPW016069
Date 30-June-1926
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Place name YORK
Parish
District
Country ENGLAND
Easting / Northing 459792, 451464
Longitude / Latitude -1.0887043565166, 53.955611942912
National Grid Reference SE598515

Pins

All Saints North Street - finest medieval stained glass in York outside the Minster.

rosyhunt
Thursday 14th of May 2020 12:38:31 PM

big al
Saturday 28th of January 2017 05:09:22 PM
The Bonding Warehouse in which imported goods were stored duty free until removed by the importer. This enabled small traders such as shopkeepers to import wine, tobacco etc. in bulk without having to pay the full amount of the excise duty up front. Duty was only paid as and when goods were removed.

Yorkist
Wednesday 23rd of March 2016 11:17:22 AM
Walmgate Bar which still retains it's barbican

Yorkist
Wednesday 23rd of March 2016 11:11:32 AM

Yorkist
Wednesday 23rd of March 2016 11:07:10 AM
Leetham's flour Mill. Now the site for Hungate housing project. Photo is of the site being prepared for phase 2 170 or so flats in Oct 14 for completion in 2016

mspaddler
Wednesday 10th of February 2016 11:21:55 AM
Leetham's Mill Now Rowntree Wharf. This building was used to store grain for the flour mill. Later Rowntrees used it to store cocoa beans and gum arabic before being converted in 1990 to flats and offices.

mspaddler
Wednesday 10th of February 2016 11:19:39 AM
Crown Court, York, 28/08/2014

Class31
Wednesday 3rd of September 2014 11:55:33 PM
Fishergate, York, 28/08/2014

Class31
Wednesday 3rd of September 2014 11:51:44 PM
The Walls, York, 28/08/2014

Class31
Wednesday 3rd of September 2014 11:49:00 PM
Goods Sidings - long since gone.

K. T. Bush
Thursday 28th of November 2013 11:16:14 PM
Signal gantry - York South. At the time of this photo, these semaphore signals would have been controlled from the signal box which was located midway along and just East of the then 'platform 8'.

K. T. Bush
Thursday 28th of November 2013 11:12:21 PM
According to the book "Britain's Rail Super Centres - York" by Ken Appleby (Ian Allan, 1993, ISBN 0 7110 2072 8) the signals at this end of the station were worked by the Locomotive Yard Signal Box opened in 1909. It had 295 levers, and was thought to be the largest mechanically-worked box anywhere in the world. (It is just off the bottom of this photograph.) It closed with all the other mechanical boxes after the major power signalling scheme was installed at York in 1951.

John W
Wednesday 27th of May 2020 11:41:01 AM
Turn-table. This is where the steam locos would be turned in readiness for joining a train. This structure survived into the early 1980s when it was removed and the pit filled in before disappearing under the car park which now occupies this location.

K. T. Bush
Thursday 28th of November 2013 11:05:56 PM
Steam-hauled passenger train departing / awaiting departure from York station.

cidge
Wednesday 27th of November 2013 07:10:32 PM
St-Martin-cum-Gregory, a 13th century church with ancient stained-glass.

Lynda Tubbs
Tuesday 26th of November 2013 12:16:47 PM
Holy Trinity was founded prior to the Norman invasion of 1066, and is listed in the Domesday Book of 1086 as one of five great northern churches (alongside, amongst others, York Minster). http://www.holytrinityyork.org

Lynda Tubbs
Tuesday 26th of November 2013 11:39:56 AM
York fire station

thomasb378
Sunday 13th of October 2013 04:19:12 AM
York fire station

thomasb378
Sunday 13th of October 2013 04:16:57 AM
York fire station

thomasb378
Sunday 13th of October 2013 04:16:53 AM

Lynda Tubbs
Tuesday 4th of June 2013 12:45:07 PM

Class31
Sunday 20th of January 2013 09:15:50 PM
St. Michael's Church

Class31
Sunday 20th of January 2013 09:15:27 PM
All Saints Church, The Pavement

Class31
Sunday 20th of January 2013 09:14:52 PM
St. Mary's Church

Class31
Sunday 20th of January 2013 09:13:47 PM
Clifford's Tower

Class31
Sunday 20th of January 2013 09:07:33 PM
This imposing tower is almost all that remains of York Castle, which was originally built by William the Conqueror. The tower has served as a prison and a royal mint, as well as the place where Henry VIII had the bodies of his enemies put on public display.

http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/daysout/properties/cliffords-tower-york/

Lynda Tubbs
Tuesday 26th of November 2013 12:13:29 PM
The York Railway Museum used the Old Station to house its Small Exhibits Section, mainly in the former first class refreshment room, between 1927/8 and closure in 1966.

Fantasma
Monday 8th of October 2012 10:15:48 PM
North Eastern Railway Headquarters, opened 1906. Now the Cedar Court Grand Hotel.

Fantasma
Monday 8th of October 2012 10:06:20 PM
The Bar Convent, Blossom Street.

JohnM
Thursday 4th of October 2012 08:36:09 PM
The Bar Convent is England’s oldest convent, founded in 1686 and still active with a resident religious community. It was established as a school for girls, and the fine 18th century buildings now house a Museum, Library & Archives, and Gift Shop, together with well-equipped Meeting rooms, guest house Accommodation with free wi-fi and a Café.

Lynda Tubbs
Tuesday 6th of August 2013 01:29:07 PM
Micklegate Bar

MB
Monday 1st of October 2012 10:13:00 AM
The severed heads of rebels and traitors were displayed on Micklegate Bar including, allegedly, Harry Hotspur in 1403, Richard, Duke of York in 1460/61 and many others.

Lynda Tubbs
Tuesday 4th of June 2013 01:02:27 PM
Gymnasium in 1931

MB
Monday 1st of October 2012 10:10:16 AM

MB
Monday 1st of October 2012 10:09:52 AM
Engine shed in 1931

MB
Monday 1st of October 2012 10:09:19 AM
This shed was built by the Great Northern railway company. York was as far north as this company came.

John Wass
Thursday 9th of November 2017 03:06:26 PM
Railway Museum in 1931

MB
Monday 1st of October 2012 10:08:56 AM
The York Railway Museum Large Exhibits Section was housed at Queen Street in this part of the former York & North Midland Railway locomotive works. The first locomotives arrived in early 1927 and the Section was fully opened to the public in 1928. During the Second World War the Museum was closed and some of the locomotives dispersed to lessen the risk of damage in air raid attacks. Final closure came on 31 December 1973 and the collection was transferred mainly to the new National Railway Museum at Leeman Road in York and also to a new museum at Darlington North Road Station. Demolition followed removal of the final exhibits.

Fantasma
Monday 8th of October 2012 10:39:34 PM

MB
Monday 1st of October 2012 10:07:00 AM

MB
Monday 1st of October 2012 10:04:48 AM
Blossom Street

MB
Monday 1st of October 2012 10:04:11 AM

MB
Monday 1st of October 2012 10:03:46 AM
Back in the 60s there was a kiosk on this bend, where we used to stop and buy sweets as we walked from the Bar Convent to the station.

Lynda Tubbs
Tuesday 4th of June 2013 01:06:18 PM

MB
Monday 1st of October 2012 09:57:23 AM

MB
Monday 1st of October 2012 09:56:11 AM
Tram with open top deck. York Corporation Tramways ran electric trams on several routes between 1910 and 1935

MB
Monday 1st of October 2012 09:53:31 AM
Foss Islands goods station. The railway here finally closed in 1989. The site is occupied by large retailers including Waitrose, Kwikfit, Homebase and Morrisons, while most of the route to Burton Lane is a green corridor for walkers and cyclists.

Blockbell
Wednesday 11th of July 2012 03:05:51 PM
The York Cattle market. Now the site of the Barbican centre.

Gavin Thomas
Monday 2nd of July 2012 06:07:12 PM
York Glassworks. Now gone, but once one of York's biggest employers.

Gavin Thomas
Monday 2nd of July 2012 06:04:19 PM
Fishergate School. Note the clock tower is present, which was removed later in the 20thC.

Gavin Thomas
Monday 2nd of July 2012 06:00:17 PM

YorkStories
Monday 2nd of July 2012 01:57:38 PM
?Water tank? (still exists)

YorkStories
Monday 2nd of July 2012 01:56:20 PM
Yes, this is a water tower, the oldest surviving York railway building, dating from 1839.

Fantasma
Sunday 7th of October 2012 11:56:59 PM
Railway station

YorkStories
Monday 2nd of July 2012 01:52:35 PM
York Station was one of 200 'stopping stations' which received wounded and sick men and women for onward transfer to local hospitals by car or ambulance during WW1. Where would they have been taken?

Lynda Tubbs
Tuesday 4th of March 2014 01:55:35 PM
York old railway station - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/York_old_railway_station

Ian
Thursday 28th of June 2012 11:08:58 AM

User Comment Contributions

Clifford's Tower, York, 28/08/2014

Class31
Wednesday 3rd of September 2014 11:54:04 PM
Micklegate Bar, York, 28/08/2014

Class31
Wednesday 3rd of September 2014 11:47:29 PM
City Walls showing breaches to enable rail access. York, 28/08/2014

Class31
Wednesday 3rd of September 2014 11:45:24 PM
North Eastern Railway Headquarters, opened 1906.

Now the Cedar Court Grand Hotel. York, 28/08/2014

Class31
Wednesday 3rd of September 2014 11:40:57 PM


sorry folks this is not the fire station, I put my pin in the wrong building.

thomasb378
Sunday 13th of October 2013 04:21:22 AM
York's old station within the walls, and current station (built in 1870s)

YorkStories
Monday 2nd of July 2012 02:00:23 PM
View of York centre - railway station in bottom left.

YorkStories
Monday 2nd of July 2012 08:59:42 AM