York Snaps – April 2025

A few little pictures of York in the April sun – including the now obligatory shot of the Bile Beans sign.

The Bile Beans sign on Lord Mayor’s Walk.

Bile Beans and York Minster

The west end of York Minster.

The west end of York Minster with College Street.

The west end of York Minster with College Street.

York Minster from Low Petergate.

York Minster from Low Petergate.

Gallery: 2025 Misc.

Prints of York’s Old Station

Not quite a Tour of Old York but, whilst scrabbling around in the Internet Archives library, I came across two rather wonderful illustrations of the first York station and the sidings that used to extend towards Lendal Bridge.

Map extract from ‘Ordnance Survey Maps Six-inch England and Wales Yorkshire Sheet 174 (circa 1853)‘. CC-BY-NC-SA by the The National Library of Scotland. Download here.
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