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.
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NASA’s ‘Your Name In Landsat‘ is neat; it attempts to spell your name – or any other word you provide – in land features from satellite imagery as recorded by the Landsat satellite network.
It also has a nice little function where it’ll provide you with a clean-cropped image that you can easily download.
Sadly, however, it doesn’t do punctuation.
The old bridge at Sandsend, painted in 1802 by Thomas Girtin. Image taken from Yale Center for British Art’s catalogue.
John Roberts singing Kipling’s A Tree Song.
In Malton yesterday I happened to stumble across this rather fabulous Easter-themed yarn-bombed post box just outside of Malton Post Office. Anyway, here are some photographs of it before the April showers soak it through and wreck the yarn.
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This is funky, the River Severn Partnership Advanced Wireless Innovation Region is using the Vodafone mobile phone network as a virtual rain sensor. ISPReview has a short introduction
Continue readingThe new Pulp single, released as part of the campaign running up to the new LP. I quite like it and, although it’s unlikely to best Different Class, I’m cautiously optimistic for the rest of the album.
My final video from Cauldron Falls in the Winter of 2024. This – and other videos and photographs from my Winter 2024 trip – can be found here.
I’ve added another gallery of images from a summer 2024 visit to the Yorkshire Wildlife Park. They can be found at Yorkshire Wildlife Park, Summer 2024.
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.
