It’s the 185th anniversary of the fire at York Minster on 20th May, 1840 and here’s a print to mark the occasion!
The 185th Anniversary of the York Minster Fire of 1840
Author Archives: ChrisC
Meeting in the Aisle / Radiohead (1998)
Radiohead’s Meeting in the Aisle from 1998, a piece that I first heard as part of the Meeting People Is Easy soundtrack.
‘Magic’ and ‘More Magic’.
It’s an old one but, from the jargon files, A Story About Magic.
Period Sites with Period Browsers – Machine No. 134
I’ve adde another new Browser and OS combination to Period Sites with Period Browsers – Windows XP Home x86 with Mozilla Phoenix 0.1. See it’s first run here!
Breaking Waves at Poldhu Cove
The first of what is likely to be a run of videos from my spring trip to Cornwall – ‘Breaking Waves at Poldhu Cove’.
See more video and photography from this trip at ‘Cornwall, Spring 2025‘!
Behind the Bamboo Curtain – Spying on China During Mao’s Cultural Revolution / ITN (1967)
An interesting historic look by ITN at monitoring Mao’s China from 1967.
A Viaduct for Staithes
A little more from my trawl through “The North Eastern Railway – Its Rise and Development“ – this time it’s a nice (and, as far as I can tell, unique) shot of the Whitby, Redcar and Middlesbrough Union Railway’s viaduct over Staithes Beck, just south of the village itself.
Described as a ‘light iron viaduct of novel construction’, it has an almost American feel to it and looks very out of place look to the modern eye. Given the failure of that particular line – even before the car and the van out competed it – It’s certainly not something we’ll ever see rebuilt again.
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.
Your Name In Landsat
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.
‘Malton’
‘York’
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Sadly, however, it doesn’t do punctuation.
Sandsend, Yorkshire / Thomas Girtin (1802)
The old bridge at Sandsend, painted in 1802 by Thomas Girtin. Image taken from Yale Center for British Art’s catalogue.
