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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York Central works on Google Earth

It looks like Google Earth’s satellite view has updated to show some of the new work around the York Central development. The latest imagery is, as of writing, still about six months out of date – but you can really see how the area is starting to change in comparison to 2023 and 2022.

September 28th, 2024

Google Earth link.

June 16th, 2023

Google Earth link.

September 13th, 2022

Google Earth link.

Tours of Old York #2: The Streets of York, 1988 and Now

And, having found another old video of York on YouTube, it’s time for another Tour of Old York. Alas, the the YouTube video doesn’t seem to be embeddable on any old random website but – in better news – it does seem to be tagged with a permissive licence that allows me to rehost it here…

The streets of York in 1988, Russell Webster (Via Creative Commons Attribution licence (reuse allowed))
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