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
Tag: York
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.
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.
Tours of Old York #3: The City of Legions
And onto another Tour of Old York. This time our video comes courtesy of the British Pathe YouTube channel and brings us two and one quarter minutes of footage of York shot between 1930 to 1939.
‘The City of Legions – York’
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 The latest imagery is, as of writing, still about six months out of date – but you can really see how the area is starting to change in comparison to 2023 and 2022.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
June 16th, 2023
September 13th, 2022
Visit York Art Gallery
The autumn trailer for York Art Gallery. The William Morris exhibit looks like it should be interesting.
Bile Beans in August ’24
York Minster with the Bile Beans sign, August 2024
York Historic Environment Record Blog RSS Feed
So the City of York Historic Environment Record department has a an interesting, if infrequently updated, blog covering archeology and historic conservation efforts in York.
Now my preferred way of reading blogs – especially those which are not frequently updated – is to stick that particular blog’s RSS feed in my reader and to let the updates come to me. Unfortunately the YHER Blog doesn’t have an obvious link to a feed, but, after a little poking around at the page’s HTML, I’ve managed to find a URL that seems to work: York Historic Environment Record Blog RSS Feed.
And that should perfect to be fed into your reader of choice!
Photographs – A Trip to The National Railway Museum
It’s been a little while since I last added any photographs, however you can now find a selection of images from at May 2024 trip to The National Railway Museum here!