3 Blogs for York ©
3 Blogs for York

3 Blogs for York

The city's civic trust on what it takes for granted, a history group that has researched four streets south of the river for decades, and a resident's twenty-year walking record of the city

Most writing about York is about the Minster, the walls and the Shambles. The best local writing is about everything else. The civic trust writes about the parts of the city its own residents overlook, from its paving to its flood meadows. A volunteer history group has spent years on a small patch south of the Ouse: Bishophill, Clementhorpe, Scarcroft and the shops of Bishopthorpe Road. And one resident has walked the city with a camera since 2004 and written up how it has changed.

They lead to the ings along the Ouse, a bar on Bishy Road with a butcher's tiles above the counter and a quiet stray behind the old Rowntree factory.

Further Reading

3 Blogs for York

  1. 01 York’s ings – a national treasure hiding in plain sight yorkcivictrust.co.uk · Duncan Marks The city's heritage charity, which writes about the York that residents take for granted rather than the one on the postcards: almshouses, paving, housing estates, Acomb, and here the flood meadows along the Ouse.
  2. 02 Traces of history clementshallhistorygroup.org.uk Volunteers who have researched Bishophill, Clementhorpe, Scarcroft and South Bank for years and published six books on them. Their blog follows individual shops and buildings, mostly on Bishopthorpe Road, Micklegate and Blossom Street.
  3. 03 Spring equinox wanderings, Bootham Stray yorkstories.co.uk · Lisa One resident's photographs and notes on York since 2004: demolitions, new building, old shop signs and the green edges of the city. New posts are rare now, and the last was in January 2024, but the archive of more than twenty years is the reason to read it.

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