People gathered around the wireless on 3rd September 1939 to hear Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain announce that Adolf Hitler had not withdrawn his troops from Poland and so he declared that ‘this country is at war with Germany’. The first …
Old maps and photos show that, rather than being rather denuded of interest like today, Foss Bank (previously Foss Bank Road) was the site of a chicory works, York United Gas Light Company and some houses. Orchard Street, now demolished, …
My great uncle Derrick Gosley’s family was from the West Cottingwith/Holme on Spalding Moor area. Many of his relatives were in the pub trade. The Gosleys married into the Hairsine family. Charles William Hairsine was publican at the Anchor Inn, …
Here are some Wakefield war memorials. And a few plaques.
I’ve got a thing about interesting walls! Particularly if the boundary wall is older than the building – I wonder what was there before? Here are some boundary walls which have caught my eye recently: Some interesting walls of buildings: …
One of Terry’s chairmen was Noel Goddard Terry. He was badly wounded in the First World War (5th West Yorkshire Regiment) but survived. He had a house built in 1927 near the racecourse, called Goddards. It is now owned by …
A lot of my dad’s side of the family worked for the railway. I stumbled upon a useful resource when I was looking for one of mum’s ancestors. I was looking for George Aspinall who was assistant station master at …
There are a surprising number of buildings still standing in York that were previously used by the railway industry. Here are some of them. The Yorkshire and North Midland (Y&NM) Railway opened in 1839. Y&NM loco works One of the …
York’s railway history – there to see in current buildings Read more »
