City - Miscellaneous, York

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This is a very nice Memorial that I came across near York Minster. Built in Gothic revival style, it's octagonal and really ornate! It honour's all the York men who died in second Boer War (1899-1902). 500,000 British troops faced a force of 88,000 from the two Boer republics, resulting in the most costly war's the British have been involved in!

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St. John's University was another historic building that I found attractive. The building's were set amongst lovely green lawn's and shrubbery, what a nice setting for a University!

The university descends from two Anglican teacher training colleges, which merged in 1974 to form the College of Ripon and York St John.

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The Old White Swan is Pub
It is a collection of around nine buildings and dates back to the 16th century which will place the pub along with the Black Swan, Punchbowl, and Ye Olde Starre Inne as one of York’s oldest.

Historically, it's quite an interesting Pub. In the back courtyard, there still are timber framed medieval building's, but look for the stone rock that was used as 'mountings' to help people board the stagecoaches of yesteryear and contain four steps.

One of its' most famous guest's was a 'Mr O'Brian' who was eight foot tall who visited on the 5th of August 1781 by permission of the Lord Mayor.
The landlord at the time charging a shilling to see the visitor. Poor man!

As with many Old pub's around York, it has a tale or two to tell.
It is thought that the pub was a secret meeting place for papists who planned to flee to France. Ghostly figures have been seen huddled around the fire in the early morning, but the fire was left unlit, how had the fire been relit, the Staff said they didn't do it?
Also there are tales of furniture being flung around by themselves and muffled voices and footsteps.

Is it true! Is is haunted! I wonder!

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This row of joined together Cottage's are known as "Lady Row."

They date from 1316 and are the earliest row of houses surviving in the city.

The houses are very simple, made of plastered timber framing with roofs of curved tiles.
The original row was 128 feet long and only 18 feet deep, and had two storeys and eleven bays. Each bay formed a single home with one room on each floor, but at least one tenement occupied two bays. They were built as a home for the poorer people of York.

Seven of the bays remain largely intact today, others have been replaced by taller brick buildings. In 1827 there was a proposal to re-open the whole churchyard to the street by pulling down Lady Row altogether, thankgoodness this threat was never realized!

I found these on Goodramgate street. They nearly hide the view of the Holy Trinity Church, and there is a reason for this. The houses were built in the original churchyard and their rental income was used towards the church's running expenses.

Petergate was the main cross road of York.
I noticed a statue sitting on top of the "Shared Earth" shop. It was the statue of Minerva, Goddess of Wisdom, sitting with an owl and a pile of books, a reminder of the days when this was the street of bookbinders and booksellers.
This point is also the main road intersection of Roman York and the entrance to the Roman military headquarters.

The York Art Gallery opened its doors to the public in 1879, then in 1892 became the City Art Gallery.

The gallery looks out over Exhibition Square, also created in 1879, and to the city walls and York Minster. The centrepiece of the square is a statue of York artist William Etty which was erected in 1911 and a fountain.
The Art gallery display's paintings and ceramics and holds exhibition's that change every few month's.
Paintings are displayed in six areas over the two floors of the gallery and are divided into themes such as people and places.

OPEN... daily from 10am until 5pm, except 25 and 26 December and 1 January.

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A lovely old style car sat out of the front of the church waiting for the Bride & Groom to emerge from the historic Church. What a day, cold and wet, but at least the rain had stopped for a moment!

This is another Church located close to the Minster. The Angilican church was built in the time when King Henry VIII broke with Rome. It has Tudor architecture and contains 14th to 16th century glass. The facade is mainly Victorian style.

The church is famous for being the place where Guy Fawkes was christened on 16 April
1570
Guy Fawkes was christened an Anglican in this Church, but later converted to Catholicism which led to the failed 1605 Gunpowder Plot.

The name got us in! It is a York Brewery!

Cask Beer and nine real ales on offer at any one time, it was a good chance to try some English Beer. Not only English, but they serve Beer from countries around the world.

This is an independent Brewery that does a Brewery tour which includes beer sampling and a memento of your visit from a range of merchandise available from the brewery shop.

TOUR....Adults £6.00....Senior Citizen £5.00....14-17 years £3.00
Children 13 year olds and under go free

Tour Times
Monday-Saturday all year..12:30pm 2:00pm 3:30pm 5:00pm
Sundays from May to September....12:30pm 2:00pm 3:30pm 5:00pm