Tags: citywalls

#190836, nearby

[Image taken 6.2.23] Bootham Bar, the city walls, York Minster, the De Grey Rooms, St Leonard’s Place, York. The planks used as hoardings on the De Grey Rooms are the colour of the stone of the city walls, Bootham Bar and the Minster. … [more]

#190737, nearby

[Image taken 4.2.23] Esplanade cycle parking, West Esplanade/Wellington Row (below Lendal Bridge), York. These toast rack Sheffields (see also: #190736) are broken. The last support has been removed. But this leaves a substantial trip … [more]

#190736, nearby

[Image taken 4.2.23] Esplanade cycle parking, Wellington Row (below Lendal Bridge), York. Two lots of Sheffield racks linked by rails ie toast racks. I prefer flat-topped Sheffields. I think they provide a longer space for supporting my … [more]

#190735, nearby

[Image taken 4.2.23] Esplanade cycle parking, West Esplanade/Wellington Row (below Lendal Bridge), York. These racks are within easy walking distance of the city centre. For people on this side of the city/river you can avoid the queuing … [more]

#180482, nearby

[Image taken on 25.3.22] Bishopgate Street heading for junction with Price’s Lane, York. [Note: No street view at this location.] People waiting to cross here can enjoy the sight, and, when there are gaps in the motor traffic, the smells of … [more]

#175672, nearby

Bootham Bar

#170528, nearby

[Image taken 21.6.21] Station Avenue/Station Road, York at the city walls. The scaffolding (see: #169848 and links) that restricted the flow of people - including people with cycles on the diversions from the floodworks in the city - search … [more]

#169857, nearby

[Image taken 30.5.21] Tanner's Moat junction with Rougier Street. This is an indicative image taken from the other side of Lendal Bridge (ie on Station Avenue looking across Station Road to Rougier Street). Saturday, 29 May 2021 was the … [more]

#169855, nearby

[Image taken 29.5.21] Station Avenue/Station Road, York. There were more people wanting to pass through the gap than there was space available. They had to wait. I sat here for 15 minutes and counted nearly 400 people heading towards or … [more]

#169854, nearby

[Update: 21.6.21 The scaffolding has gone.] [Image taken 29.5.21] Station Avenue/Station Road, York. People queuing to get through the arch in the city walls on the narrow pavement and with scaffolding in place. Yet the motor traffic … [more]

#169853, nearby

[Update: 21.6.21 The scaffolding has gone.] [Image taken 29.5.21] Station Avenue/Station Road, York. The adult accompanying the child who fell off his cycle (see: #169852) is now wheeling two cycles. Why is the motor traffic not limited to … [more]

#169852, nearby

[Update: 21.6.21 The scaffolding has gone.] [Image taken 29.5.21] Station Avenue/Station Road, York by the city walls. Scaffolding further reduces the width of the pavement. The child fell off his cycle into the road, in the crush. Two … [more]

#169851, nearby

[Update: 21.6.21 The scaffolding has gone.] [Image taken 30.5.21] Station Avenue/Station Road, York at the city walls. Scaffolding further reduces the width of the pavement. For people moving through here after dark there's a further issue: … [more]

#169850, nearby

[Image taken 29.5.21] Station Avenue/Station Road, York near the city walls. This sign seems at odds with that in: #169848. Also, people on cycles displaced from the riverside are pushing their cycles here, so it's not just pedestrians that … [more]

#169848, nearby

[Image taken 29.5.21] Station Avenue/Station Road, York. People cycling, walking, wheelchairing in York this summer (and into next year) are being diverted from riverside routes due to flood works. The result is very many unsightly, … [more]

#169080, nearby

[Update: 21.6.21 The scaffolding has gone.] [Image taken 16.5.21] Station Road junction with Station Avenue, York. A fallen sign further reduces the width of the pavement and increases the obstructions (there are scaffolding poles) under … [more]

#168909, nearby

Update: Light still out 27.6.21. [Update: A reply in the name of the Customer & Resident Services Manager on Monday, 24 May 2021, 13:25:52 said: The current status of your report is: closed - development works. This street light has been … [more]

#168508, nearby

[Update 29.5.21 see: #169770] [Image taken 4.5.21] Bootham junction with Gillygate, York. The damage around the Yorkshire Water access cover has not been repaired. Compare the damage with that in March 2021: #165685

#167753, nearby

[Image taken 25.4.21] Station Road towards the Minster today - blossom on both sides of the road and daffodils still visible. See also: #167752, #167754, #166492 and links

#167752, nearby

[Image taken 25.4.21] Exiting York rail station onto Station Road. See also route towards Minster today: #167753 and #167754. Image from a month ago - a carpet of daffodils: #166492. Wildflowers at Scarborough Bridge: #169771. Buttercups on … [more]

#167610, nearby

[Image taken 21.4.21] Station Road, York. Only a single tree was coming into blossom yesterday. One day on and the pink accompanies you towards Lendal Bridge while, on the left, the daffs continue to put on a show on the slopes of the city … [more]

#166492, nearby

Updated (blossom) 25.4.21: #167752. Updated 21.4.21 See: #167608. [Image taken 30.3.21] Station Road, York. Exit the railway station at this time of year and beyond the buses and the clutter, the banks of the city walls opposite are … [more]

#166259, nearby

[Image taken 21.3.21] Lendal gyratory, York. Looking across from Station Rise across Station Road, through the city walls to the junction of Station Road with the continuation of Station Rise direction of Leeman Road. The proposed diversion … [more]

#165771, nearby

[Image taken 19.3.21] Bootham/Gillygate York is not a straightforward junction. On a cycle it can be hairy. No, it can be hazardous. The oncoming drivers (from St Leonard's Place, in the Bootham turn lane) have a blind corner due to the … [more]

#165685, nearby

[Update: more damage May 2021 see: #168508] [Image taken 19.3.21] Worsening damage around Yorkshire Water access covers on Bootham at its junction with Gillygate, York. I put my phone into the image to show perspective. See also: #165771 … [more]

#95604, nearby

Northgate Lock sign By the Shropshire Union canal as it passes under St Martin's Viaduct, Chester, England