York is blessed with two universitys. This is one of the entrances into St. John's on Clarence Street. There has been a lot of building work going on lately. St. John's was a teacher training college and many folk in York still refer to it as St. John's College. In the grounds facing Lord Mayors Walk of the campus is a building now called Holgate which used to house the Archbishop Holgate Grammar School which moved out to Hull road to larger premises.
York having a Lord Mayor has a special car registration DN1 for Mayoral functions. Naturally it needs to be kept sparkling clean and here it is getting a wash and brush up.
Here is another view of the Bile Beans wall from ground level rather than viewed from the walls as in an earlier blog. The building is situated on Lord Mayor's Walk just round the corner from Monk Bar.
I have included this shot of the Minster taken from the walls along the stretch by Lord Mayors Walk between Monk Bar and Bootham Bar as another in the series of green spaces within the city walls.
This house on Lord Mayors Walk can be seen from the city walls. The advertising slogan has been there a long time and has outlasted the product which I have never seen on sale anywhere. During the 1960s the advert had started to become very faint and was repainted during the 1970s as far as I remember. It is a favourite subject with many photographers and artists. Probably one of the best renditions was a series of prints done by York artist Baz Ward. His painting has one the old red Post Office Telephone boxes in it which shows how long ago he did the original painting.
The Mansion House is the official home of the Mayor of York and is situated at the top end of Coney Street the main shopping street and faces out on to St Helen's square. Facing diagonally across the square is Stonegate, so called because that was the street that stone for the Minster was hauled along from the riverside where the Guildhall stands.
