Marks and Spencers Traffic Jam

The access into Marks and Spencer's loading dock is particularly tight and tricky on the corner of the Shambles and Pavement. Traffic very quickly backs up and jams. More seriously as can be seen in the second photo emergency vehicles can get held up. There is an ambulance with flashing lights trying to get past the reversing lorry. The problem has been made worse by the placing of bollards along the length of Pavement thereby preventing the ambulance from mounting the footway to get past the obstruction.

Marks and Spencers Clock - Parliament Street

This clock is all that remains of a John Smith's pub called The Clock. M&S bought the space to expand the shop in the late 1960s.

St. Crux from Fossgate

St Crux church hall stands in a little green island in an otherwise heavily built up area. The foreground to the right is the shortest street in York Whip Ma Whop Ma Gate and to the left you can see the shutter doors of Marks and Spencer's goods entrance at the bottom of the famous Shambles. It can be irritating if you are driving along Pavement and there is a delivery lorry trying to get into the loading bay as it is a tight fit with very little room to manouever.

All Saints - Pavement

This view was taken from the roof car park of the ugliest building in York looking along Pavement to All Saints church the Dragoons chapel. On the right hand side is the rear entrance to Marks and Spencer. If you click on the photograph and then look at an enlargement of it in the Picasa web album you should be able to make out the sheep sign of the Golden Fleece on the right about a quarter of the way up the photograph.