St Saviour's Church - DIG

If you slip down the side of Fibbers in Stonebow you get an unusual view of St Saviour's church in St Saviourgate. Although we tend to think of York as being fairly flat the slope of the road shows quite distinctly how the church has been built on the top of a hill. As a rough estimate I would say that St saviourgate is probably about 30 feet above the level of the river Foss. For those of you who like your measurements in metric that's 30 feet ;-)) you'll have to work it out for yourselves.

St Saviour's church is one York's redundant mediaeval churches and is now used as the archaelogical resource centre under the name DIG. Well worth a visit if you are bringing your children and they are interested in archaeology as they get a chance to do some simulated digging for artefacts. Much more fun than a lucky dip!

New Building on Former Garage Site

The building next to Stonebow House is now nearing completion, paving stones have now been nealy laid and presumably work will continue inside. The building stands on the land that was occupied by the Russels/Hunters garage in Stonebow.

The Changing Face of York

The plot of land next to Stonebow House has lain unused for a stretch of time, side by side you can see how the plot looked a year ago with wooden railings and getting overgrown. On the right is how it looks now that construction work has started.

Stonebow Building Works - Former Russels Garage

Building work on the former Russelss/Hunters garage site. It is next to the ugly Stonebow House building, hope it turns out a bit more attractive!

Calverts Carpets - Stonebow

This is a great little carpet warehouse where you can pick up reasonably priced end of roll pieces if you are willing to wait for the right piece to turn up for you. Although the building is similar in style to York's ugliest building which you can just see in the background it is softened slightly by the lower brick level which almost makes it appealing. Prior to Calverts taking the building on it was the the home of Pickles Newspaper wholesalers. Next door to it is building work going on where one of the modern timber structured buildings is being erected. I don't think I have seen any artists impression drawings of what is being erected but hope it is going to be better than the proposed council office over the road which from the artists impression is going to be a monstrosity to rival Stonebow House.