Ambulance Station - Hungate

The Ambulance Station in Hungate was also slated for demolition but is still standing and operational following the cancellation of the planned Council offices. In the background is the Rowntree Wharf building which was converted into offices and flats. The above photo was taken in March this year. The advertising on the hoardings has been changed in the meantime from a blue background to a greeen background, see the photo below.

Homeless Centre Peaseholme Green

This building was slated for demolition to make way for the new council offices. It is the Homeless centre built not that long ago and which actually blends in resonably well with the Black Swan Inn, the white building beyond it and does not overpower it the way the planned council offices would have.

Lift up your eyes 24

Fossgate is a real treasure trove of a street for raising your eyes up above the ground level. I particularly like the simple ornamentation of "... give the dog a bone". The symmetry of black and white wood framing by the windows and the small leaded top hinge windows at the top of the windows on the first floor and the positioning of the two attic windows makes a well balanced picture from simple but elegant ornamentation.

Changing Face of Hungate

Here is one I took earlier this year in March, probably not much change since then except that I think the displays on the boarding has been changed. Work has been progressing on the flats in the background despite the recession whereas the flats next to the Woolpack building seem to be stuck in an almost finished state. The planning request for the Council Offices has been withdrawn, supposedly on the objections of English Heritage who said the development was not in keeping with the surroundings. They did not need English Heritage to tell them that, the citizens had already told them that what they had planned was a complete "carbunckle" to borrow a phrase from Prince Charles.

Lift Up Your Eyes 23

Picking up where I left off in April when the chest pains got the better of me I shall be posting again but a little bit at haphazard intervals depending on whether I can sort out the problems with my old camera as I have lent my best camera to my son for his trip to Japan.

Just a few doors down the road from Supasave is Fellini's Italian Restaurant which provides a real feast for the eyes if you raise them up from the windows at ground level. I am not sure what the carved stonework is but a future series I am thinking of doing will look at the various types of stonework that you can find in buildings around York, a sort of geological tour of the city. Watch this space as the saying goes. I might also do it as a mapped walking tour on my web site at jollygreenp.co.uk .