Festival of Angels - Ice Carvings

Swinegate and Little Stonegate were humming with activity over the weekend with the Festival of Angels. Numerous ice carvings were on display which seemed to fascinate the young children who could not resist touching them. There were also numerous food stalls giving the area a very lively continental feel.

Layerthorpe Gasometer from City Walls

Now that the leaves are off the trees you get a clear view of the gasometer in Layerthorpe from the city walls.

Quilt Museum Garden

The garden is now coming on apace, plants have been planted and there is just a bit of paving to be completed. It is now starting to look like a gardenand less like a building site.

Milladdio's Cod Father - Goodramgate

Opposite the Oxfam shop in Goodramgate is a fish restaurant called the "Cod Father" the hanging sign board for the restaurant is another humourous piece of work by Milladdio.

Massive wooden corner support

Every time I pass this support post I am impressed by the size and volume of wood. However, when you look more closely at it you can see that it is in fact made up of several pieces of wood cleverly interlocking together. In fact it is a bit like some of the joints I have seen on architraves on Barrat homes, no sorry, it is better than a lot of the awful joints I have seen on Barrat homes. Have you worked out where it is?

It is on the corner of the National Trust shop on the corner of Goodramgate and College Street next to St. Williams College.