Aldwark from St Anthony's Hall

Aldwark, not to be confused with the North Yorkshire village of the same name is a street of tall imposing buildings. The stonework in the foreground is the corner of St anthony's Hall which now houses the Quilt Museum. The "wark" part of Aldwark derives from the same root as Newark wark meaning work Ald meaning old. So I suppose you could say that Aldwark and Newark are opposites.

York Minster - From Peaseholme House

Just to show what a small change of position can do to a picture, more of the Minster comes into view and St Andrew's Church can no longer be seen by moving down beside Peaseholme House to take this photograph.

York Minster Central Tower - from Spen Lane

I promised to include some tourist favourites like York Minster. This unusual view of the Central Tower is from Spen Lane with the tower dwarfing the small St Andrew's Church at the end of Spen Lane.

Coppergate

Coppergate opposite the All Saints - Pavement Church is an interesting little stretch with Duttons for Buttons, Russels Tea Shop, Alliance and Leicester (Santander), leading up to the Coppergate centre. Duttons is one of those amazing shops that specialises in buttons and often supplies buttons in quantity for films like Pirates of The Carribean.

Lift Up Your Eyes 25 - Galtres Chambers - Coppergate

I have to admit that I have probably walked past this edifice hundreds of times and never really noticed that it was there in Coppergate until I started this series of "lift up your eyes" postings. Galtres is probably the third most popular name in the area after "Ebor" the shortened version of Eboracum, the Roman name for York and Jorvik the Viking name. Galtres Forest used to lay to the north of the city and is claimed by some to be the true haunt of "Robin Hood" and not Sherwood as maintained in the classic tale of Robin Hood.