When I first came to York and I fractured my arm I came to this building to have it set. In those days it was the County Hospital. My recollections are not pleasant ones, I was not fully under the anaesthetic and could feel the surgeons pulling at my arm to get the bones back into position. The building itself is now yet another block of flats.

Bulmer's Now Gone

Bulmer's shop on the corner of Lord Mayor's Walk by Monk Bar is now empty, deserted and up for sale. The shop was described as a selling service. You would take your items for sale into the shop where they would be displayed and when they were sold you collected your money less a fee paid to the shop. I have heard tell that the building is to be bought bu a hotel chain and turned into yet another hotel. I am amazed at how quiet the photograph seems, I must have timed it well for there to be no traffic in the picture although it was taken at about ten o'clock in the morning.

A welcome addition to the music shops of York. The shop was set up by Steve the former owner of Mor Music which he sold on when he became tired of the "Box Shifting" aspect of selling large volumes of guitars in his shop in Walmgate. Red Cow Music covers a much wider range of interesting musical instruments. Steve has also been the sponsor of some interesting musical events in the city including a beginners and improvers  night for melodeon players in the Royal Oak. The Ebor Morris Men are also pleased with his sponsorship in getting the programmes printed for the annual Festival of Traditional Dance in September.

The York Glaziers Trust use this old building the Bedern Chapel, formerly used by the Vicars Choral of York Minster.

The magnificent door into the chapel really does lean at a slight angle away from the vertical. The trust has just completed a lengthy task with stonemasons who together have restored the ancient rose window of York Minster. The East end of the Minster is now free of scaffolding and makes a fantastic view of the Minster. The observant amongst you will have noticed in the photo of the Chapel that the lower half of the Windows have been filled with concrete. I find this rather suprising as the work of the Glaziers is concerned with glass.

Woolpack House

Woolpack House was formerly a public house belonging to JW Cameron the brewery company. Known then simply as The Woolpack. When it ceased as a public house it became Woolpack House and the builders moved in converting it to a Doctor's Surgery for the Jorvic Medical Practice. Later in Novemeber 2014 they were joined by the Gillygate Medical Practice and became known as the Jorvic Gillygate Medical Practice.

The building is situated at the junction where Peaseholme Green becomes Stonebow and St. Saviour's Place.