York Festival of Traditional Dance 4/5 September 2010

John Bull - Part of York History.

Funny how you get a string of coincidences in your life. I was talking with friends about the John Bull pub in Layerthorpe a week ago. It was one of those "what was the name of the pub that was on Layerthorpe before it got knocked down to extend the car showroom?" moments. Then a week later and friend from a different group of people sent me a link to these clips on the John Bull. See if you can spot Joplygreenp in the second clip, it comes near the end.



Part 2


Sadly the bulldozers arrived and the John Bull was demolished.

View from an upstairs window in Stonegate

This is the view from an upstairs window from an establishment in Stonegate taken through the small open space between two windows where the opening movement has been severely restricted only allowing a small opening through which the photograph was taken. This has resulted in me cropping the sides of the photo to remove the edges of the window that were framing one edge of the photo where the black and white timbered building can be seen. So the task is to identify where I was standing to take the photograph.

Watkinsons Shoe Shop Goodramgate

Not the shop to visit if you are looking for cheap shoes. Higher end shoes stocked here judging by the prices.

Timbered building Goodramgate

According to the the plaque TIA 1700. Does anybody know what TIA stands for? This is a genuine question and not a quiz by the way! I presume the A will be "Anno" for year. What springs to mind (but not readily) is Terminus In Anno, finished in year but my layin is too rusty and I stand to be corrected.