York

Pictures from York taken on our Summer holiday 2013
The York Wheel The York Wheel Great City Attractions Global Ltd (GCAG) has teamed up with the Royal York Hotel, situated next to York Railway Station, to open a 53-metre wheel in its gardens. : England, Englanti, Holiday, The York Wheel, York, city, kaupunki, kesäloma, matka, travel Feeding time Kids feeding the geese : England, Englanti, Holiday, York, city, kaupunki, kesäloma, matka, travel Legend Narrow canal boats moored in York : England, Englanti, Holiday, York, city, kaupunki, kesäloma, matka, travel Highlander Parrot in a boat : England, Englanti, Holiday, York, city, kaupunki, kesäloma, matka, travel
Lendal bridge Lendal Bridge was the second of the three modern road bridges built over the River Ouse at York (the first being Ouse Bridge which has existed since as early as the ninth century). The bridge was redesigned and finally opened in 1863. The new architect, brought in after the failed first attempt, was Thomas Page. Lendal Bridge is an iron bridge with details in the Gothic style popular in Victorian England. The ornate parapet of the bridge features the white rose of York, the crossed keys of the Diocese of York and the lions of England. Additional ironwork includes York’s coat of arms and the initials V & A, representing Queen Victoria and Prince Albert. : England, Englanti, Holiday, York, city, kaupunki, kesäloma, matka, travel The Assembly Rooms The Assembly Rooms were first used during race week in August 1732, what we know today as Ebor Week. Designed by Richard Boyle, Lord Burlington. Burlington’s Assembly Rooms were a stylish masterpiece, an 18th century version of an ancient Egyptian Hall designed for festivals and entertainments. He drew upon an illustration by the 16th century Italian architect Palladio to create a theatrical interior of Corinthian columns and bays, which contrasted with the elegantly simple exterior. A new entrance front was designed by JP Pritchett in 1828. : England, Englanti, Holiday, York, city, kaupunki, kesäloma, matka, travel St. Wilfrid's Catholic Church St. Wilfrid's, a Roman Catholic church dedicated to St. Wilfrid, has stood in York since medieval times. The present Church was completed in 1864 and it was considered to be one of the most perfectly finished Catholic Churches in England, rich in sculptures, paintings and stained glass. : England, Englanti, Holiday, York, city, kaupunki, kesäloma, matka, travel York Minster The formal title of York Minster is "The Cathedral and Metropolitical Church of St Peter in York". The title "minster" is attributed to churches established in the Anglo-Saxon period as missionary teaching churches, and serves now as an honorific title. The Gothic style in cathedrals had arrived in the mid 12th century. Walter de Gray was made archbishop in 1215 and ordered the construction of a Gothic structure to compare to Canterbury; building began in 1220. The north and south transepts were the first new structures; completed in the 1250s, both were built in the Early English Gothic style but had markedly different wall elevations. A substantial central tower was also completed, with a wooden spire. Building continued into the 15th century. : England, Englanti, Holiday, York, city, kaupunki, kesäloma, matka, travel
South-African war memorial A memorial for York soldiers and sailors who died in South Africa 1899-1902 in the second Boer war. : England, Englanti, Holiday, York, city, kaupunki, kesäloma, matka, travel St Michael le Belfrey The present church building was built between 1525 and 1536 and replaced a church that dated back to at least 1294. The church is famous for being the place where Guy Fawkes was christened on 16 April 1570.[1] Fawkes was christened an Anglican but later converted to Catholicism which led to the failed 1605 Gunpowder Plot. The church was also the scene of the wedding of Christopher Levett of York, the English explorer, to Mercy More, daughter of Rev. Robert More of Guiseley, Yorkshire, in 1608. : England, Englanti, Holiday, York, city, kaupunki, kesäloma, matka, travel High Petergate A half-timbered house on High Petergate close to Bootham Bar. : England, Englanti, Holiday, York, city, kaupunki, kesäloma, matka, travel Bootham Bar Located on a site that has had a gateway into York since 71AD the current three storey stone tower replaced an original and much smaller wooden structure built by the Romans to give access to Principia, the Roman Headquarters. Bootham Bar contains some stonework from as early as the 11th Century, such as the main archway, although the majority is from the 14th when it was heightened to add a portcullis which although no longer working is still housed in the tower. Bootham Bar was also known to have displayed the decapitated heads of traitors as a warning to others. : England, Englanti, Holiday, York, city, kaupunki, kesäloma, matka, travel
York City Wall The majority of the remaining walls, which encircle the whole of the medieval city, date from the 12th - 14th century, with some reconstruction carried out in the 19th century and later. From the east corner of the Roman walls, the medieval wall extends to Layerthorpe Bridge. : England, Englanti, Holiday, York, city, kaupunki, kesäloma, matka, travel York Minster York Minster seen from the city walls : England, Englanti, Holiday, York, city, kaupunki, kesäloma, matka, travel Bile Beans Oldish wall ad for Bile Beans : England, Englanti, Holiday, York, city, kaupunki, kesäloma, matka, travel Monk Bar Monk Bar is the largest and most ornate of the bars, it dates from the early 14th century. It was a self-contained fortress, with each floor capable of being defended. On the front of the bar is an arch supporting a gallery, including 'murder-holes' through which missiles and boiling water could be rained down upon attackers. Monk Bar has the city’s only working portcullis, in use until 1970. Like the other main gateways, Monk Bar originally had a barbican on the front. This was demolished in 1825 : England, Englanti, Holiday, York, city, kaupunki, kesäloma, matka, travel
Monk Bar Monk Bar is the largest and most ornate of the bars, it dates from the early 14th century. It was a self-contained fortress, with each floor capable of being defended. On the front of the bar is an arch supporting a gallery, including 'murder-holes' through which missiles and boiling water could be rained down upon attackers. Monk Bar has the city’s only working portcullis, in use until 1970. Like the other main gateways, Monk Bar originally had a barbican on the front. This was demolished in 1825 : England, Englanti, Holiday, York, city, kaupunki, kesäloma, matka, travel Monk Bar Monk Bar is the largest and most ornate of the bars, it dates from the early 14th century. It was a self-contained fortress, with each floor capable of being defended. On the front of the bar is an arch supporting a gallery, including 'murder-holes' through which missiles and boiling water could be rained down upon attackers. Monk Bar has the city’s only working portcullis, in use until 1970. Like the other main gateways, Monk Bar originally had a barbican on the front. This was demolished in 1825 : England, Englanti, Holiday, York, city, kaupunki, kesäloma, matka, travel Monk Bar Monk Bar is the largest and most ornate of the bars, it dates from the early 14th century. It was a self-contained fortress, with each floor capable of being defended. On the front of the bar is an arch supporting a gallery, including 'murder-holes' through which missiles and boiling water could be rained down upon attackers. Monk Bar has the city’s only working portcullis, in use until 1970. Like the other main gateways, Monk Bar originally had a barbican on the front. This was demolished in 1825 : England, Englanti, Holiday, York, city, kaupunki, kesäloma, matka, travel The Golden Slipper Golden Slipper is really two pubs, one a jettied timber framed building from around 1500, the other an 18th century 'extension' with late 19th century remodelling. Originally built as private dwelling, pecisely when it became a public house is unknown, but in 1821 the pub is mentioned in a local paper following the robbery of one of its patrons. : England, Englanti, Holiday, York, city, kaupunki, kesäloma, matka, travel
The Golden Slipper Golden Slipper is really two pubs, one a jettied timber framed building from around 1500, the other an 18th century 'extension' with late 19th century remodelling. Originally built as private dwelling, pecisely when it became a public house is unknown, but in 1821 the pub is mentioned in a local paper following the robbery of one of its patrons. : England, Englanti, Holiday, York, city, kaupunki, kesäloma, matka, travel La Piazza La Piazza, a restaurant located in an old half-timbered house : England, Englanti, Holiday, York, city, kaupunki, kesäloma, matka, travel People with Yorkshire flag The flag used to represent Yorkshire is a White Rose of York on a blue background. The design dates from the 1960s. The flag was registered by the Flag Institute on 29 July 2008 at the request of the Yorkshire Ridings Society. The design registered by the YRS was one of three rival flag designs for Yorkshire. : England, Englanti, Holiday, York, city, kaupunki, kesäloma, matka, travel Goodramgate A view of Goodramgate : England, Englanti, Holiday, York, city, kaupunki, kesäloma, matka, travel
Old White Swan A sign of Old White Swan pub : England, Englanti, Holiday, York, city, kaupunki, kesäloma, matka, travel The York Roast Yorkish Hog sign : England, Englanti, Holiday, York, city, kaupunki, kesäloma, matka, travel Millie's cookies Have a cookie! : England, Englanti, Holiday, York, city, kaupunki, kesäloma, matka, travel Real Lemonade A lemonade wagon on Kings Square : England, Englanti, Holiday, York, city, kaupunki, kesäloma, matka, travel
The Shambles The Great Flesh Shambles, probably from the Anglo-Saxon Fleshammels (literally 'flesh-shelves'), the word for the shelves that butchers used to display their meat. As recently as 1872 there were twenty-five butchers' shops in the street but now there are none. : England, Englanti, Holiday, York, city, kaupunki, kesäloma, matka, travel The Shrine of the Saint Margaret Clitherow She was born as Margaret Middleton. In 1586, she was arrested and called before the York assizes for the crime of harbouring Roman Catholic priests. She refused to plead to the case so as to prevent a trial that would entail her children being made to testify, and therefore being subjected to torture. As a result she was executed by being crushed to death – the standard punishment for refusal to plead – on Good Friday 1586. The two sergeants who should have killed her hired four desperate beggars to kill her. She was stripped and had a handkerchief tied across her face then laid out upon a sharp rock the size of a man's fist, a door was put on top of her and slowly loaded with an immense weight of rocks and stones (the small sharp rock would break her back when the heavy rocks were laid on top of her). : England, Englanti, Holiday, York, city, kaupunki, kesäloma, matka, travel Fruit market Fruit stall at the market : England, Englanti, Holiday, York, city, kaupunki, kesäloma, matka, travel Medieval house Medieval house near Shambles : England, Englanti, Holiday, York, city, kaupunki, kesäloma, matka, travel
The Hat Company A flock of hats :) : England, Englanti, Holiday, York, city, kaupunki, kesäloma, matka, travel Golden Fleece A sign of Golden Fleece inn, considered by some as the most haunted pub in York. : England, Englanti, Holiday, York, city, kaupunki, kesäloma, matka, travel The Three Tuns A traditional pub in the heart of York. Established in 1782 it's one of Yorks oldest pubs. : England, Englanti, Holiday, York, city, kaupunki, kesäloma, matka, travel Yellow and Black Yellow and black doors : England, Englanti, Holiday, York, city, kaupunki, kesäloma, matka, travel
It's Good to be a King Kid posing for his father : England, Englanti, Holiday, York, city, kaupunki, kesäloma, matka, travel Fairfax House Fairfax House is a Georgian town house displaying one of the finest collections of English eighteenth-century furniture to be found anywhere. It was created by Viscount Fairfax in 1762 to provide a residence for the Fairfax family during York's winter social season of events, balls and assemblies. It was also intended as a dowry for the Viscount's only surviving child, Anne - although this was not destined to be, as Anne remained unmarried throughout her life. The Viscount turned to York's most distinguished architect, John Carr, to redesign the pre-existing building on the Castlegate site and to create a new interior : England, Englanti, Holiday, York, city, kaupunki, kesäloma, matka, travel York Castle York Castle is a fortified complex comprising, over the last nine centuries, a sequence of castles, prisons, law courts and other buildings on the south side of the River Foss : England, Englanti, Holiday, York, city, kaupunki, kesäloma, matka, travel Clifford's Tower Clifford's Tower is of an unusual design. The two storey tower has a quatrefoil plan with four circular lobes. Each lobe measures 6.5 metres across, with walls 3 metres thick; at its widest, the tower is 24 metres across. A square gatehouse, 6.5 metres wide, protected the entrance on the south side between two of the lobes. There are defensive turrets between the other lobes. Large corbels and a central pier supported the huge weight of stone and the first floor. Loopholes of a design unique to York Castle provided firing points. A chapel was built over the entrance, measuring 4.5 metres by 4.2 metres, doubling as a portcullis chamber as at Harlech and Chepstow castles. The tower is believed to be an experiment in improving flanking fire by making more ground visible from the summit of the keep. Although unique to England, the design of the tower closely resembles that at Étampes in France, and may have influenced the design of the future keep of Pontefract Castle. Henry employed master mason Henry de Rayns and chief carpenter Simon of Northampton for the project, and the cost of the tower accounted for the majority of the overall expenditure on the castle during this period of work. : England, Englanti, Holiday, York, city, kaupunki, kesäloma, matka, travel
Ice cream van Creme Cone of Leeds ice-cream van : England, Englanti, Holiday, York, city, kaupunki, kesäloma, matka, travel Bark! A bit different kind of van driver :). : England, Englanti, Holiday, York, city, kaupunki, kesäloma, matka, travel Soap! Soap artist making pubbles : England, Englanti, Holiday, York, city, kaupunki, kesäloma, matka, travel Nice clock A beautiful clock on a former church's wall : England, Englanti, Holiday, York, city, kaupunki, kesäloma, matka, travel
St Mary's Abbey ruins The ruins of St Mary's Abbey, first built in 1088, are all that remains of one of the wealthiest and most powerful Benedictine monasteries in England. : England, Englanti, Holiday, York, city, kaupunki, kesäloma, matka, travel Old Guys Rule Old biker with a beautiful Harley Davidson : England, Englanti, Holiday, York, city, kaupunki, kesäloma, matka, travel The Lighthorseman The Lighthorseman Inn, our lodging in York : Holiday, York, city, kaupunki, kesäloma, matka, travel Sunbathing Panda sunbathing : Holiday, York, city, kaupunki, kesäloma, matka, travel
Rowing Practising on river Ouse : Holiday, York, city, kaupunki, kesäloma, matka, travel