Saturday 15 December 2012

Photos of York - I hope!


Right, many thanks to Mac n' Janet for suggesting Flickr to store my photos on.  I see I have limited storage on there each month too, so I may load some on Flickr and some on Photobucket, and see if I can manage that way!

Anyway, here is one of the Fairground rides at York recently - the Gallopers.


York Minster from the front - the best I could do without getting run over!

And in slightly more close-up.  Sorry they aren't very sharp, but that's because I have enlarged them.

The ruins of St Mary's Abbey in the York Castle Museum gardens (the Museum we couldn't afford to go in . . .)

The 14th C Lendal Tower by the River Ouse is a partner to the Barker Tower on the opposite bank, and a chain used to be hung between the two, so that a toll could be extracted by boats wishing to pass.


Our beautiful eldest daughter T, whose birthday treat this outing was.


Part of the market in York.




Above: Barley Hall, York.  Below: Day to day Medieval living inside the Barley Hall   We  visited there for the Medieval Craft Fair, and I bought a present for my husband - a candle holder made using part of old (oak) farm machinery, and some thrifted (!) beach-combed Amber chips (drilled for jewellery) from a Dutch beach, which my clever daughter turned into earrings for me when we got back to her flat.

7 comments:

  1. Beautiful !
    What a wonderful trip. I have loved each time I have visited York, I always had the best time.

    Don't know if I have mentioned this yet but I adore your header photo.

    cheers, parsnip

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  2. Again, I love the header. Thank you for the look around York;so happy you did not get run over!

    Your daughter is lovely. I hope she had a grand day out.

    Merry Christmas to you and yours.

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  3. Thank you both. We had a really LOVELY day out there, and my daughter treated me endlessly, bless her, as she had a wage coming in and I didn't. I just wish it hadn't been quite so cold!

    Glad you both like the header - it is one of my favourite snow photos I've taken locally, and is the mane lane between the A40 and Llanfynydd - not that there was much traffic along it THAT day.

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  4. Glad that Flickr is going to work for you, we visited York in the late 90's and loved it, good pix.

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  5. Lovely to see York; I haven't been there for SO many years - thank you. Daughter is beautiful but I'm sure you know that!

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  6. Yes your daughter is beautiful, and you both must have had a good time. Must agree with you that the roads are very busy, normally pass through on the train which stops at York, then another train to Scarborough, and then a bus ride to Whitby takes hours!

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  7. Lovely photos of your visit to York. It is one of those old cities where historical treasures appear every time you turn a corner.

    T looks well and quite stunning. She could be a Pre Raphaelite muse :-) Hope she will soon be home with you , for Christmas.

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