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10/09/2025

The Anglian Tower, discovered in 1839 when the owner, Charles Heneage Elsey, the City Recorder, of 9 St Leonard’s Place wanted a tunnel dug to lead from his back garden to his stables in nearby Mint Yard.

09/08/2025

Ahead of the boys boxing next month, we’ve got something special at the gym for kids in the local community!

Matchroom Boxing are going to be in the gym on Monday 2-4pm filming the boys!

We’d love kids from the local area, whether they’ve boxed before or not, to come down, and take part in a session with Leo and Brad.

Alongside this, there’s a competition available to win TWO RINGSIDE TICKETS for the lads fights in Sunderland!

Please share this post so we can get as many youngsters as possible involved!!!

35 Stonegate, AKA At The Sign of the Bible Part 3. One of my favourite parts of the house was the carved wooden face wit...
02/08/2025

35 Stonegate, AKA At The Sign of the Bible Part 3. One of my favourite parts of the house was the carved wooden face with the teeth. You just don’t get that level of attention to detail in modern buildings.

35 Stonegate AKA At The Sign of the Bible. Part 2. More original features than you can shake a stick at so this and the ...
02/08/2025

35 Stonegate AKA At The Sign of the Bible. Part 2. More original features than you can shake a stick at so this and the final post (Part 3) are pretty much just a photo dump but just to reiterate, this building is amazing and in great condition from top to bottom.

35 Stonegate AKA At The Sign of the Bible, one of the most impressive buildings on Stonegate and that’s saying something...
02/08/2025

35 Stonegate AKA At The Sign of the Bible, one of the most impressive buildings on Stonegate and that’s saying something! The front is the original building that has later been merged with other buildings to the rear. A bookshop from 1682-1873 before being bought by JW Knowles. Much of the stained glass is from when he used it as his residence and workshop. His family used the house until the 90’s when Jonathan Cainer astrologer bought it. He sold it for £800,000 in 2014 then a year later it sold for £1.8 million!

9 Bridge St, built circa 1820, the building includes part of 1 Skeldergate. Sam is the first shop owner to invite me to ...
23/07/2025

9 Bridge St, built circa 1820, the building includes part of 1 Skeldergate. Sam is the first shop owner to invite me to check out his basement so I was very grateful to come have a look. Thankfully he’s someone that utilises and maintains the cellar areas and has installed a window on the stairwell side in a sympathetic way to the building to aid light and fresh air, but still in certain areas there are large puddles in the under pavement areas due to drainage issues from the road. Thanks for the invite

16 Parliament Street, built during the creation of Parliament St in 1836-1839. Named after the act of Parliament that en...
23/06/2025

16 Parliament Street, built during the creation of Parliament St in 1836-1839. Named after the act of Parliament that enabled its creation. Roughly 50 buildings were demolished to join St Sampsons Sq to Pavement. Made wide enough to accommodate market stalls all the way down. In this basement part of the Roman fortress wall was found during work in 1987, this may be visible in one of the photos as resembles what I’ve seen in Harkers basement albeit possibly concreted over. Thank you to the charming Claire for giving me access.

York Medical Society, 23 Stonegate. One of their old wine cellars is still rented out to a wine merchant and I was lucky...
07/06/2025

York Medical Society, 23 Stonegate. One of their old wine cellars is still rented out to a wine merchant and I was lucky enough to get a look around recently. Some of the tile like bricks are possibly Tudor according to John Shaw.

30-32 High Petergate. Built in 1838 after the demolition of Peter Prison and the Minster Gate (shown on one photo taken ...
03/06/2025

30-32 High Petergate. Built in 1838 after the demolition of Peter Prison and the Minster Gate (shown on one photo taken from a framed picture kept in the basement). The large stone foundations seen are the same as in the under pavement passageways of Dean Court Hotel.

Popped in for a flat white, got chatting to the owner Steve who was kind enough to open up the hatch in his cafe floor 😄...
11/05/2025

Popped in for a flat white, got chatting to the owner Steve who was kind enough to open up the hatch in his cafe floor 😄 Quite small but lovely to see the old stonework at the base of the walls down there and an interesting blocked up doorway which Steve hadn’t noticed…the cellar doesn’t go the back of the cafe so why was the wall built and blocked up?

36 Stonegate. Another prime example of a large basement i.e. a whole floor of a building being blocked off, unused and l...
09/05/2025

36 Stonegate. Another prime example of a large basement i.e. a whole floor of a building being blocked off, unused and left to go damp. Amazing original features down there. Prime real estate. This would never happen in London as square footage is too valuable.

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