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The Friends of York Walls invite you to share your photographs with us on our Flickr Group. You can view the existing “group pool” of images via the above link, and you are welcome to join the group to upload your own photographs. Normal Flickr account rules apply. ...
Fishergate Postern Tower – Detailed Plans
The Friends of York Walls are continuing to work towards the restoration, and ultimate opening, of Fishergate Postern Tower as a community / visitor centre. Mass Architecture (based at Kings Court, The Shambles, York) are working with The Friends on detailed proposals to refurbish the inside of the tower to include ...
Fishergate Postern “Sponsor a Stone”
Friends of York Walls are continuing to work towards the refurbishment and ultimate re-opening of Fishergate Postern Tower. One of the ways we are seeking to raise funds is by inviting the general public and local businesses to “Sponsor a Stone”. This major fund raising activity was officially launched in ...
Membership
The Friends of York Walls is a voluntary non-profit making group. The group aims to help promote, manage and develop York's historic defences (including the Bar Walls, St Mary's Abbey’s medieval boundary walls, Clifford’s Tower and the Castle’s old walls) for the benefit of local residents and visitors. We organise ...
| Where Is This? – Numbers 19 & 20The solution to last weeks Picture Number 19 – This is St Mary's Tower, at the corner of Marygate and Bootham, a corner tower to the abbey walls. Built sometime between 1318 and 1324 by Stephen de Austewyk, St Mary's tower has changed much over the years. |
| Festival of Archaeology – FPT OpeningThe Council for British Archaeology are organising a “Festival of Archaeology 2013” from 13th to 28th July 2013. |
| Where Is This? – Numbers 18 & 19The solution to last weeks Picture Number 18 – The Multangular Tower in the Museum Gardens is the most noticeable and intact structure remaining from the Roman walls. It was constructed as part of a series of eight similar defensive towers. |
| Notice of AGM - 15th April 2013The Friends of York Walls 2nd Annual General Meeting will be on Monday 15th April 2013 at 7:30pm Venue: Bedern Hall, St. Andrewgate, York. YO1 7AL 01904 646030 Motions to be submitted to the Secretary: sec@yorkwalls.org. |
| Where Is This? – Numbers 17 & 18The solution to last weeks Picture Number 17 – The narrow spiral staircase is inside Fishergate Postern Tower - an impressive, grade I listed, rectangular stone building at the end Piccadilly, opposite the Wetherspoon’s “The Postern Gate”. |
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| Where Is This? – Numbers 16 & 17The solution to last weeks Picture Number 16 :– Heraldry on Micklegate Bar includes the carved plaque commemorating the restoration of 1727, with shield of arms of Lord Mayor Sir John Lister Kaye; two shields of the Arms of the City of York... |
| Litter Pickers - Knickers in a twist?On a damp Monday morning, on 4th March 2013, volunteers from the Friends of York Walls carried out a litter pick along the York wall ramparts close to Baile Hill, under the supervision of Paul from the City of York Council. |
| Where Is This? – Numbers 15 & 16The solution to last weeks Picture Number 15 – Bootham Bar is on the site of one of the four main entrances to the Roman fortress. There has been a gateway here for nearly 2000 years. |
| Where Is This? – Numbers 14 & 15The solution to last weeks Picture Number 14 – “Railway Arches”. The railways arrival in York had a dramatic impact on the walls. The first railway station was built immediately outside the city walls and opened on the 29 May 1839. |
| Where Is This? – Numbers 13 & 14The solution to last weeks Picture Number 13 – It’s Fishergate Bar, one of the six gateways in the city walls. It faces south towards Selby. ‘Barram Fishergate’ is the first documented reference to the bar, in 1315. |
