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Time for the solution to photo Number 5 and to give you Where is This photo Number 6!

First, the solution to Number 5:-

The steps onto the wall walk by the Red Tower (built c1490). This section of the walls is low, as is the rampart on which it stands, and has been much restored. The date of this section of the original stone wall is uncertain, possibly mid c14, restored 1857-58, 1864 and later. The internal arches supporting the wall walk along this section probably date from around 1500.

So now for Mystery Picture Number 6:-

Lounlith gate, of which no trace remains, is thought to have pierced the city wall at the site of this “modern” Bar.

The answer will be given here on our FaceBook page.

Time for the solution to photo Number 4 and to give you Where is This photo Number 5!

First, the solution to Number 4:-

The Tower Street view of the only remaining section of the curtain wall of York Castle bailey – approximately 85 M long and including the South Angle tower and the South-East tower; now incorporated into the Castle Museum buildings. You’ll find these near the old Ryedale Mill and waterwheel by the River Foss. This area has recently been restored by the Castle Museum.

So now for Mystery Picture Number 5 :-

There are lots of stone steps around the walls. Can you identify where these colour coded steps are?

The answer will be given on our FaceBook page.

Time for the solution to photo Number 3 and to give you Where is This photo Number 4!

First, the solution to Number 3:-

Its Bootham Tower the rectangular tower and postern on the opposite side of the road from Bootham Bar in Exhibition Square. The tower was built in 1497 as a rear entrance to the Abbot’s House, which became the King’s Manor, a royal palace and the seat from 1540 to 1641 of the Council of the North. The tower is constructed of brick behind a stone facing. The three-story tower has a gabled roof now, but the windows in the South East and North West walls may once have been crenelations on a flat-topped tower.

In summer months the tower is used as a booking office and information point for York City Sightseeing open-top bus tours.

So now for Mystery Picture Number 4 :-

Again a location passed by thousands of people every day – but more wheels than feet ! Can you identify where it is ?

Time for the solution to photo Number 2 and to give you Where is This photo Number 3!

First, the solution to Number 2:-

This now never-gargling gargoyle once drained water from the wall-walk around the top of Clifford’s Tower however the wall-walk is now about two foot too low to be drained through the mouth of this weathered demon. The walk was probably lowered in Elizabethan times by the enterprising gaoler Robert Redhead who was accused of selling off the stone but the Corporation complained to London and the tower was saved for us all to enjoy.

So now for Mystery Picture Number 3:-

A little easier this time! – This location is passed by thousands of people every day. Can you identify where it is, and why you would go inside that door ?

The answer will be given here on our FaceBook page.