These photos were all collected on a random walk through York in the space of an hour. Just an example of the oddities that can be picked up if you just keep your eyes open.
Shops like these are rare treasurs in the city but like all treasure they are very expensive.
An unwitting comment on our times?
The Arms of the Company of Merchant Venturers.
Straight lines are a bourgeois concept.
While the Shambles is York's most famous medieval street it is spacious compared to Lady Peckett's Yard where you really could have shaken hands across the gap.
The elegant lines of the Yorkshire Insurance Company building, now a restaurant.
Stone blocks awaiting placement in the never ending upkeep of York Minster.
A strange object to find among the ashlars in the Minster stone compound. The teeth marks reveal something of it's true nature.
Monk Bar Models is an old institution in York. It's always worth stopping by to see what's going on in the window. These guys were keeping an eye on things.
N guage models. Cute and enable a more for less approach. Left to right there's a Deltic prototype, Class 86 AC electric, LNER Thompson B1, BR Class 158.
The big brothers of N guage, HO/OO guage trains have a siding to themselves. Up front is the new EMD Class 70 (Fuggly) backed by a Maunsel Schools Class 4-4-0. The wee tank is a Drumond 264 0F saddle tank and at the back on bricks is the remains of a Brush Class 47 under heavy repair.
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