April 2nd to 7th 2025 Photos by Hetty
Five nights in York
During our stay we visited Clifford’s Tower, York Minster, National Railway Museum, Fairfax House, Treasurer’s House and we walked around the walls and through the centre.
Clifford’s Tower
www.english-heritage.org.uk/visit/places/cliffords-tower-york/
The keep – all that remains of this castle
Inside
View from the top of the tower
National Railway Museum
Gates from Euston Station, London 1837
1934 replica of George and Robert Stephenson’s Rocket 1829 [on left] and another from 1829
1830 coaches – statue of George Stephenson behind
Engine called Cheltenham
Evening Star, built in Swindon 1960
1874 with open cab
1870
Coppernob 1846
1885
1938 Mallard – world speed record for a steam engine
A cutaway engine – the guide explained how it works
Richard Trevithick mine engineer in Cornwall, in the museum store
1834 second class carriages and third class
York Minster
Statues of the kings of England from William the Conqueror to Henry VI
Looking up into the central tower
North Transept
South Transept – repaired after the fire in 1984
13th century cope chest
Much of the stained glass dates from 1310
This one was paid for by a bell founder and has lots of bells in it
There is such a lot of detail
Door to the chapter house
In the chapter house
There are hundreds of faces
In the crypt are Norman columns
Outside is a Roman column that was found under the floor
Constantine the Great was proclaimed Roman emperor by his army in York in 306 AD
Stone mason’s yard
Fairfax House
A Georgian town house with a collection of furniture donated by Mr Terry of Terry chocolate
Treasurer’s House
Bought in 1897 by Frank Green, who transformed it to house his collection
Bar Convent
by Micklegate bar, a secret Roman Catholic convent https://barconvent.co.uk/
Established in 1686, at a time when it was illegal to be Catholic, a group of religious sisters opened this secret convent.
York Walls and Centre
We stayed just outside the centre and walked through Micklegate Bar each day.
The streets are called “gates” and the “gateways” are called bars.
A view from the walls
The bridges over the two rivers in York had toll houses
14th century Hospitium, once part of St Mary’s Abbey, now in the Museum Gardens
Left – Base of a Roman tower. Right was a Roman building
Kings Manor – once the abbot’s house of St Marys’s Abbey and dating from the 15th century, King James I stayed here in 1603. Now part of the university
Yorkshire Museum in Museum Gardens [left] and library [right]
Bootham Bar
Monk Bar – left
Walmgate Bar, the only one to retain its barbican, portcullis and inner doors
Right – the trees are on a mound where another castle keep once stood
Left – York Theatre Royal
Holy Trinity at Goodramgate – medieval church with 1470s stained glass
A walk by the river
Rowntree Park
