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Use this updated version: York England’s number one community page, sharing daily photos, videos and stories from one of England’s most historic cities. BookYork.com offers excellent accommodation in the heart of York city centre. You can also play Yorkle, our daily York-themed word game, created for people who love the city and enjoy a quick daily challenge: https://bookyork.com/pages/yorkle/

01/11/2026

A restaurant entrance worth walking twice. ✨

Through the lights at Ate O’Clock, just off High Ousegate in York. Have you eaten here?

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01/11/2026

There’s a Roman bathhouse beneath those pub windows.

The Roman Bath on St Sampson’s Square was once known as the Mail Coach. During rebuilding in 1930–31, workers uncovered part of the bathhouse that served York’s Roman fortress.

The remains include a hot room and traces of a hypocaust, the heating system that circulated hot air beneath a raised floor. Roman underfloor heating, preserved below a York pub.

Baths were places to socialise as well as wash. There’s something rather fitting about people still meeting above the same spot, centuries after Roman bathers gathered here.

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01/11/2026

All this detail for a draper’s shop.

This is 3 Coppergate, dated 1908 and once part of G. W. Harding’s drapery premises. The two reclining figures above the arched window make quite a frame, with a curved bay window rising above them.

There’s a remarkable family story attached to the shop, too. On 11 November 1918, the Hardings hung flags outside their premises to mark the end of the First World War. A century later, five were rediscovered neatly folded in a drawer and donated to York Castle Museum.

Harding’s continued trading here until 1974. Does anyone remember shopping there?

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31/10/2026

The sign says “Here for real Pizza”. Cresci has the credentials to back it up. 🍕

Cresci on Piccadilly comes up often in conversations about York’s best pizza. Its Neapolitan credentials are official: it holds certification from the Associazione Verace Pizza Napoletana, the organisation in Naples that protects traditional Neapolitan pizza-making.

Their pizzas use sourdough bases and ingredients including San Marzano tomatoes, baked in a wood-fired oven. There’s some substance behind that glowing promise in the window.

If you’ve eaten here, which pizza would you order again?

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31/10/2026

At the Golden Fleece, even rearranging the furniture comes with a ghost story.

Behind that narrow frontage on Pavement, local legend has Lady Alice Peckett roaming the corridors and shifting furniture in the small hours.

Alice was the wife of John Peckett, York’s Lord Mayor in 1702. The couple lived at No. 11 in nearby Lady Peckett’s Yard, which takes its name from her. Her place in York’s history is well documented; her late-night activities remain a story to tell over a pint.

Happy Halloween, everyone. Hope your furniture stays where you left it. 🎃

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31/10/2026

That little window on the right is where York’s ‘Crying Girl’ is said to appear.

The stone house is 5 Minster Yard, beside St William’s College on College Street, and it’s often called the Plague House in ghost stories.

One version tells of parents who died during a plague outbreak, leaving their young daughter uninfected. With the house sealed, she called to people outside for help. Nobody would approach for fear of catching the disease, and the story says she eventually starved. Her ghost is said to return to the window.

It’s a local legend with several versions. The house itself has a long, documented history: parts of a timber-framed building dating from around 1300 survive inside.

And those two windows weren’t added together. The larger projecting window dates from 1891; the small one already appears in earlier photographs. Look beneath the larger window for the date and St Peter’s crossed keys, carved into the stone.

Have you heard a different version of the girl’s story on a York ghost walk?

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30/10/2026

The flowers have their own bicycle at Lucia. 🌼

This is the Italian restaurant and bar’s courtyard in Swinegate Court East, just off Grape Lane. Seen through the covered passage, that yellow bicycle and its overflowing baskets lead the eye towards pink seating and a blue-and-white striped awning.

The courtyard is heated, too — a useful detail if you’ve ever wondered about eating outside here.

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30/10/2026

A York church that lost its steeple nearly 475 years ago.

This is the former Church of St John the Evangelist, at the Bridge Street end of Micklegate. Parts of the building date back to the 12th century, but there’s a particularly interesting story behind that little timber-framed bell tower.

In 1551–52, the church’s steeple collapsed and was never rebuilt. The timber belfry visible today was added in 1646.

Even more remarkably, three bells rescued from St Nicholas’ Hospital during the Civil War siege of York in 1644 were installed here in 1653.

The nearby River Ouse also left its mark. Following the great flood of 31 December 1763, the church floor was raised by around 45 cm.

The church closed for worship in 1939, later became an arts centre and is now home to Jalou bar.

Quite a history behind a building thousands of people pass on their way across Ouse Bridge!

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29/10/2026

Some of the carvings above York Minster’s west doors date from the 1990s.

The older figures around the Great West Door had deteriorated so badly that replacements were commissioned. Sculptor Rory Young designed sixteen new groups, modelling them in clay before the Minster’s own carvers recreated them in stone.

The restored doorway and its surround were completed in May 1998. Surviving medieval sculpture elsewhere around the entrance was carefully conserved, bringing work from different centuries together.

Next time you stop on these steps, look at the figures following the curve of the arch. There’s craftsmanship from within living memory in this familiar view.

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29/10/2026

In 1396, the Minster’s singing clergy were given permission to build a bridge over Goodramgate.

The vicars choral lived at Bedern, across the road from this gatehouse beside the National Trust shop. Their proposed crossing would connect rooms above the gateways on either side, giving them a safer route to the Minster, particularly at night.

There’s an important detail to the story, though: researchers examining the documents and surviving buildings found no evidence that the bridge was actually built. The permission is documented; its construction remains unproven.

What survives here is the last of the Minster precinct’s four historic gateways. Rebuilt around 1600 and again in 1903, it incorporates reused timber. Even without a confirmed bridge, this was an entrance connecting the daily lives of the vicars with the Minster.

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