Planning has begun for the third York Walls Festival, which takes place in August. A January meeting, hosted at York Explore, established a seven-strong committee to help bring plans together. Ideas discussed included the following: York Explore could either run the tile-decorating workshop (as in 2019) or Map Attack with Lego (as in 2018) Possibility…
Time has flown by since we wrote our first Walls Weekly post over 8 weeks ago, we now have less than a week to go until the York Walls Festival 2019 commences! This week, we have been busy delivering our York Walls Festival posters around the city, have you seen one yet? Today we will…
Walks and Talks: With only 2 weeks to go until the York Walls Festival 2019 we are nearly prepared for festival weekend! Have you planned what activities you will be doing yet? Here’s a reminder about what walks/ talks we have on offer for you! York’s Red Brick Treasures Walk: Firstly, we have the Red Brick…
As we get closer and closer to festival weekend, plans that were once just notes on a piece of paper are pulling together. With only three more weeks to go, we have more exciting updates to make sure the weekend is jam packed with activities for all our visitors. If you’re a fan of song,…
General Update: Welcome back to Walls Weekly 6! This week will be a general update of what we have been up to for the past week! With only 4 weeks left until the York Walls Festival 2019 we are very busy over here with finalising events, activities, plans and much more! The River Foss Society (activity): …
As we celebrate the fifth instalment of our Walls Weekly blog posts and only five more weeks until the festival itself, I thought I’d keep with the theme of five and give you five exciting updates that have taken shape this week. First of all, at our festival meeting on Friday 5th July at The…
Conservation and the City Walls, by Dr. Louisa Hood, Bar Walls Manager, CYC
This image shows the upper storey of Bootham Bar. One of the statues on top of the bar represents a stonemason, a key figure in the construction and conservation of the city walls! What is conservation? Conservation, with its connotations of frugality and preservation, is the term used to describe how we care for places…
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