Clements Hall Local History Group

Micklegate book cover

Our new book about Micklegate is out this week, packed with stories, facts, photos and memories. Details and stockists at www.clementshallhistorygroup.org.uk/blog/mickleg... @balhnews.bsky.social @yorkfhs.bsky.social

Yale promotional key hanging at Pextons since the 1940's. Made of solid aluminium recycled from WWII airplanes.

My problem is that they are a bit heavy for cycle touring with panniers.

Pextons in the late 1960s

Pextons today

Our latest blogpost features 90 years of Pextons Hardware on Bishy Road in #York www.clementshallhistorygroup.org.uk/blog/pextons... @balhnews.bsky.social @yorkfhs.bsky.social

We believe the library originally started in Micklegate House in Micklegate in the early 1960s?

Slip manager Harry Cooke and Susan Major from Clements Hall Local History Group, with the new display panel

Slip Inn at Clementhorpe new inn sign

We've renewed our display panel at @theslipinnyork.bsky.social in Clementhorpe, #York, as the history of shipbuilding and other industries nearby is of great interest to customers. There's a new inn sign too, as the old sign was very misleading www.clementshallhistorygroup.org.uk/blog/echoes-...

Cover of our forthcoming book about Micklegate

Our book about Micklegate, out on 15 October.

There's a great feature on our new Micklegate book in today's Yorkshire Post. The book is due out on 15 October.

York's 'popular' community-run pub on the market at more than half a million York’s first community-owned pub has gone on the market.

www.yorkpress.co.uk/news/2545724...

Scoria bricks in the back alleys of York

I've written a blogpost for the British Association for Local History (BALH), about our scoria bricks research, www.balh.org.uk/blog-scoria-...

Three cars parked along a street in front of a large, historic red brick building with white trim and multiple windows under a clear blue sky.

In one of our latest blogs, Susan Major considers the history of Micklegate in York.

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#WeAreLocalHistory #LocalHistoryForAll

We've got a free guided walk around Bishophill coming up soon, on 28 September, with Tee Bylo. Details here
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/a-bishophi... @yorkfhs.bsky.social

Our Micklegate blogpost is now up on the @balhnews.bsky.social website at www.balh.org.uk/blog-mickleg...

Archetype menswear shop

Shutishuti patisserie

Lydia, ceramicist at Rock Garden Studio

Our latest blogpost welcomes three new independent shops in our local area of #York, setting them in the context of the 150 years history of their premises, all corner shops. @balhnews.bsky.social @yorkfhs.bsky.social
www.clementshallhistorygroup.org.uk/blog/putting...

View of Micklegate hill looking up

Some news about our latest book, this time about Micklegate in #York www.clementshallhistorygroup.org.uk/blog/mickleg... @balhnews.bsky.social @yorkfhs.bsky.social

Yes, great news!

Building at 1 Museum St York

We spoke in favour of the new Toppings York bookshop tonight at 1 Museum St, and I'm delighted to say that the Planning Committee voted unanimously against the officer recommendation to refuse it. They have now referred it back for officer approval.

This is 'Brontë Country' - the middle of Keighley, barely a couple of miles from Haworth in living memory.

Coal-fired factories, quarries, worked out clay pits, gas works, engineering companies...

Photo of Terry's clock tower

Local history groups have an important role in documenting social and economic change for the benefit of future generations. See how our research has covered the transformation of the Terry’s site in York @balhnews.bsky.social @yorkfhs.bsky.social www.clementshallhistorygroup.org.uk/blog/the-cho...

Our new blogpost at www.clementshallhistorygroup.org.uk/blog/helen-s... pays tribute to Helen Snelson, a wonderful champion of #HistoryEducation. In her memory we're contributing to the @histassoc.bsky.social Teaching Fellowship Programme to support teaching of Gypsy, Roma and Traveller histories.

Shop front on corner of Butcher Terrace

Bishy Road shops early 20th century

Old shops along Caroline St in York

Hot pie shop on corner of Buckingham St

We'll be at the @yorkfhs.bsky.social event at Acomb Church Hall tomorrow - 28 June - 10am till 3pm. We'll be displaying our books and programme of talks, together with some of our old photos. Do come along and see us. @balhnews.bsky.social

Don't remember that one, but rhe recent summer wedding gear article was unbelievable.

Flori bakery cafe counter with pastries

Easy Street skateboard shop

We've got some new traders on Bishy Road in #York, carrying on a tradition of female independent shopkeepers.
Latest blogpost at www.clementshallhistorygroup.org.uk/blog/new-lif...

Transforming York: Rail’s legacy Join our expert speakers as they look back over 200 remarkable years of rail history and assess its transformative impact on the city of York and the wider region.

I'll be talking at the York Festival of Ideas next Saturday, 7 June 2025, part of a panel focusing on how the railways have transformed York. I'll be showing how events in the 1840s brought mass tourism to York. Details of this free event at yorkfestivalofideas.com/2025/calenda...

Photo of Rowntree Park, with statue in foreground

Our next talk is tomorrow night, Fri 23 May, at Clements Hall York, see www.clementshallhistorygroup.org.uk. Anne Houson features the history of Rowntree Park, gifted to the people of York over 100 years ago. It looks at how the park and our relationship to it has changed over those years.

Our latest blogpost is a taster for our new book about #Micklegate in #York, due out this autumn. The post features the horse tramways which operated in Micklegate between 1882 and 1910
www.clementshallhistorygroup.org.uk/blog/the-mic... @balhnews.bsky.social

Resources In researching the careers of MPs who sat in the Commons between 1832 and 1868, and the electoral histories of the constituencies they represented, we make extensive use of online resources. On thi…

For #Archive30 #ArchiveAdvice here is our Resources page, which contains links to many of the free to access resources we use for our research on 19th century British political history: victoriancommons.wordpress.com/resources/

Discover York's hidden past - right on your doorstep See what's on during Local History Month at Explore York Libraries and Archives in May

Our 19th century poverty project around Nunnery Lane in York features in this #YorkPress report. @balhnews.bsky.social
www.yorkpress.co.uk/news/2508433...

What a wonderful thread!