We are talking about Clifford’s Tower, which has played a major part in the history of York for nearly a thousand years.

It turns out it was called Ingram Hospital and is one of York’s most important mid-seventeenth century buildings.

York Unlocked 2023 on the weekend of 7 and 8 October 2023 will see the doors thrown open to around 70 fabulous buildings FREE of charge....

You would think that Northern Europe’s largest Gothic cathedral and England’s second most important religious building would be home to a...

York Minster is unique in the fact that it holds over 60% of all the medieval stained glass in England and the largest collection of...

Guest blogger Sean O'Connor takes us through some of his favourite breakfast spots in York... Enjoying a scrumptious breakfast is the...

One of the strangest of York Minster’s many statues, monuments and carvings is that of the Doomstone. Sitting in the Crypt below the High...

This historic town house with award winning garden in the centre of York has many tales to tell…. But before we start the tale of the...

Running driver guiding business, most of my client pick-ups are in York. I must drive past this mural of a bright green beetle, three or...

I regularly pass the little round tower known as Barker Tower just to the edge of Lendal Bridge in York whilst taking clients out on...

Hidden away behind York’s library and just outside Museum Gardens is a real historical treasure which I discovered thanks to the author...

Having arrived back in Yorkshire after a week’s holiday in Northumberland, we still had a Friday off. To end our break in style I had...

With lockdown restrictions starting to ease, I have been lucky over the past week, to have completed 3 virtual tours of York for US...

Last year, I was contacted by a property company who had just completed part of a new development of apartments in the Hungate area of...

The popular BBC TV series Gentleman Jack has just been re-commissioned for a series 2 which is sadly on hold during to the Corona Virus...

Being so close to the Minster – St Michael le Belfrey on High Petergate in York often gets overlooked, but it has a wonderful history in...