Features
All aboard as canoeing and kayaking take off on the River Foss
8:00am Saturday 24th June 2017
MAXINE GORDON enjoys a duck's-eye view of York as she takes a canoe out on the River Foss
NATURE DIARY: this is the time of year to enjoy wildflower meadows and summer swifts...
10:33am Thursday 22nd June 2017
Summer is the best time of year to enjoy the magic of wildflower meadows, says JONO LEADLEY of the Yorkshire Wildlife Trust
COLUMN: This summer of tensions will require cool heads all around
10:27am Wednesday 21st June 2017
NOW is the winter of our discontent, says Shakespeare’s Richard III, a notable ex-resident of York. I’m not referring to the Bard for historical reasons. Is it just me wondering if summer 2017 is developing into a veritable summer of discontent?
Your chance to meet some 1,800-year-old York residents...
3:14pm Tuesday 20th June 2017
OVER the past few weeks, the bodies of almost 60 people - men, women, and children - have been discovered buried in shallow graves near Knavesmire.
Long-lost Poads, and 6 other great old photos of York
10:32am Monday 19th June 2017
ANYONE who works here at The Press knows about Isaac Poad & Sons. It was a big corn and potato merchant with its head offices and warehouse on Walmgate. The Press is now based in a building that dates from those days, and which is still known colloquially as Poads.
Ripon blows its own horn... and four other old photos
10:48am Monday 19th June 2017
We have photographs from a town, two villages and one very small city near York for you today.
PICTURES PERFECT: People's art gets star billing at York central library
11:30am Friday 16th June 2017
IF you’ve been down to York’s central library in the last few days, you might have wondered whether it has been turned into an art gallery instead.
Romantic ruin? Rievaulx revisited through Victorian eyes...
10:43am Thursday 15th June 2017
A new exhibition opening at Rievaulx Abbey tomorrow uses old photographs to chart the abbey’s conversion from crumbling Victorian ruin to one of the nation’s first state-managed ‘ancient monuments’. STEPHEN LEWIS reports
FOUR DAYS TO LONDON: By coach to the capital on the Great North Road
10:10am Wednesday 14th June 2017
A new book is the definitive guide to the great coaching inns (many in York) which once lined the Great North Road between London and Edinburgh. STEPHEN LEWIS reports
Ready, steady, bake. Our reporter takes part in Marie Curie Bake Off challenge
7:00am Tuesday 13th June 2017
IF you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen. Those were the words running through my mind as I marched out of the Cooks cookery school at Carlton Towers, near Selby, with three cake tins – desperately seeking an oven.
St Sampson's Square in 1890, and other great old photos
11:50am Monday 12th June 2017
BROWNS of York has a prime spot on the corner of Davygate and St Sampson's Square these days - one where it's visible from all the way up Parliament Street. But back in the day this prime location was home to another venerable York business...A.T. Howell, the fruit and potato salesman.
Summertime, when the livin' was easy...6 photos of summers long ago
12:20pm Monday 12th June 2017
For people living in York, the good weather has always drawn them to the riverside and open spaces.
Mystery of York's missing mushroom farm...
12:04pm Monday 12th June 2017
HERE'S a challenge for you. Jean Skilling has been in touch from Chatham in Kent to ask if anyone remembers the York Mushroom Farm - and if so, where it was...
TRAVEL FEATURE: Peter Martini walks amid history, sacred sites and beauty in the Morvan Regional Park, France
6:49am Saturday 10th June 2017
IN the small museum at Saint-Brisson in the heart of Burgundy stands a man (well, a manikin) dressed head to toe in Second World War SAS garb, a rifle slung on his back, a knife strapped to his lower right leg.
Animal magic at York's new zoo
12:04pm Friday 9th June 2017
York has its own miniature zoo, now that the wildlife and conservation park at Askham Bryan College has been officially opened to the public. STEPHEN LEWIS paid a visit
WALKING THE RIVER URE: A land of cheese and old railways
11:12am Thursday 8th June 2017
Retired consultant psychiatrist BOB ADAMS has been walking the length of the River Ure in stages. On day six of his walk, he covers the 10 miles from Aysgarth to Hawes
BRINGING UP BABY: The 11 types of animal parent - new exhibition
10:17am Wednesday 7th June 2017
Yorkshire Wolds wildlife artist Robert Fuller's latest exhibition focusses on the way wild animals bring up their young. He spoke to LARA LAMBERT
CLIFTON and CLIFTON MOOR: 7 old photos
11:40am Monday 5th June 2017
ACCORDING to Barbara Hutton’s book Clifton And Its People In The 19th Century, the name Clifton comes from the 30 foot high cliff, or ‘scope’, beside Clifton Bridge, where the ferry used to cross the river.
BOOK: What might a hungry blackbird chick say to its mum and dad? Anneliese could tell you...
11:06am Monday 5th June 2017
WHAT might a hungry blackbird chick say (assuming it could speak English) when its mum was slow in delivering the next juicy worm?
'Every day has been an adventure'
11:08am Friday 2nd June 2017
It is a week since York's first Green Lord Mayor passed on the baton. Dave Taylor spoke to STEPHEN LEWIS about his year in the Mayoral hotseat
PARK GROVE FIRE REMEMBERED: 'A night burnt into my memory'
1:15pm Thursday 1st June 2017
Twenty years ago, BARRY NEILD was a young reporter for The Press who happened to be on duty when Park Grove School caught fire. He returned to the school recently to meet pupils who had been researching a project on the fire...
Rita Leaman column: "If you pick it, it won’t get better"
10:53am Wednesday 31st May 2017
It was a great gathering, everyone was happy and everything went well. There was a small incident. Did I feel a slight insult? If I did, it was unintentional and easily explained. Nobody said anything and the incident went to the back of my mind while we all continued to enjoy ourselves.
Why roller derby is getting its skates on in York
10:42am Wednesday 31st May 2017
Roller derby is a fast and furious female sport not for the faint-hearted – and growing in popularity in York
Nine-year-old Agatha Meehan from York stars in hit London musical School of Rock
8:00am Tuesday 23rd May 2017
LITTLE Agatha Meehan is living her dream by starring in a hit musical in the West End.
New pottery workshop Bish Bash Pot opens in York for children and adults
8:00am Tuesday 16th May 2017
A new pottery workshop in York offers fun for all ages
York College fashion students parade end-of-year collections
7:30am Tuesday 16th May 2017
Showgirls, suffragettes and an ancient baboon bone are just some of the influences behind this year's fashion collections at York College
DREAMING SPIRES: The charity helping to keep our historic churches standing
2:47pm Monday 15th May 2017
Yorkshire has more churches than any other county in England. But many face closure in the years to come if funds cannot be found to help maintain them. STEPHEN LEWIS finds out about a Yorkshire charity which has been helping struggling churches with vital repairs
Face to face with the Vikings
12:40pm Friday 12th May 2017
A new exhibition opening next week at the Yorkshire Museum aims to show how the Vikings changed Britain - and how Britain changed the Vikings. STEPHEN LEWIS reports
Child's-eye views of York take pride of place at city art gallery
12:21pm Thursday 11th May 2017
New artworks by York schoolchildren have gone on display on the front of York Art Gallery. STEPHEN LEWIS reports
Letting slip the secret of the wonderful Wolds Way
1:16pm Wednesday 10th May 2017
Explorer Paul Rose swapped the snow and ice of Antarctica for the gentle hills of the Yorkshire Wolds while making a two-part documentary for the BBC. He was bowled over by the quiet East Yorkshire landscapes, he tells STEPHEN LEWIS
Cake-smash craze: how babies in York can have their cake and eat it!
7:00am Tuesday 9th May 2017
CAKE smashing is the US import that parents just can't get enough of.
The changing face of Goodramgate
12:02pm Monday 8th May 2017
RECOGNISE this street (above?) It's Goodramgate - but in a photo taken in about 1900, before shops (including one called 'The Little Wonder') had been demolished to make way for deangate.
STREET WITH A VIEW? The start of the Stonebow 'brutality'
11:41am Monday 8th May 2017
THE ongoing work to revamp Stonebow House made us wonder whether we had, in our files, any photos of St Saviourgate from the days before the brutalist block that is a contender for York's least popular building had shut off the view of St Saviour's Church.
MANSION HOUSE UPDATE: "Here's where you could have lived, Lord Mayor!"
4:20pm Friday 5th May 2017
Delays to the restoration of York's historic Mansion House mean serving Lord Mayor Dave Taylor will never get to live there. But at least he got to visit the house to see what progress was being made. STEPHEN LEWIS reports
In Bath with the Romans
12:04pm Sunday 9th April 2017
Mike Laycock follows in the footsteps of Jane Austen – and enjoys the spa waters like any good Roman – during a weekend break in Bath
York jeweller Jo Bagshaw to take part in Fashion City York and Open Studios
5:35pm Wednesday 5th April 2017
Jo Bagshaw went to jewellery college as a mature student and has never looked back
Checking in for a luxury spa break at Ragdale Hall
5:28pm Wednesday 5th April 2017
IT’S 10am on a Thursday morning and I’m in the pool dancing to the Jacksons’ Blame It On The Boogie.
REVIEW: Devon Sproule, Basement City Screen, York, Thursday
5:00pm Sunday 2nd April 2017
A REGULAR and welcome guest, Devon Sproule is one of the most consistently imaginative, lyrical and adventurous singer songwriters currently recording.
Behind the scenes at Victoria's Yorkshire palace
10:32am Friday 31st March 2017
Filming on a second series of TV drama Victoria has been taking place at Harewood House. Emma Clayton looks at a major exhibition exploring Queen Victoria’s links to the Yorkshire stately home
Events venue under goes a re-brand with new name
5:00am Thursday 30th March 2017
A NORTH Yorkshire events venue has announced a new name.
REVIEW: Evita, Grand Opera House, York
12:45pm Wednesday 29th March 2017
It was a full house to welcome the 2017 tour of Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Evita to the Grand Opera House in York.
Travel: Great Lakes
10:21am Wednesday 15th March 2017
Kate Liptrot enjoys a room with a view in the Lake District
There's iron in them thar hills: the great Moors iron rush of the 1850s remembered
5:10pm Thursday 9th March 2017
ON August 26, 1854, the Gateshead Observer reported an important find up on the North York Moors.
Charity chic in the spotlight at Fashion City York as style blogger Caroline Jones hosts event at Grand Hotel
9:57am Thursday 9th March 2017
WHEN Caroline Jones lost her mother to cancer she set about raising money for charity. But instead of running a marathon or conquering a mountain, fashion-loving Caroline decided to wear a different outfit from Cancer Research UK charity shops every day for a year.
20 photos: Clifton events of the 80s & 90s
6:35pm Tuesday 7th March 2017
Join us for a trip down memory lane
Beasts, dragons, heaven and hell: a close-up look at York Minster's stunning stained glass
11:54am Wednesday 8th March 2017
YORK Minster’s stained glass windows are a wonder – a celebration in light and glowing colour of our longing to find something greater than ourselves in which to believe.
Meet the York mummy blogger with a difference
5:00am Tuesday 7th March 2017
A YORK mum is making a name for herself as a mummy blogger with a difference, by writing about parenting while living with chronic illness.
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Columnists
COLUMN: I'm foxed by the Facebook foot fetish
10:49am Thursday 22nd June 2017
RECENTLY, my husband and I had a short break in a lovely hotel. I took a few photographs during our two-night stay, but I completely forgot to take a close-up snap of our bare feet.
COLUMN: Harry Potter? Who's that?
11:06am Thursday 15th June 2017
TV viewers were left ‘shaken’ after Mary Berry confessed that she had never ordered a takeaway pizza. Twitter went crazy when the 81-year-old made the admission on her cookery programme.
Readers' letters
The Tories are a busted flush (letter)
7:00am Saturday 24th June 2017
LINDA WALKER’S letter (The Press, June 21) brings to mind the old adage “listen at the kettle calling the pot grimy”.
It’s time we adopted a proper work ethic (letter)
7:10am Saturday 24th June 2017
THURSDAY’S leading business story on the BBC discussed fruit and veg farmers facing a shortage of labour.
No surprise York's Bootham Park Hospital site was overlooked (letter)
7:20am Saturday 24th June 2017
IT was with disappointment but not surprise that the decision of the board of directors of TEWV was to discount the vote of the people of York to retain Bootham Park Hospital.
Let the people take over verge cutting in Osbaldwick (letter)
7:40am Saturday 24th June 2017
AS ward councillor and on behalf of Osbaldwick Parish Council, I would like to apologise for the disgraceful state of the verges in Osbaldwick which haven’t been cut by City of York Council for many weeks now.
History
9,200 old Press photos: Where to find what you're looking for
4:29pm Tuesday 31st January 2017
Looking for an old photo from our archive? Let us help you...
74 old Press photos in & around Acomb (1900-1999)
4:10pm Friday 15th May 2015
Take a trip down memory lane in Acomb....
45 photos of York in the 1940s (more added today)
9:20am Sunday 2nd October 2016
Including some photos never before seen online
Health & Wellbeing
Rita Leaman column: "If you pick it, it won’t get better"
10:53am Wednesday 31st May 2017
It was a great gathering, everyone was happy and everything went well. There was a small incident. Did I feel a slight insult? If I did, it was unintentional and easily explained. Nobody said anything and the incident went to the back of my mind while we all continued to enjoy ourselves.
Mind, body and soul: Baked eggs with spinach and ham
5:00am Tuesday 23rd May 2017
Not only is this recipe bang on season with fresh spinach and British asparagus, it’s one of those dishes that make an equally good brunch as late night supper.
Mind, body and soul: good mood food
5:00am Tuesday 16th May 2017
Last week was Mental Health Awareness Week, with events all over the UK engaging people to talk about their mental health struggles.