YOU'LL recognise the familiar shape of All Saints Church in our first photograph today. But what about that odd-looking row of shops on the left of the picture, where the entrance to Piccadilly is now?

These buildings - among them Melia's tea stores, Braime's brewery and, just visible, Isaac Poad & Sons - were demolished when Piccadilly was extended to link up with Pavement in 1911.

We have carried other photographs of this row of buildings in The Press before. But this is the first time we've seen this particular photograph, showing the whole unbroken length of Pavement running up to All Saints.

The photograph comes from the collection of the Yorkshire Architectural and York Archaeological Society (YAYAS) - as do the other images on these pages today.

These include two pictures of Jubbergate - a close-up taken in 1894 showing a group of people standing outside A Wells the broker, and a wider view dating from 1920. The remarkable thing about these photographs is that they demonstrate how while the architecture is almost unchanged today, the look and feel of this part of York is still somehow utterly different.

Another street that looks very different today is Goodramgate. Many of the buildings on the left of the 1893 postcard from the YAYAS collection were demolished to allow for the creation of Deangate in 1902. The building which once housed grocer and tea dealer J Todd survived, however - it is where the National Trust gift shop is based today.

Despite decades of being bumped into by lorries and vans, Walmgate Bar is comparatively little changed from1908, when the postcard photograph on these pages was taken. Again, however, the feel of the bar is utterly different. Today, the outer side of the bar is virtually a no-go area for anyone on foot because of the constant traffic snarling past. Back in 1908, however, it was clearly a feature that people liked to sit or lean against to enjoy a bit of fresh air and a chat with friends.

A postcard showing Tower Street and the top end of Fishergate in the same year (1908) shows that much has changed today. The same is true of the Red Tower. This postcard is labelled simply 'Pumphery, 1853'. Despite the spelling of the name, we assume this means the photograph was taken by William Pumphrey, a Quaker and former Bootham School science teacher who was one of the first people to take photographs in York. His rather murky view of the Red Tower shows just how run down it was in the 1850s.

Stephen Lewis

The Yorkshire Architectural and York Archaeological Society (YAYAS) has been promoting and protecting the history, heritage and architecture of York and Yorkshire since 1842. You can find out more about the organisation by visiting www.yayas.org.uk