Museum Street
Introduction
The photograph on this page of Museum Street by Alan Walker as part of the Geograph project.
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Museum Street
Image: © Alan Walker Taken: Unknown
The photograph shows the eastern end of Museum Street looking toward Duncombe Place (beyond the traffic light) and York Minster. The junction on the left leads to the York Central Library and the building on the right is Thomas's, a Public House. Behind the viewpoint is the entrance to the botanical gardens in the grounds of Image When this photograph was taken (1974) Museum Street was part of the A64 Leeds to Scarborough trunk road through York. The route toward Scarborough followed ahead through Duncombe Place and thence into Deangate by the southern side of the Minster. - - - See also these photographs by: Stanley Howe: Image (2007), Terry Joyce: Image (2008), Gordon Hatton: Image (2009), David Dixon: Image (2010). - - - Web pages of interest: History of York: http://www.historyofyork.org.uk/themes/20th-century/york-central-library York Library Service: http://www.york.gov.uk/libraries/ visityork.org: http://www.visityork.org/information/thedms-VIC.aspx?dms=13&venue=1504723 - - - This photograph is from a scanned 35mm slide taken during the summer of 1974.
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Image Location
Latitude
53.961161
Longitude
-1.085675