Showing posts with label York. Show all posts
Showing posts with label York. Show all posts

Friday, 5 November 2010

Guy Fawkes


Hereabouts lived the parents of Guy Fawkes of Gunpowder Plot fame, who was baptised in St. Michael-le-Belfrey Church in 1570.

Fawkes was arrested in the early hours of 5th November 1605 after being discovered keeping watch over 36 barrels of gunpowder in the cellars beneath the House of Lords.

Friday, 24 September 2010

Emperor Constantine

Emperor Constantine, York

A statue of the Roman Emperor Constantine the Great sit outside York Minster with a broken sword. The inscription reads Constantine by this sign conquer.

Monday, 20 September 2010

Bile Beans

Sign: Bile Beans

Nightly Bile Beans keep you healthy, bright-eyed and slim.

A sign painted on a wall in York for a business that has long since disappeared, also known as a ghost sign!
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