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Published: February 22nd 2008
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Clifford Tower (York Castle)
The first few are pictures taken of and from the tower Hiya Everyone
Sorry we haven't written for a few days, but, well, we're on holidays 😉
On Monday we went to York for the day and had a wonderful time. We were advised to park at the Park & Ride and get the bus into town, but we figured it couldn't get that busy in winter so we took the chance and drove all the way..... lucky penny from Ripon came good and we got a car park no worries! (Mark can't remember if he told you all about the lucky penny or not, if not let us know and we will tell you)
We went to the Castle first. It's actually called (searching for the name.........) Clifford's Tower and it's built on the top of a man made mound (try saying that 3 times quickly after 4 pints). It was another one you could climb to the top of and we got some great pictures of the surrounding city. It was built in the 1100's and had been rebuilt 3 times.
After that we went to the Jorvik Centre, which is a recreation of a small Viking village. In the 1980's the received permission to do
an archeaological dig in York that was supposed to last for 6 months. It ended lasting just under 6 years and they found the site of a Viking village. The have recreated it in the building based on the things they found. It is so good. It's like going to the fair and having a ride. You sit in this car that hangs from railings. It takes you round this village and gives you a commentary as you go through. You are warned before you go in that they have recreated the smells as well so some of them are not very pleasant. Let me tell you, if the French lady in the seat in front of us stopped dry retching and started heaving for real I would of gone out in sympathy!! It really wasn't that bad though........ the French hey.... LOL The whole thing was wonderful and fascinating, to look at the stuff they found, including full skeletons.
Next we went to a street called The Shambles. It dates back to the medieval times and was great to see again. In "The Olden Days" a Gentleman would walk on the outside of the footpath so that when
people chucked out their night time waste (from the pots under the beds) it wouldn't splash onto the Lady. The usually yelled out before they threw it out so if you was real quick you didn't cop it. Yuck! The street was really narrow and the buildings on either side almost touched at the top.
We then walked to the Merchant Adventurers Hall. This building was built in the 1600's by the Merchants in York and is still owned by them today. A few additions have been done over the years and a few restorations, but it is, for the most part as it was when built.
We walked back to the castle and went into the castle museum. We didn't get many pictures from in there because the lighting is so dim to help keep the things in good condition. But we did get a book so we might be able to scan some of them when we get home. It was a great place to walk round and most of the exhibits were fascinating. They have set up a whole street to look like it did in the 1700's. We really didn't have enough time to
spend in there because we had to get back to the car before the parking metre ran out. We had planned on going back to York to see all the things we didn't have time to see but we won't have time. So much to do and so little time......... next time!!
Hope you all are enjoying it nearly as much as we are ( well as much as you can from a computer I guess)
Love to all....
Jules and Mark
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