Geo: 53.9636, -1.08518My first call today was on the York Minster, to see the interior this time. Admission includes a free guided tour, which is quite good because for 10 quid I'd want something a little more than the standard information pamphlet. Our guide was another lovely older lady and the tour was really very good, more churches should do these. However she did mention the Minster had 200 employees and 450 unpaid volunteers. It would not survive without the efforts of the volunteers. The current York Minster is actually its fifth incarnation. The first was a wooden structure, built for the baptism of the King of Northumberland, King Edwin. It was a condition of his marriage that he become a christian, so his wife (who's name I forget) and her chaplain traveled to York so
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