Shaping the future through open conversations
13th July 2019 As part of the summer Gathering Place discussions, we’ve planned five Look at Your City walks. The walks use what we can see already in York as a resource for thinking creatively about the new public spaces in the Castle and Eye of York. Ten of use explore Parliament Stree, St Helen’s … Read more
This blog was first published as part of the launch the Gathering Place summer programme builds. It has been updated in May 2020 in order to act as a reference point within the Open Brief for the heritage challenges. Navigating layers of history A repeated comment in all of the My Castle Gateway discuss has … Read more
You’ve read about the pretty incredible things that happened in the Castle Gateway area, here are the big heritage ideas to take forward into our discussions about what the area means and what makes it matter. Read the final blog in this series to explore what questions this raised for the Gathering Place discussions about … Read more
Whether it is Romans, Vikings, Normans, the Dissolution of the Monasteries, 19th century judicial authority and political resistance or the rise of the car, tourism and shopping in the 20th Century, the Castle Gateway area opens up ‘little bit of everything of York’s archaeology and urban history’, as John Oxley, York’s City Archaeologist, puts it. … Read more
A place to gather: for events, to protest, to spend time A gathering of layers of history: making sense of castles, elections, prisons, courts and protests A gathering of ideas: of what we want the area to be like in the future Gathering Place is a strand of the My Castle Gateway project. Through a … Read more
Gathering Place: Castle and the Eye of York Area Launch Weekend with My Castle Gateway – 6th and 7th July Walks and Workshop Meet outside the Castle Museum entrance Saturday 10am [Book Your Place] / Saturday 11.30am [Book Your Place] / Saturday 1pm Accessible walk, flat access only and pace set by group [Book Your … Read more