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Accepted – an image which adds useful information about a square but which does not meet the requirements of a geograph; this includes close-ups, interiors, aerial shots, photos taken from outside the grid square, moveable objects that can't be shown on maps and silhouetted images; [2] this category has subcategories 'Close Look', 'Inside ...
On December 31, 1907, a ball signifying New Year's Day was first dropped at Times Square, [161] and the Square has held the main New Year's celebration in New York City ever since. On that night, hundreds of thousands of people congregate to watch the Waterford Crystal ball being lowered on a pole atop the building, marking the start of the new ...
In June 2015, York CAMRA listed 101 pubs on its map of the city centre, some of which are hundreds of years old. [225] These include the Golden Fleece , Ye Olde Starre Inne , noted for its sign which has spanned the street since 1733, [ 226 ] and The Kings Arms , often photographed during floods. [ 227 ]
The square absorbed the northern part of Colliergate and the whole of the street of King's Court, although those street names are retained by the properties on the extended section of the square. Some Mediaeval buildings on King's Court were demolished as late as the 1950s. [4] [6] In 2013, the City of York Council spent £490,000 renovating ...
The individual areas of the City of York are all within the Unitary Authority area as defined by the Fifth Periodical Report, Volume 4, "Mapping for the Non-Metropolitan Counties and the Unitary Authorities as published by the Boundary Commission For England", specifically on pages 106–109. [7]
New satellite imagery released by Maxar Technologies on Thursday, April 14, shows the South African city of Durban before and after it was inundated by fatal flooding.Local news outlets reported ...
Yorkshire: York and the East Riding (2nd ed.). London: Penguin Books. ISBN 978-0-14-071061-8. Wilson, Barbara; Mee, Frances (2005). The City Walls and Castles of York: The Pictorial Evidence. York Archaeological Trust. ISBN 978-1-874454-36-6. Walking the Walls: An easy stage by stage guide to York's medieval walls. Huntington, York: Village. 1985.
The following is a list of historic maps of York: c.1610: John Speed's map [1] 1624: Samuel Parsons' map of Dringhouses [2] c1682: Captain James Archer's Plan of the Greate, Antient & Famous Citty of York [3] 1685: Jacob Richards' Survey of the City of York [4] 1694: Benedict Horsley's Iconography or Ground Plot of ye City of Yorke [1]