EAW002152 ENGLAND (1946). The city, York, from the west, 1946

York County Hygienic Laundry (c1901-1953)

Speculated location of WW2 HAA gun battery, designation H2/-.

Advertising hoarding on bombsite

WW2 Air Raid Shelter

WW2 Camouflage Scheme

Derwent valley railway Murton station

Derwent valley railwa Osbaldwick station

Derwent valley railway Layerthorpe station

Leetham's Mill now Rowntree Wharf a mixed use Office and Residential building

This snapshot is today on public display for the first time in 75 years. Station Road and City Walls York, June or July 1939

Klonne Gas-holder built in the 1920s

York Gas Works

First York railway station. Became offices and stores with the track work used for stock storage.

Bootham Bar

Cooling tower

York Minster

York Minster

Stockton Lane

Malton Rd A64

Huntington Rd

St Thomas's Church, Osbaldwick

Burnholme, built 1880s by W G Penty for John Bellerby. Later Burnholme WMC/Burnholme Social Club. Grounds behind the house used as a speedway track 1930-31: http://www.defunctspeedway.co.uk/York%20Speedway.htm - later used for housing, as shown. Half of Burnholme Ave built when this photograph was taken. The building is to be demolished: http://www.yorkpress.co.uk/news/10602557.Burnholme_Social_Club_building_to_be_demolished/ http://www.yorkstories.co.uk/blog/tag/burnholme/

Power station chimney, Foss Islands (Morrison's chimney) with camouflage paint from WW2

Understand there was an air-raid shelter or other WW2 structure here, dug into the bank, presumably these are connected with it?

Salem Chapel, 1839, by J P Pritchett. Demolished. 1960s office block (Hilary House) replaced it. http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=126078

St Martin, Coney St, showing damage from bombing of 29 April 1942

Guildhall without its roof, after bombing of April 1942

York to Scarborough railway line

RCAF hostel built during WW2. Demolished in 2011. See http://www.yorkstories.co.uk/war/ww2/ww2_service_hostel_1940s_photos.htm for photos of interior in 1940s