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Clifford's Tower in the middle of York city |
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The tower of the castle of York. The castle had been dismantled but this tower remains. Built circa 1100 A.D. |
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The itinerary of our trip, just in case we forgot what we came here for. |
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The inner walls of the Clifford's Tower. And also me. |
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Someone's cute doggie in the medieval shopping streets of York. I want one of those! |
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Stonegate, a medieval shopping street in York |
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The parents of the guy who tried to blow up the parliament lived here, so it says. |
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The majestic York Minster! Built 1472 AD (Completion) |
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York Minster - The largest Gothic Cathedral in the Northern Europe |
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York Minster - Part of the Western face |
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Interior of the York Minster |
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Stained glass in the minster - some date back to the 12th century! |
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Stained glass in the minster - there are 2 million individual pieces of glass that make up 128 stained-glass windows. |
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Just look at the sheer size of those windows! Bill Gates would have been impressed. |
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Exterior of the York Minster. Built in the 15th century. |
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It's this way....er..no.. that way! |
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The minster as seen from the front |
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The future is bright, yes? |
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"You! You look scared already!" The ghost hunter scares a poor bloke who joined in the ghost hunt |
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"Should we hold hands and try to contact the living? Some of you look dead already! And the ghost hunt is yet to begin!" |
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"This house is haunted", explains Ian Addyman, our guide on the ghost hunt. |
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It appears that hundreds of years ago, a young girl fell from her bedroom window 2 storeys up, and her ghost still haunts the house. Crickey! |
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"The cellar of this house is where the Roman soldiers appeared on horseback, straight out of a brick wall". |
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Perhaps they were still on hot pursuit of Asterix and Obelix? |
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Clifford's Tower at night |
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York City Walls - built 12-14th century |
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York City Walls are built around the city and are a few miles in length. |
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Another section of the York City Walls - originally built by Romans in 71 AD and restored by Danes in 12-14th centuries. |
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View from the top of the walls |
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Ruins of St. Mary's Abbey in the Yorkshire Museum Gardens |
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The abbey dates back to circa 1086 AD. |
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Ruins of St mary's Abbey, Yorskhire Museum Gardens |
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Tee hee. It's us. Also the ruins of St. Mary's Abbey. |
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Gothic Archs of St. Mary's Abbey |
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Someone's sarcophagus they have managed to dig up! Tomb raiders! |
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An original viking boat dug up in York. |
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"Welcome to the dark side, my son. We've been waiting for you" |
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A figure in the Yorkshire Museum |
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Rare fossils of a croc dug up in York. About 15 feet from head to tail and nicely preserved. Steve Irwin would have been proud. |
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One of the oldest, oldest objects you could ever find in the whole of the universe: a piece of a 4.55 billion year old meteorite! |
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Age confirmed by Carbon dating. |
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The big daddy of modern trains - George Stephenson |
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National Railway Museum, the world's largest rail museum, in York. |
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A British Rail Class 41 locomotive, now retired and on display at the National Railway Museum, York |
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A blast from the past. Also, Thilini. |
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A selection of golden oldies on display |
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The workshop - National Railway Museum |
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What the..? A peculiar sign from a rail carriage from Jurassic times |
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Inside "Shinkansen" the Japanese bullet train on display |
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Shinkansen - the bullet train from Japan |
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Boat, boats and more boats |
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York City Wall, another view closer to the station |
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Flower beds near the City Walls |
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The Humber Bridge, near Hull. |
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This is the fourth longest suspension bridge in the world. One and a quarter miles in length. |
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Humber Bridge joins Yorkshire and Lincolnshire (Seen in the distance) |
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Humber Bridge - completed 1981 |
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The end of another trip. Also a nice place to end it. |
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Still driving..... are we there yet? |
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Picturesque landscape, Linconshire |
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Landscape in Lincolnshire |
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Rapeseed field, Lincolnshire |
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