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		<title>Summer solstice wanderings</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>Late in the day on this year&#8217;s summer solstice we wandered into town, heading for Scarcroft allotments, through which there&#8217;s a path/<a href="http://collective.yorkstories.co.uk/about-the-snicketpoems/">snicket</a>, which is one of the reasons we were  … <a class="continue-reading-link" href="http://collective.yorkstories.co.uk/summer-solstice-psychogeographic-wanderings/">More ... <span class="meta-nav">&#8594; </span></a></p>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Late in the day on this year&#8217;s summer solstice we wandered into town, heading for Scarcroft allotments, through which there&#8217;s a path/<a href="http://collective.yorkstories.co.uk/about-the-snicketpoems/">snicket</a>, which is one of the reasons we were heading there, but also just to have a wander. Here&#8217;s a few of the interesting buildings, objects and random things we got distracted by on the way. We ended up passing over and under the railway lines, at Dicky Bridge and the <a href="http://collective.yorkstories.co.uk/a-walk-through-the-marble-arch-tunnel/">Leeman Road &#8216;Marble Arch&#8217;</a>.</p>
<div id="attachment_144" style="width: 910px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="http://collective.yorkstories.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/summer-solstice-psychogeographic-wanderings-210615-01.jpg" rel="lightbox[169]"><img class="size-full wp-image-144" src="http://collective.yorkstories.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/summer-solstice-psychogeographic-wanderings-210615-01.jpg" alt="Envelope found on the pavement, addressed to 'Dad'" width="900" height="675" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Envelope found on the pavement by the river reminded us that it was &#8216;Father&#8217;s Day&#8217;. If Dad deliberately tossed this envelope onto the floor he wasn&#8217;t setting a very good example, was he.</p></div>
<div id="attachment_145" style="width: 910px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="http://collective.yorkstories.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/summer-solstice-psychogeographic-wanderings-210615-02.jpg" rel="lightbox[169]"><img class="size-full wp-image-145" src="http://collective.yorkstories.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/summer-solstice-psychogeographic-wanderings-210615-02.jpg" alt="Information on Anglian York" width="900" height="675" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">On the riverside railings, interesting information on Anglian York, and a fearsome-looking fish</p></div>
<div id="attachment_146" style="width: 910px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="http://collective.yorkstories.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/summer-solstice-psychogeographic-wanderings-210615-03.jpg" rel="lightbox[169]"><img class="size-full wp-image-146" src="http://collective.yorkstories.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/summer-solstice-psychogeographic-wanderings-210615-03.jpg" alt="Litter bin, with graffiti tag" width="900" height="675" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Increasingly rare sighting &#8211; a litter bin. Where that Dad should have disposed of his envelope.<br /> And &#8216;Layer&#8217; again — apparently York&#8217;s most active graffiti tagger.</p></div>
<div id="attachment_147" style="width: 910px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="http://collective.yorkstories.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/summer-solstice-psychogeographic-wanderings-210615-04.jpg" rel="lightbox[169]"><img class="size-full wp-image-147" src="http://collective.yorkstories.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/summer-solstice-psychogeographic-wanderings-210615-04.jpg" alt="And round the corner, the picturesque layers of Lendal Tower" width="900" height="675" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">&#8230; And round the corner, the picturesque layers of Lendal Tower.</p></div>
<div id="attachment_148" style="width: 910px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="http://collective.yorkstories.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/summer-solstice-psychogeographic-wanderings-210615-05.jpg" rel="lightbox[169]"><img class="size-full wp-image-148" src="http://collective.yorkstories.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/summer-solstice-psychogeographic-wanderings-210615-05.jpg" alt="Old roof, conical shape, with lichen" width="900" height="675" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">On the opposite bank, the interesting roof of Barker Tower, with bright lichen.</p></div>
<div id="attachment_149" style="width: 685px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="http://collective.yorkstories.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/summer-solstice-psychogeographic-wanderings-210615-06.jpg" rel="lightbox[169]"><img class="size-full wp-image-149" src="http://collective.yorkstories.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/summer-solstice-psychogeographic-wanderings-210615-06.jpg" alt="Alleygated opening" width="675" height="900" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Dear old All Saints Lane &#8230; once a delightful short cut-through, now just another gated place.</p></div>
<div id="attachment_150" style="width: 910px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="http://collective.yorkstories.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/summer-solstice-psychogeographic-wanderings-210615-07.jpg" rel="lightbox[169]"><img class="size-full wp-image-150" src="http://collective.yorkstories.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/summer-solstice-psychogeographic-wanderings-210615-07.jpg" alt="Old pub building with bright plastic sign reading 'Flares'" width="900" height="675" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">&#8216;Flares&#8217;, on Tanner Row. We spent a long time trying to remember what it used to be called, years ago.</p></div>
<div id="attachment_151" style="width: 910px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="http://collective.yorkstories.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/summer-solstice-psychogeographic-wanderings-210615-08.jpg" rel="lightbox[169]"><img class="size-full wp-image-151" src="http://collective.yorkstories.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/summer-solstice-psychogeographic-wanderings-210615-08.jpg" alt="Large model of a cow" width="900" height="675" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Moooo. Unexpected cattle, in a passageway on North Street</p></div>
<div id="attachment_152" style="width: 910px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="http://collective.yorkstories.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/summer-solstice-psychogeographic-wanderings-210615-09.jpg" rel="lightbox[169]"><img class="size-full wp-image-152" src="http://collective.yorkstories.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/summer-solstice-psychogeographic-wanderings-210615-09.jpg" alt="Tiled step in black and white, with the name 'Cross' in the centre." width="900" height="675" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Tiled doorway on Micklegate. Was this Cross the fishmonger? Or a different Cross? It&#8217;s not a fishmonger&#8217;s now, anyway.</p></div>
<div id="attachment_153" style="width: 910px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="http://collective.yorkstories.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/summer-solstice-psychogeographic-wanderings-210615-10.jpg" rel="lightbox[169]"><img class="size-full wp-image-153" src="http://collective.yorkstories.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/summer-solstice-psychogeographic-wanderings-210615-10.jpg" alt="Dark street with bright sun visible on tall church spire in the distance" width="900" height="675" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">On what&#8217;s generally a disappointingly gloomy solstice evening, a dramatic and late burst of sunlight</p></div>
<div id="attachment_154" style="width: 910px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="http://collective.yorkstories.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/summer-solstice-psychogeographic-wanderings-210615-11.jpg" rel="lightbox[169]"><img class="size-full wp-image-154" src="http://collective.yorkstories.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/summer-solstice-psychogeographic-wanderings-210615-11.jpg" alt="Hardware shop, window display" width="900" height="675" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">New hardware shop on Micklegate: Granville&#8217;s of York</p></div>
<div id="attachment_168" style="width: 910px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="http://collective.yorkstories.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/summer-solstice-psychogeographic-wanderings-210615-12.jpg" rel="lightbox[169]"><img class="size-full wp-image-168" src="http://collective.yorkstories.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/summer-solstice-psychogeographic-wanderings-210615-12.jpg" alt="Terrace of large buildings, two have cleaned brickwork, centre one doesn't" width="900" height="675" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Cleaned-up frontages on the slowly gentrifying Micklegate, and a grubbier neighbour</p></div>
<div id="attachment_155" style="width: 910px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="http://collective.yorkstories.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/summer-solstice-psychogeographic-wanderings-210615-13.jpg" rel="lightbox[169]"><img class="size-full wp-image-155" src="http://collective.yorkstories.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/summer-solstice-psychogeographic-wanderings-210615-13.jpg" alt="Sunlight hitting the top of one of the city's gateways" width="900" height="675" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">And that same late sunlight catches and illuminates one side of Micklegate Bar</p></div>
<div id="attachment_156" style="width: 910px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="http://collective.yorkstories.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/summer-solstice-psychogeographic-wanderings-210615-14.jpg" rel="lightbox[169]"><img class="size-full wp-image-156" src="http://collective.yorkstories.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/summer-solstice-psychogeographic-wanderings-210615-14.jpg" alt="Sign for Pirory Garage" width="900" height="675" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">So few garages in the city centre now, where once they were many. A surprisingly central one, on Priory St</p></div>
<div id="attachment_157" style="width: 910px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="http://collective.yorkstories.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/summer-solstice-psychogeographic-wanderings-210615-15.jpg" rel="lightbox[169]"><img class="size-full wp-image-157" src="http://collective.yorkstories.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/summer-solstice-psychogeographic-wanderings-210615-15.jpg" alt="Folding chair, apparently abandoned" width="900" height="675" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Sad and lonely chair in a small seating area on Nunnery Lane</p></div>
<div id="attachment_158" style="width: 910px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="http://collective.yorkstories.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/summer-solstice-psychogeographic-wanderings-210615-16.jpg" rel="lightbox[169]"><img class="size-full wp-image-158" src="http://collective.yorkstories.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/summer-solstice-psychogeographic-wanderings-210615-16.jpg" alt="Victorian school building" width="900" height="675" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Splendid Scarcroft School, looming out of the gathering gloom</p></div>
<div id="attachment_159" style="width: 910px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="http://collective.yorkstories.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/summer-solstice-psychogeographic-wanderings-210615-17.jpg" rel="lightbox[169]"><img class="size-full wp-image-159" src="http://collective.yorkstories.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/summer-solstice-psychogeographic-wanderings-210615-17.jpg" alt="Cat, in street" width="900" height="675" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">On Albermarle Road, always good to meet a local cat &#8230;</p></div>
<div id="attachment_160" style="width: 910px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="http://collective.yorkstories.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/summer-solstice-psychogeographic-wanderings-210615-18.jpg" rel="lightbox[169]"><img class="size-full wp-image-160" src="http://collective.yorkstories.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/summer-solstice-psychogeographic-wanderings-210615-18.jpg" alt="Another cat in the street" width="900" height="675" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">&#8230; which was in the middle of a bit of a stand-off with this other cat, both hanging about near the allotments &#8230;</p></div>
<div id="attachment_161" style="width: 910px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="http://collective.yorkstories.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/summer-solstice-psychogeographic-wanderings-210615-19.jpg" rel="lightbox[169]"><img class="size-full wp-image-161" src="http://collective.yorkstories.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/summer-solstice-psychogeographic-wanderings-210615-19.jpg" alt="Lovely rusty bit of old metal, sign saying 'SV 21'" width="900" height="675" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">&#8230; this one perhaps wanted to guide us to this lovely rusty bit of old metal &#8230;</p></div>
<div id="attachment_162" style="width: 910px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="http://collective.yorkstories.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/summer-solstice-psychogeographic-wanderings-210615-20.jpg" rel="lightbox[169]"><img class="size-full wp-image-162" src="http://collective.yorkstories.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/summer-solstice-psychogeographic-wanderings-210615-20.jpg" alt="Discarded 'L' plate sign, the type worn by hen parties" width="900" height="675" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Behind a wall, in the grounds of All Saints School, a hen party remnant</p></div>
<div id="attachment_163" style="width: 910px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="http://collective.yorkstories.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/summer-solstice-psychogeographic-wanderings-210615-21.jpg" rel="lightbox[169]"><img class="size-full wp-image-163" src="http://collective.yorkstories.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/summer-solstice-psychogeographic-wanderings-210615-21.jpg" alt="Graffiti, on bridge" width="900" height="675" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Heading back, over Dicky Bridge in Holgate, which has always and forever been decorated with graffiti, over and over</p></div>
<div id="attachment_164" style="width: 910px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="http://collective.yorkstories.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/summer-solstice-psychogeographic-wanderings-210615-22.jpg" rel="lightbox[169]"><img class="size-full wp-image-164" src="http://collective.yorkstories.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/summer-solstice-psychogeographic-wanderings-210615-22.jpg" alt="Railway lines" width="900" height="675" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Dusk falls over the east coast main line, heading south</p></div>
<div id="attachment_166" style="width: 910px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="http://collective.yorkstories.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/summer-solstice-psychogeographic-wanderings-210615-24.jpg" rel="lightbox[169]"><img class="size-full wp-image-166" src="http://collective.yorkstories.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/summer-solstice-psychogeographic-wanderings-210615-24.jpg" alt="Interior of white-tiled pedestrian tunnel" width="900" height="675" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">And we pass under the lines heading north, while a train rumbles overhead.</p></div>
<div id="attachment_167" style="width: 910px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="http://collective.yorkstories.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/summer-solstice-psychogeographic-wanderings-210615-25.jpg" rel="lightbox[169]"><img class="size-full wp-image-167" src="http://collective.yorkstories.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/summer-solstice-psychogeographic-wanderings-210615-25.jpg" alt="Looking into a brightly-lit white-tiled pedestrian tunnel" width="900" height="675" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">And emerge from the tunnel into the darkening night of the longest day.</p></div>
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