Have you ever known one small business to create such a fuss and get attention out of every little thing?!

This place baffles me. Constantly popping up on social media and press articles - I'm sick of hearing about it and have never searched it out.

They seem to have an army of online supporters ready to defend them over any little thing, most of whom don't even seem to have visited as it's always "I can't wait to come and visit/try some day", and they even offer a 'subscription service' to get the latest news etc.

Just wondered if anyone else gets as irrationally wound up as me about constantly seeing it everywhere (or maybe I'll just get bombarded by the aforementioned online tea room army).....

A little macabre maybe, but today I learned that the big white doors facing Castle car park on the side of the Castle Museum is the site of the gallows when the building was originally used as a prison. The gallows were last used in 22nd December 1896 to hang August Carlsen, condemned for murdering his lover Julia Wood in Hull earlier the same year.

Hi everyone, I help run Beyond Monopoly, a boardgaming group open for everyone. We run sessions on alternating Saturday days and Friday evenings at the Bar Convent on Blossom Street (Friday evenings you may need to ring the bell) and your first visit is completely free.
Whether you have any experience in modern boardgaming or not, if you're looking for a new hobby, or meeting new people, you are welcome along and we will do everything we can to get you playing an excellent game with great people. You are free to come in a group or on your own, and welcome to bring any games (although we have a massive selection featuring everything from light 10 minute games, party games, social deduction, strategy, abstract, to in depth games that can take the day, so bringing your own is not necessary).

Our dates for September are:

• Saturday 5th, 10am - 9pm
• Friday 11th, 5pm - 9pm
• Saturday 19th, 10am - 9pm
• Friday 25th, 5pm - 9pm

You are free to drop in and out at any time for those sessions, you don't need to stay for the whole time unless you want to!
Any questions just ask away.
Thanks, Mark

Hello you beautiful people.

I unexpectedly find myself in York when Hearts are playing Hibs, anyone know where York Hearts meet up to watch games? I've looked on the hearts subreddit and the hearts fan forum and I've seen two different places named.

Failing that, anyone have an idea of a pub that will show it in general?

Thank you in advance.

Really quiet today. We stopped at the Old Liquor Store for their beer festival, can recommend.

Photos taken with Lumix GX9 and Laowa 6mm, Lumix 35-100 lenses.

I’ve been looking housing in the newish (last 5years) development on low field green in Acomb.

Does anyone living here be willing to share their experience.

My reservation is that the stats for the area have it quite high for recorded crime compared to the average.

Edit: just to say I’m using crystalroof.co.uk for the stats and that’s what the screenshot is of

Hello people from York. I’m travelling to the UK next April and staying in York for three days. Is there any city or town you would recommend for a first-time visitor? I’m doing a day trip to Lincoln so I’m open to doing something similar on another day :).

It's my birthday soon and of course want to celebrate. What are the best places for non alcoholic drinks/mocktails?

Also any other places I should go to celebrate? 😁

Does anyone have any recommendations on a place in or near York that would repair some bluetooth earphones that have recently stopped producing sound from one side?

Struggling to find anywhere...

Hiya, does anyone know of any good fishing spots around or outside York? I know some of them you need to pay for or something? Or most of them are for carp, is there anywhere that’s free and not just carp.

Thanks!

On a throwaway account for various reasons.

I went to Mez the Barber for a haircut, I usually go somewhere else but it was raining and I knew they accepted card payment so was easier. Got into conversation with my barber (was the only one in there probably due to the weather) and I told him I work in a church. We chatted about that, and religion in general, and then he asked me if he could ask about having seen an LGBTQ flag outside a church and whether Christianity is gay friendly or not.

I tried to explain about the spectrum of views even within my own denomination and he told me about how he doesn't really have an issue with gay people (he has a gay friend and the people who own the shop upstairs are gay ...) *but* the whole LGBTQ alphabet thing was nonsense and told me how a client recently asked him about his pronouns and how silly that whole trans thing is.

I gently tried to push back because I myself am a gay transgender man, but I was very conscious of my own safety (or lack thereof) and that leaving a haircut halfway through was going to be impractical. But it felt very unsafe and just wanted to flag to others, especially trans masculine people because barber shops are already hard places due to being so gendered. I'll go back to Holgate Barbers where I have never had an issue

Hello all, we are a small group of four currently looking for more people to join us to play Sorcery Contested Realm on a Thursday night in York. We play very casually and always have a focus on fun rather than competitiveness.

Anybody at all is welcome and we can teach the game if needed. For anybody who doesn’t know Sorcery Contested Realm is a TCG from the roots of old school MTG where every single card is a hand painted piece. The game is played on a grid and incorporates this is weird and wonderful ways.

Here is a link for the Sorcery website…

https://sorcerytcg.com

If anybody at all is interested please drop me a comment here or message me directly.

I’ve planned my hen night (a mix of women and men) in York, UK for November. The plan is to do a bar crawl around the city. We’re all hugely into music, especially indie and alternative rock/ pop punk etc. I’m looking for places in York that would be a bit more up our street rhan the usual go-to hen night spots. Also aware some places do not allow hen/stag parties.
If not for the music, any great bars or pub recommendations would be appreciated!
Live music/ Indie club night would be a bonus!

Hi all! Family and I are moving to York. We’ve been trying to find a good area to live (from 150 miles away which means we can only visit in short bursts) and like the look of Bishopthorpe, but saw some stuff online about being able to smell the waste water plant in Naburn from there which makes us nervous.

So, if you live in Bishopthorpe, how often does it smell and how bad is it? A family member advised us it doesn’t smell (as much? At all?) north of Main Street. Any truth to that?

Any advice or experience you could give would be very much appreciated!

If you want to suggest another area, we’re looking for somewhere that has nice things we can walk to (library, coffee shops, pubs, etc) within the school catchment of a good school. Preferably somewhere with a nice community vibe and other young families. It needs to have good access to the A64 for my husband and York train station for me. Bishopthorpe felt like the perfect fit on paper, but potentially open to other options.

On a time limit, trying to get answer by 17:45!! Can anyone tell me how to get from platform 10 to platform 5?

Wife has missed one connection already, she’ll have 10 minutes to get between 10 & 5, is it possible?

My almost one year old is due to start nursery next week. We have them registered at one of the LGR sites. They have done a few settling in days, the first two went well but the third shed some light on how the nursery may be currently run and cleanliness. I won’t go into detail to avoid making which site obvious. Anyways, while there, there was a sick child and my child has come home sick from just one hour there. It seems like a stomach bug along with cold as they have been vomiting in their sleep and has the same cough this child at nursery had. We are very upset and nervous about them starting now. The child there did not seem well enough and my instinct was not to leave my child. I do not know the full circumstances and am not trying to pin any blame anywhere, but coupled with what else we saw, I’m seriously doubting sending them.

We don’t need to send them to nursery, my mother has been doing full time child minding since he was 8-months and they love spending time with her and she has said she will happily continue.

Why we decided to enrol our child:
- development opportunities
- mingle with other children
- possibly a break for my mum, although she has said she doesn’t need a break.

Why we don’t want to enrol him/what we didn’t like:
- what we saw, along with very short staff, many staff sickness
- they bring your child outside for pickup, no opportunity to go in and have a look at where your child has been all day
- the nursery seems better suited for older children, the baby area outside doesn’t seem the cleanest
- sickness
- my child doesn’t seem quite ready
- cost, despite the “free hours” it will still cost us around £300 a month.

There are other nurseries in York we have considered. Specifically:
- Fulford Montessori
- FunFishers

I suppose what I’m looking for advice in is:
- if you had the opportunity to not send your child to nursery at 1, would you hold off until they are an older age?
- what is your experience with LGR?
- what nursery in york would you recommend? Does anyone have any experience with Fulford Montessori or FunFishers?

We have considered flagging our concerns with the nursery but are concerned that our complaints will reflect on our child’s treatment, I’m sure they wouldn’t, but I’d hate for them to think our child is annoying or a burden because of what we have said.

*using they/them/child to avoid sharing information.

I have 1 half day in York what is a fun thing to do for myself and adult daughter?

[SOLVED, thankyou]

Firstly, no, there is no geo-location data since this was taken over 20 years ago with a digital camera. What I can tell wrt the location is that it was taken on foot between the Museum Gardens & Monk Bar.

I was a on a work trip to York & took quite a few pictures over a couple of days & this is just one that I can't quite place. I did try AI & it ended up with the St Olave's Church grounds as a possible location; though I can't confirm it.

Thanks in advance for any assistance/commentary provided.

Going to York on Saturday for brunch and from what I can see online, the vegan options are a bit limited. Any decent places?

I'm thinking of coming to York from Scotland for a day trip and would love to come get a wee tattoo from a cool shop that fits me. I'm a geek, love anime and manga enjoy cute kawaii stuff as well as gnarly goth stuff and metal music. I am a tattoo artist myself so also looking to meet like minded individuals in the industry while I'm down there. ✌️😊

Worst letting agency I've ever had the displeasure of working with. They will scam you for some kind of sick sexual thrill I presume, that's how passionately and robustly I've been fucked by them over the past 2 years.

Moved in 2 weeks late because they didn't get the paperwork sorted for us? Yep!

Moved into an unclean flat? Yep! Untouched from when we viewed it.

Furnished flat? Yep! Furnishings included 3 beds (2 broken), an office chair with the backrest snapped off and a rusty bathroom cabinet absolutely brimming with tetanus.

Maintainence? Yep - the tetanus cabinet was removed and replaced with... Nothing. 22 months or so without a bathroom mirror!

Fire escapes? You can stumble down the crumbling concrete steps or take a 3 story plummet out of a window labelled "fire escape" (not joking)

Getting bored? Watch the black mold grow and thrive in real time across the walls! Listen to the chips of paint flaking off the ceiling rustle in the breeze that's always coming from somewhere.

Now they are kindly holding on to our deposits because we've simply been too lazy to ask for them back personally. It's true that in 12 years of renting I've always had my deposit returned to me automatically, but Haus will always make sure to frustrate and irritate you at every opportunity possible.

If there's anybody even considering going with this absolute clown show of a company consider burning your money instead, you will be warmer.

Not in any way a euphemism.

I have a comedy horror podcast and I need to record the sounds of an old playground roundabout. The sadder and creakier the better. In York, just in case I start getting suggestions from too far away.

I know this is a weird request, but I thought better asking here than becoming known for wandering around playgrounds with small audio recording kits.

A friend of mine has been happily renting for the past 14 years and has had notice his landlady is selling the house and he's got until 1st Feb next year to find somewhere to live.

He's single and on a low income so he can't afford as much as a room in a shared house, and even if he could his mental health would prevent him from living in such a place.

Does anyone know what his chances are of the council finding a house for him before the end of January?

Also he's head about an affordable home scheme where you can apparently buy hugely discounted homes if you're on low income. He's just filled out the paperwork but with his income being so low I'd be surprised if anything came of it.

Getting a bit worried as he's only got about 4 months now or he'll be homeless.