York Castle Museum recreates 1918 street – archive, 27 November 1961
by By our own reporter from on (#4VQK2)
27 November 1961: The museum curator attempts to salvage parts of the city's old shops and houses before bulldozers get to them
The curator of York Castle museum, Mr R. Patterson, has yet to be beaten in his races against bulldozers when the slums of York are being demolished. Sometimes, perhaps, the bulldozer is there at about the same time - but not before he has snatched the frontage of a shop or other material to be used in the reconstruction at the museum of a Victorian-Edwardian street.
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