Explore Micklegate’s hidden past, from medieval splendour to industrial change. Starting at the North Eastern Railways War Memorial, discover stories of royalty, rebellion, and transformation that have shaped this ancient route from gate to river.

This walking tour of Micklegate will be led by MA student Emma Knutzen, whose research looks at York’s public and social history. Later in the year, Emma will be recording the talk to be available online , so join us to participate in York Civic Trust’s first fully accessible walking tour.

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Do you wonder what happens in the Magistrates’ Court? This event will help demystify the legal system, explain how guilt or innocence is decided and how sentences are reached. Local magistrates offer a presentation about their work in court –“ sittings” -and invite participation.

Local magistrates Brian Watt JP and Chris Tolley JP will host the presentation in Fairfax House, part of the Magistrates in the Community initiative by the Magistrates Association to open up court processes. Teams of volunteer magistrates across the UK aim to engage with audiences such as schools, colleges, community groups and social groups. The aim is to educate the wider community about the work of their local court.

The event is tailored to suit different audiences, and can involve an interactive mock trial; commonly heard cases in the Court; how verdicts are reached; how sentences are decided, using the now-famous Sentencing Guidelines; how magistrates are appointed; what is their role or the lawyers role; what is topical.

This will be an opportunity to ask questions and to participate.

Castlegate Hub, Fairfax House

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Join the York Civic Trust for its upcoming Summer Garden Party, held in the beautiful and award-winning St Anthony’s Hall Gardens. Enjoy a relaxed and sociable evening with live music, drinks and nibbles.

Restored by the York Conservation Trust between 2009 and 2013, St Anthony’s Hall Gardens have become a delightful city centre garden retreat for residents, visitors and local artisans including the Thin Ice Press, York Ghost Merchant’s Dispensary and Arras Restaurant.

This summer gathering offers an opportunity to explore this historic space, meet its artisan residents, and connect with fellow Civic Trust supporters.

All Civic Trust members are welcome to bring one non-member guest.

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Established in 1953, the Borthwick Institute for Archives is one of the UK’s largest archive repositories. Join us as we spend the afternoon exploring its rich and historically significant collections. Think you know the Borthwick? Think again….

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Dick Reid, the Master carver who died two years ago, left an indelible mark on many other of the major buildings in York. Buff Reid has agreed to do a walk around some of these. It will be an opportunity to see the diverse places that benefited from his work and will stand as his legacy to the city.

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Professor Kate Giles is a buildings archaeologist at the University of York, with a background in art history. She is especially interested in communal buildings of the medieval and modern periods and how we can encourage people to visit and care for them.

She has agreed to show York Civic Trust members around the Grade I listed King’s Manor (currently part of the University of York) and tell us about some of the building’s rich history.

The visit will last about 1 hour and we will meet at the King’s Manor main entrance, under the coat of arms.

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This event is part of York’s Roman Festival, sponsored by the York Civic Trust. Tickets can now be booked through the Roman Festival, YMT page.

A chance to hear Peter Addyman on a life of archaeological revelations in a conversation led by John Oxley. There is probably no-one in York with the depth of archaeological experience and local knowledge that Peter Addyman has collected since he arrived in the city in 1972.

Peter Addyman is a British archaeologist who was Director of the York Archaeological Trust between 1972 to 2002. After studying archaeology at Cambridge University, Peter taught at Queen’s University Belfast and the University of Southampton. In 1972 he was made the first Director of the York Archaeological Trust, the creation of which he had proposed. In this role, he oversaw significant excavation work in York, and the development of the Jorvik Viking Centre, the Archaeological Resource Centre, and Barley Hall.

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Join architect and historic buildings consultant Keith Knight on a tour of Clifton, originally a small settlement off a Roman road into York. Records show medieval buildings when horse racing started there at the end of the seventeenth century, and it remains the site of fascinating buildings, schools and churches today.

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An intriguing look at very familiar places. Dr. Jane Grenville has kindly agreed to lead a walk through the city centre when odd and interesting views will be pointed out. A chance to see some things that are often overlooked, but once seen will never be forgotten.

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Bob Hale will reprise a walk first offered some years ago, charting the first hundred years of Wesleyan Methodism in York. Although John Wesley preached at Acomb in 1747, he was almost 50 before he first came into the city in 1752. However, travelling constantly and indefatigably around England and Wales until his mid 80s, he returned on some two dozen further occasions, preaching in neighbouring towns and villages, and encouraging, inspiring and closely supervising local Methodism’s rapid growth.

Our walk, starting at Dean’s Park, will take in the several places where he preached in York, mostly still there but drastically altered, some long gone. Fifty years after Wesley’s death, his followers here built a “Cathedral of Methodism” in St Saviourgate, the magnificent Centenary Chapel of 1840, designed to seat 1500 people, now known as Central Methodist Church. Here the walk will finish.

Bob Hale left teaching to train as an archivist. He held posts at the Record Offices in Beverley, Reading and Sheffield before retiring to York. For twelve years he served as honorary archivist of the Yorkshire Philosophical Society, and he currently leads a group transcribing local medieval Latin documents.

Meet at 2.00pm in Dean’s Park, by the north-west tower of the Minster. Sturdy shoes and rainwear advised.

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