https://yorkcivictrust.co.uk/joseph-hansom-plaque/ Promoting Heritage - Shaping Tomorrow Mon, 04 Jul 2022 12:21:12 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://yorkcivictrust.co.uk/joseph-hansom-plaque/#comment-5203 Fri, 05 Jul 2019 14:01:13 +0000 https://yorkcivictrust.wpengine.com/?p=1678#comment-5203 As Secretary to the ‘Scandalous Bohemians’ Sherlock Holmes Group, I was delighted to discover that the building which now houses ‘Brigantes’ (our new meeting venue in York) was also the birthplace and former home to the designer of the Hansom Cab – this seems highly appropriate and I’m sure Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (not to mention Holmes and Watson!) would have been tickled pink! (I shall therefore be forwarding York Civic Trust’s link to all our SBs members, in honour of Joseph Aloysius Hansom!)

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