The solution to last weeks Picture Number 13 –
It’s Fishergate Bar, one of the six gateways in the city walls. It faces south towards Selby. ‘Barram Fishergate’ is the first documented reference to the bar, in 1315. A central stone above the archway reveals the date of the current bar. It contains the York coat of arms and an inscription indicating that sixty yards of the wall, including the bar, was built in 1487 under Sir William Todd, mayor of York.
In 1489, Fishergate Bar suffered considerable damage in the Yorkshire Peasants’ revolt against Henry VII. The gateway was bricked up soon after and wasn’t re-opened until 1834, to give better access for the cattle market.
In 1878, it was announced that a new series of tramways should be constructed in York, and one of the routes was “A tramway commencing at the village of Fulford, passing along the Selby Road into George Street through the Fishergate Bar, along Walmgate as far as Foss Bridge”.
Some restorations were made to the gate in 1961 which is now blocked to traffic, but is accessible to both pedestrians and cyclists.
Picture Number 14 :-
Another wall piercing now for pedestrians and cyclists only.
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