FRIENDS OF YORK WALLS CIO

The Friends of York Walls are pleased to be able to release the first full DRAFT text for a major new publication – Guide To York City Walls Trail.

In 2012 Keith Myers, a founder member of The Friends of York Walls, suggested that there were no existing major publications which dealt with the details of a walk around York’s historic walls trail and asked Simon Mattam if he was prepared to undertake the task of producing such a guide.

Simon has spent a lot of time on this project and has produced a detailed text for inclusion in a number of possible publications including – A pocket guide (A5 in b&w); A coffee table book ( A4 in colour); An interactive CD guide (collaboration with http://actualeducation.co.uk); and maybe an E-book and a Smart Phone app.

The guide will also be available to download from the Friends of York Walls website.

It is envisaged that all these options will include enhancements to the new text -including new photographs, old photographs, old pictures, drawings, maps, a timeline, etc.. Printed format and graphics layouts are already in preparation, and the production of an Interactive Guide and collaboration with Actual Education, including 360-degree panoramas, is ongoing. See previews at –http://actualeducation.co.uk/yorks_city_walls_tour.html

The full text of “Guide To York City Walls Trail”, in first DRAFT form, can be seen here.

If you have any comments, corrections, or suggestions related to the text then please get in touch via email to walks@yorkwalls.org.uk

Follow Friends of York Walls on their website at https://yorkwalls.org.uk/, on Facebook and on Twitter where more details of this project will be posted.

The text is copyright to Simon Mattam and The Friends of York Walls. No part of the document may be reproduced in any form without the permission of the author, and then by giving him full acknowledgement for the work.

You are however welcome to print a copy of all or part of the text for personal use. No commercial use must be made of this text.

Introducing a new photographic project and pictorial archive for The Friends of York Walls called “York – Scene From The Walls”.

The object of the project is to record everything that can be seen in all directions and at all “significant viewpoints” around the bars, the full walls circuit and all the associated defences in York.

An archive of still photographs is being produced and made available to the general public on the photo sharing website Flickr. The images are held in a group called “York – Scene From The Walls” and can be viewed on Flickr. It is hoped that these images will provide a useful and lasting resource not only for the Friends of York Walls but also for local organisations including the City of York Council and anyone interested in York’s archaeology and history at a snapshot in time – i.e. Winter/Spring 2013.

Please see the article here for more information.

The Council for British Archaeology are organising a “Festival of Archaeology 2013” from 13th to 28th July 2013.

As part of supporting this event the Friends of York Walls will be opening the Medieval Fishergate Postern Tower, at Piccadilly, York YO1 1PL – from 13th July to 28th July daily from 10am to 4pm.

To achieve this full opening schedule a team of dedicated and trained volunteers will be needed. If you are interested in helping us with this venture and would like to be trained as a volunteer please see the attached document which outlines the “Training Programme” – Aims, Objectives, Orienteering Days, and Deliverables.

For further information please contact sec@yorkwalls.org.uk

FPT Volunteer Training Programme