The ancient city of York is full of bygones. Bygones of its founders the Romans, bygones of the people who named it Yorvik - the Vikings, bygones of the medieval times, bygones of Tudor and Stewart times, bygones of the Civil War Roundheads and Cavaliers, bygones of the industrial revolution and the railways, and bygones of the modern post industrial age.

There is so much of these bygone days still to be found in the city; the city walls (Roman and medieval), the Minster, the Shambles, Barley Hall, the Treasurers House, the National Railway Museum, the Castle Museum, the York Museum, the Yorvik Viking Museum, the Merchant Adventurers Hall, Fairfax House, the Snickelways, Clifford’s Tower, the Richard III Museum, any much more.

So on a recent visit we spent a few days wandering around the city and discovering and photographing a few of these bygone wonders.

We visited the Yorvik Museum, the Treasurers House, the Minster, the Shambles, Barley Hall, Beningbrough Hall (just 8 miles north of York) and the National Railway Museum, as well as many of the old narrow streets known as the Snickelways. Of these, we were able to photograph the Minster, the NRM, the Shambles and Beningbrough Hall. Click the links to see the photos.