Clements Hall Local History Group

07/05/2026

May is Local History and Community Month so why not come along to our next talk, by local photographer Catherine Sotheran on Friday 22 May 2026 at 7.45pm in Clements Hall. Details at https://www.clementshallhistorygroup.org.uk/our-events/micklegate-and-bishophill-in-close-up/

01/05/2026

York City FC are on our minds just now, so we wrote about one of their players from the 1920s, who had a shop in Bishyroad

Community writer SUSAN MAJOR shares a great story about a former York City footballer George Maskill

27/04/2026

We've written a new blogpost about an intriguing trace from history at the recently refurbished on Bishopthorpe Road. Have you spotted them yet?
https://www.clementshallhistorygroup.org.uk/blog/traces-of-history

20/04/2026

What on earth happened on this street? 👀

15/04/2026

Do you remember the Lamb and Lion pub on Blossom Street, which closed in the 1980s? Our latest blogpost talks about the history of this old pub. We're still keen to collect memories from old customers, which was popular with cinemagoers after the Odeon opened in 1937. So do let us know if you have any more recollections - send them to us at [email protected]
https://www.clementshallhistorygroup.org.uk/blog/remembering-the-lion-and-lamb/

Many thanks to Duncan Greaves we have the order in 1914 for a large number of wartime soldiers and their horses to be accommodated at the pub.

14/04/2026

We've written a feature about Micklegate and our book in the April issue of The Yorkshire Dalesman magazine

05/04/2026

We wrote a feature about the history of the Brewdog building in Micklegate, as it's just been sold. It's in today's online The Press in York, will be in print on Wednesday.

Most recently, it was a watering hole for craft beer lovers - but the former BrewDog bar in Micklegate, York, has a fascinating past. As the…

31/03/2026

Our latest blogpost is about a new book to be launched in June, by first-time author Ben Robinson about life in Clementhorpe during World War I. Details here

18/03/2026

Still a few tickets left.

16/03/2026

15/03/2026

Just a reminder about our talk next Friday, 20 March 2026. Margaret Scott, the archivist of the modern Mystery Plays will be talking on 'York Mystery Plays: the 75th anniversary of their revival'.

In 1951 Britain celebrated the Festival of Britain, 100 years after the famous Victorian one. Not many people know that York was selected as one of the cities also to have its own Festival. That was when the York Mystery Plays were revived for performance, and have famously continued every few years since. Hans Hess from Skeldergate in Bishophill, Director of the York Art Gallery, was Assistant Director of the York Festival in 1951, working with Keith Thomson.

Many of the performers in the 1909 Pageant in Museum Gardens came from our own area of York, from South Bank, Bishopthorpe Road, Bishophill and Micklegate for example.

Details are here https://www.clementshallhistorygroup.org.uk/our-events/york-mystery-plays-the-75th-anniversary-of-their-revival/