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Cobbles and Crusoe
11:52am Monday 26th May 2008
Comments (7)IT is every inch the picture-perfect York postcard.
This spectacular image was captured by Press photographer Anthony Chapel-Ross as The Shambles was turned into a film studio for the day.
Hollywood actor and Yorkshireman Sean Bean is seen here taking a break in between takes while the extras mill around in a startling glimpse of how York appeared in centuries gone-by. The street is the latest place to be utilised by film crews shooting the multi-million pound Robinson Crusoe TV series in York, which has also brought Sam Neill to the city.
Filming will continue at selected locations next week.
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petethefeet, York says...
11:22pm Mon 26 May 08
the Butler wrote:Not as old as you sir, my memories only go back to the fifties. I was born on Rougier Street and all my early memories were of coal. There were coal-yards on the river, where the Viking hotel stands, a coal-yard on Rougier Street itself (next to MacMillans, and another just through the Marble arch. It all ended very quick.
When I was a lad, on Saturdays I, with my pals used to go to the cattle market near Fishergate and find out who wanted animals herded to the Shambles butchers slaughter houses for a few pence, coal merchants delivered anthracite and speciality coals via horse and cart, this was really not so long ago,in the early thirties,Gas lit houses and streets were common...
annette Lamey, Vancouver, Canada says...
6:32am Tue 27 May 08
fayrelady, York says...
6:38am Tue 27 May 08
fayrelady, York says...
6:39am Tue 27 May 08
amigo, york says...
7:39am Tue 27 May 08
petethefeet wrote:you two must be old then. Do you remember a cafe in a hut/shed in Rougier St?
the Butler wrote: When I was a lad, on Saturdays I, with my pals used to go to the cattle market near Fishergate and find out who wanted animals herded to the Shambles butchers slaughter houses for a few pence, coal merchants delivered anthracite and speciality coals via horse and cart, this was really not so long ago,in the early thirties,Gas lit houses and streets were common...Not as old as you sir, my memories only go back to the fifties. I was born on Rougier Street and all my early memories were of coal. There were coal-yards on the river, where the Viking hotel stands, a coal-yard on Rougier Street itself (next to MacMillans, and another just through the Marble arch. It all ended very quick.
SilverSurfer, Surfing says...
8:03am Tue 27 May 08
Do you remember a cafe in a hut/shed in Rougier St?I was born in the fifties and can remember the 'busmans' cafe!
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the Butler, Cowichan Bay B.C Canada says...
5:28pm Mon 26 May 08