Villages Around York Through Time Revised Edition

by Paul Chrystal

This book tells the fascinating stories of five villages situated to the north of the city of York. Spanning events from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries through to the opening of the new Joseph Rowntree School in 2010, it provides a brief history of life here through the years with informative captions accompanying each photograph. The book will give today's residents a unique glimpse of how their village used to look, as well as reviving nostalgia in those who used to live or work here. Early schools and churches in Haxby and Huntington, Strensall's association with the Army, the impact of the Foss Navigation and the pioneering, visionary work of the Joseph Rowntree Trust which resulted in the garden village that is New Earswick - all are covered here in pictures and in words.

96 pages, Paperback

Published June 15, 2015

About the author

Paul Chrystal attended the Universities of Hull and Southampton where he took degrees in Classics. For the next thirty-five years he worked in medical publishing, much of the time as an international sales director for one market or another while latterly creating medical educational programmes for the pharmaceutical industry. He worked for companies such as Churchill Livingstone, Wiley-Blackwell, CRC Press, Academic Press and Elsevier.

Reviews

[Ape · Rating 3 out of 5]

As with many of the books in this series, you know what you're getting. Lots of then and now photos of various local views with a little bit of text. Not enough for me, particularly with the old photos I'd love to see dates and names, but it's not to be. The title is a little misleading as this book focuses on the north York "villages", so Haxby, Wigginton, Strensall, Huntington and New Earswick. There's a lot more around York, but perhaps that will be a part two book?