York from the past: How Marks and Spencer looked in 1924

OUR archive photo today takes us back 100 years.

So much has changed in a century - and in many ways, York is a completely different sort of city.

But reassuringly, some things have remained.

One such example is the Marks and Spencer store in Parliament Street - the subject of our attention today.

Our photo shows the store as it is today, in Parliament Street.

However, York's first Marks and Spencer opened in Pavement in 1907 as the city's original Penny Bazaar.

The store in Pavement, York, pictured between 1907 and 1918

For context, in York that year, the Yorkshire Land and Property Defence Association first met and the poet WH Auden was born.

The business has Yorkshire roots - it began as a Leeds market stall run by Polish emigree Michael Marks, where all goods were sold for a penny.

It stayed in Pavement until 1918.

For more old photos of York, do visit the city council's Explore York archive (images.exploreyork.org.uk).

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