YORK'S narrow streets take pride of place in this week's Yesterday Once More.

It proves that centuries-old half-timbered houses are not only to be found along Shambles.

Patrick Pool, which has been in existence since the early 13th Century, is just one of those narrow, overhanging lanes.

The intricate black and white timber work was not always so gleaming as it is today.

In 1957, when the decision to restore them was taken, the tumbledown buildings were in a sorry state.

Now pedestrians hurry past each week as they walk along one of the shortest streets in York. The cobbled street of Newgate is just around the corner from Patrick Pool. Shoppers cutting through from King's Square to the markets would once have been passing an old warehouse.

York Markets Committee considered demolishing the old building in 1957.

But the crumbling warehouse was still standing in the winter sunshine of 1961.

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