Running round the outside of the city walls (almost, I was inside between Bootham Bar and Lendal bridge), I stopped every minute or so on the way round to take a snapshot of the points of interest:
07.07am - Micklegate Bar
07.08am - Victoria Bar
07.09am - View of wall from Price's Lane
07.11am - Baile Hill (site of the original motte & bailey castle)
07.12am - Clifford's Tower (York's second castle)
07.13am - York Castle Museum
07.13am - Water Mill (part of museum)
07.14am - Fishergate Postern Tower
07.14am - View of wall from Paragon Street
07.15am - Fishergate Bar
07.17am - Walmgate Bar (the only one in the country with a barbican intact)
07.19am - Red Tower
07.21am - Footbridge over River Foss
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07.22am - Jewbury (with Minster behind)
07.22am - Jewbury
07.25am - Monkgate Bar
07.25am - Advert for Bile Beans (popular from about 1900)
07.26am - View of Minster from Lord Mayor's Walk
07.29am - Clifton Bootham (I'm now inside the walls)
07.30am - Bootham Bar
07.31am - York Minster
07.31am - Lendal Bridge (I'm outside the walls again)
07.35am - River Ouse (as seen from railway bridge)
07.37am - Cedar Court Grand (once LNER headquarters)
07.39am - Old Station entrance - before the new station was built in 1877
(on Queen Victoria's only visit to York, she never left the station)
07.40am - Micklegate Bar
(One complete circuit of the walls in just over half an hour)
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