City Walls – their conservation and use

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City Walls – their conservation and use.
Edited by Michael Hopkinson and Margaret Atherden.
PLACE 2007.  ISBN: 978-0-9553424-4-8
52pp.  9 black/white illustrations, 8 colour plates.
Price: £2.50 (+ P & P)

Foreword by the Lord Mayor of York.  Considers the history of walls, their changing function over the centuries and their future management and uses.  Chapters on York’s city walls and bars by Michael Hopkinson, Barbara Wilson, Eric Branse-Instone, Rory McCarthy and Michael Taverner.  Chapter on the work of the Walled Towns Friendship Circle by John Price.  A comparative chapter on Canterbury’s city walls by David Kincaid.

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