Paul Wainwright

@paulwainwright.bsky.social

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Curious about our ancestors and how they changed the world around them. Researching improvement in 18thC Yorkshire. Love maps, visualisations, manuscripts & Suede.

David Byrne with musicians and dancers, on stage dressed in orange jumpsuits, singing and dancing in front of an image of a big wave. Having a ball!
River Foss in York, totally covered in fluorescent green algae.
Map of North Eastern Railway routes, made from tiles, on the wall at York Railways Station.
Detailed model for a limestone carving of King Athelstan, to replace an eroded one, and to be sited high up on York Minster. He’s holding a model church (possibly the original Minster?)
Relief print by Anne Marie LeQuesne called Brief Encounter showing three people passing each other.
Oil painting of fishermen in a boat by Andrzej Khun which appears to have been painted on the back of the canvas because the hanging string is on the same side as the painting.
Arch made in York city walls to allow railway track to pass through. Now a road with no track
Watermark in a 16th century voucher showing flat palm of hand with outstretched thumb and star or five petalled flower on the fingertip
A notebook and bundle of vouchers from 1555 with building material and labour costs
Warburton’s map of Yorkshire 1720
Page from the 1457 account book of Kattryn sailing from Hull. Also shows cover made from different paper.
Letter which has unusually big spacing between the lines. From John Shawe, Governor of York Merchant Adventurers in 1510
Map of NER railway routes c. 1900 at York station