First community archive project delves into 150 years of local primary school’s history

Volunteers are leading the first community-based archive project , exploring the history of Lord Deramore’s Primary School, as part of the Heritage Lottery Funded Gateway to History project by City of York Council’s Libraries and Archives.

One of the oldest state primary schools in York which opened its doors in 1856, Lord Deramore’s Primary School has kept its own archive collection including minute books, log books and photographs. The Gateway to History project has recruited three volunteers to take forward an innovative research project which is investigating the complete history of the school, including a special focus on the First World War to coincide with its centenary. In commemoration, the school will be transforming one of the classrooms into how it would have looked during the First World War, complete with desks and costumes.

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York roads with highest numbers of speeders revealed

 

Results from the mobile camera speed camera van, for the first 3 months of 2014, have revealed the  roads on which the highest numbers of Penalty Charge Notices have been issued.

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A total of 747 tickets have been issued to drivers exceeding the 70 mph speed limit on the A64 southern by pass near Heslington and traveling in an eastbound direction.

527 PCNs were issued to drivers on the same section of road while traveling in a westerly direction.

The next highest numbers were on Tadcaster Road (85), Strensall Road, Huntington (52) and Dunnington Lodge (23)

A copy of the results, for the whole county, can be downloaded from here

Mobile safety camera routes week commencing 23 April 2014

Below are the enforcement locations for North Yorkshire Police’s mobile safety cameras for week commencing Wednesday 24 April 2014.

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Government gives York additional £100,000 towards transport improvements

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City of York Council has been awarded an additional £100,000 from the Department of Transport, towards the city’s i-Travel York initiative.

Many residents will hope that the funding is used to repair faulty “real time” information systems indicating the Variable Message Signs on the City’s arterial routes as well as the car park availability information which has disappeared from the Council’s web site.

One of only nine local authorities to receive the funding, York successfully won the financial backing following a bid in November 2013 to deliver the government’s Local Sustainable Transport Fund project ).

This council’s i-Travel York initiative was launched in 2011, made possible by £4.6 million of government funding which the council successfully bid for in 2011.

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