Sophie! Hi...i used to love putting bottles of bubbles from poundland in that fountain, and filling up water bombs from it and chucking them at tourists.......XX
this house seems to have been quite the topic of conversation recently. Alma Terrace. 2 flipping million!
Ruth you wee Hispanicistic botanisticic devil. I have always wondered who was responsible for putting the bubbles in the fountains. All the time she was sitting next to me in Spanish! I even thought of you while writing this cos I wanted to cover Dewsbury Terrace but ran out of room for more photos - the Substack machine cut me off.
And as for the Alma Terrace one - SO MUCH TO SAY. Mainly about checking the ceiling price of the area you're renovating in because people with £2m probably don't want to spend it in Alma Terrace. What a joke! Absolutely lovely and brilliant though Alma Terrace is.... but it's ideally designed for people in the £380k bracket. Also, the floods.
What are other people saying about the £2m Alma one then? Says it was meant to be a boutique hotel hence the full restaurant kitchen? Lolololol.
Ha ha!! Yes - a Portuguese botanist by day but a secret moonlighter bubbling up york by night! I really loved your post. And the houses. We nearly bought that mark hearld house next to the Maynard’s, he’s made it much nicer than we would have I expect! Please do part 2….
Alma terr, it was going to be a hotel that’s right, I think it even was for a bit, but it was up for 1.65 then mysteriously (or not, I haven’t followed it closely) got put up to 2! It’s just so out of sync with that area and that decor? So. Weird!
Dewsbury terrace. Ahhh. No longer there.
It got too small for the kids, animals and belongings I’ve accumulated over the years, also bored of American tourists peering down from the city walls saying ‘Jeez, do people really live in those little houses’ and shouting at people to get their dogs off the fucking walls (i like dogs. i have one. But this was an inherited must-do from my dad).
These days those houses are mostly Airbnb’s. Our old house there is now called The Duchess. Honestly. Xxx
I too noticed the Alma Terrace price rise to £2m and my theory is that it was listed with a bit missing before? Maybe one part is a separate apartment now added into the whole compound? I can't quite remember now but do hope someone with some hot local goss will arrive on this thread to enlighten us before too long.
God, funny to think of the street you grew up on as "mainly Airbnbs now." I'm not totally against it but... strange. Loving you turning into your dog-barking dad.
Worrrr, great intel. Went to York for a uni open day in 2000-ish, came into the city (for a campus uni…err, why?), someone had put bubbles in the fountain, bubbles EVERYWHERE, moved to York nearly 20 years later, could not find a fountain. Thought I’d imagined the whole thing.
Gaah, I was living in York from 1993-1996 and then again from 2017 and I only have one very vague recollection of bubbles in Parliament Street, but not of the fountain. Great article though and thanks for the recommendations for the next open art day!
I saw that! Stunning. £220k is just an auction starting price (as you probably noticed) so it could go for anything. Presume you'd need at least a million to carefully rebuild it.
I reckon much more than a million. We were just looking at getting our bathroom redone (in York) and the place told us they are currently refurbishing just bathroom(s) in a 4 bed house in York and the bill is £135,000. That's at most 1 main and 2 en suite, I'd guess.
I'm so happy to read about your fountain in York. In Nottingham, the Market Square fountains suffered the same regular bubbly colourful fate...it's almost like there wasn't much to do in the evenings in the Nineties!
Going to need to hear more about the Market Square fountains. Did dogs piss in them as well? God bless the enshittification of our once (never) glorious nation.
A post about York this is the BEST of days! Also I can’t believe that I didn’t know about the fountain before this is great intel. Sad it is no longer there, Parliament Square is a barren landscape. THANK YOU for mentioning my house, I know every single one of the houses you mention as I spend almost every waking hour looking on Rightmove xx
I put so many photos on the thread that Substack was threatening to crash if I added any more - there comes a time when the 'THIS IS TOO LONG FOR AN EMAIL' warning sign flashes up so much that the whole thing breaks. So I think we're going to have to have a York Part 2 another time. So much more to say! If only to wax lyrical about streets like St Pauls Square, Mount Parade, St Martin's Lane, Precentor's Court, Dewsbury Terrace, Dewsbury Cottages, Alma Terrace, St Oswalds Rd and I haven't even started on the villages.
This side of York - so Monkgate, St John’s, end of Huntington Road and also near the train station, so end of Holgate, East Mount etc. But I don’t want to spend a mill. Obvs. My needs are simple - Victorian terrace with a kitchen that needs work and a living room that’s 14 x 12 min. So simple hahaha.
Mark Heald's house reminds me of the lovely Richard E Grant's house. I don't know if you've covered it on here or I saw it on IG, but my God, it must be like dusting the Forth Bridge. Every time I look at him I think of his cleaners now. They must drink a lot of coffee.
Sophie! Hi...i used to love putting bottles of bubbles from poundland in that fountain, and filling up water bombs from it and chucking them at tourists.......XX
this house seems to have been quite the topic of conversation recently. Alma Terrace. 2 flipping million!
https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/158069177#/?channel=RES_BUY
Ruth you wee Hispanicistic botanisticic devil. I have always wondered who was responsible for putting the bubbles in the fountains. All the time she was sitting next to me in Spanish! I even thought of you while writing this cos I wanted to cover Dewsbury Terrace but ran out of room for more photos - the Substack machine cut me off.
And as for the Alma Terrace one - SO MUCH TO SAY. Mainly about checking the ceiling price of the area you're renovating in because people with £2m probably don't want to spend it in Alma Terrace. What a joke! Absolutely lovely and brilliant though Alma Terrace is.... but it's ideally designed for people in the £380k bracket. Also, the floods.
What are other people saying about the £2m Alma one then? Says it was meant to be a boutique hotel hence the full restaurant kitchen? Lolololol.
Ha ha!! Yes - a Portuguese botanist by day but a secret moonlighter bubbling up york by night! I really loved your post. And the houses. We nearly bought that mark hearld house next to the Maynard’s, he’s made it much nicer than we would have I expect! Please do part 2….
Alma terr, it was going to be a hotel that’s right, I think it even was for a bit, but it was up for 1.65 then mysteriously (or not, I haven’t followed it closely) got put up to 2! It’s just so out of sync with that area and that decor? So. Weird!
Dewsbury terrace. Ahhh. No longer there.
It got too small for the kids, animals and belongings I’ve accumulated over the years, also bored of American tourists peering down from the city walls saying ‘Jeez, do people really live in those little houses’ and shouting at people to get their dogs off the fucking walls (i like dogs. i have one. But this was an inherited must-do from my dad).
These days those houses are mostly Airbnb’s. Our old house there is now called The Duchess. Honestly. Xxx
I too noticed the Alma Terrace price rise to £2m and my theory is that it was listed with a bit missing before? Maybe one part is a separate apartment now added into the whole compound? I can't quite remember now but do hope someone with some hot local goss will arrive on this thread to enlighten us before too long.
God, funny to think of the street you grew up on as "mainly Airbnbs now." I'm not totally against it but... strange. Loving you turning into your dog-barking dad.
Worrrr, great intel. Went to York for a uni open day in 2000-ish, came into the city (for a campus uni…err, why?), someone had put bubbles in the fountain, bubbles EVERYWHERE, moved to York nearly 20 years later, could not find a fountain. Thought I’d imagined the whole thing.
Oh my god, ahahahahahhahah. I think I must have written this article for you! (My dad taught at York Uni throughout my entire childhood.)
Gaah, I was living in York from 1993-1996 and then again from 2017 and I only have one very vague recollection of bubbles in Parliament Street, but not of the fountain. Great article though and thanks for the recommendations for the next open art day!
Also, a bit further north but Ben Myers posted this on Instagram and it caught my eye... https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/159019310#/
I saw that! Stunning. £220k is just an auction starting price (as you probably noticed) so it could go for anything. Presume you'd need at least a million to carefully rebuild it.
I reckon much more than a million. We were just looking at getting our bathroom redone (in York) and the place told us they are currently refurbishing just bathroom(s) in a 4 bed house in York and the bill is £135,000. That's at most 1 main and 2 en suite, I'd guess.
I'm so happy to read about your fountain in York. In Nottingham, the Market Square fountains suffered the same regular bubbly colourful fate...it's almost like there wasn't much to do in the evenings in the Nineties!
Going to need to hear more about the Market Square fountains. Did dogs piss in them as well? God bless the enshittification of our once (never) glorious nation.
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A post about York this is the BEST of days! Also I can’t believe that I didn’t know about the fountain before this is great intel. Sad it is no longer there, Parliament Square is a barren landscape. THANK YOU for mentioning my house, I know every single one of the houses you mention as I spend almost every waking hour looking on Rightmove xx
I put so many photos on the thread that Substack was threatening to crash if I added any more - there comes a time when the 'THIS IS TOO LONG FOR AN EMAIL' warning sign flashes up so much that the whole thing breaks. So I think we're going to have to have a York Part 2 another time. So much more to say! If only to wax lyrical about streets like St Pauls Square, Mount Parade, St Martin's Lane, Precentor's Court, Dewsbury Terrace, Dewsbury Cottages, Alma Terrace, St Oswalds Rd and I haven't even started on the villages.
Please do a part two or series
PS Whereabouts are you looking for your next project? I await it with bated breath...
This side of York - so Monkgate, St John’s, end of Huntington Road and also near the train station, so end of Holgate, East Mount etc. But I don’t want to spend a mill. Obvs. My needs are simple - Victorian terrace with a kitchen that needs work and a living room that’s 14 x 12 min. So simple hahaha.
My favourite areas! Always look around Holgate (well kind of The Mount to St Pauls Square) first, then Bootham area. Just the best townhouses.
Oooh I'm so excited you're doing a townhouse!!!!!!!!
Oh yes I forgot bootham, there as well. Also I love precentors court!! But no parking at all for miles. Such a shame
Mark Heald's house reminds me of the lovely Richard E Grant's house. I don't know if you've covered it on here or I saw it on IG, but my God, it must be like dusting the Forth Bridge. Every time I look at him I think of his cleaners now. They must drink a lot of coffee.
Delightful! Lived on Alma Terrace as a student - a few houses above the flood line.
Absolutely brilliant place to live as a student / single parent family / Alligator wholefoods type. I trust you drank in The Welly!
Slightly odder place to be expected to spunk £2m on a possibly failed boutique hotel
https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/158069177#/?channel=RES_BUY