{"id":64,"date":"2013-07-18T10:15:00","date_gmt":"2013-07-18T09:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.york.ac.uk\/borthwick-institute\/?p=64"},"modified":"2024-04-23T10:22:20","modified_gmt":"2024-04-23T09:22:20","slug":"the-tuke-work-experience-project-views-of-york","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.york.ac.uk\/borthwick-institute\/2013\/07\/18\/the-tuke-work-experience-project-views-of-york\/","title":{"rendered":"The Tuke Work Experience Project: Views of York"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

We are finishing off the series of Tuke work experience blog posts with an entry from Alex and Martha who looked at some views of York, and the Tuke house.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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We start with some views of York from Alex<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of the most interesting items I have had the opportunity of handling this past week has been a collection of 10 photographs of the City of York c 1860 [Reference: TUKE\/2\/2\/6\/3\/6]. Seeing photos of instantly recognizable sites dated over 150 years ago is absorbing. The collection of photographs had been selected to be included in the memoir of Samuel Tuke, 1784-1857. It is of great interest that these particular images were chosen to best represent York and Samuel Tuke\u2019s life, suggesting they were just as important to the local area then as they are now.\u00a0 Samuel was heavily involved in The Retreat, a mental health hospital in York that still survives today, just 5 minutes from The Borthwick Archives. The Retreat was established by Samuel\u2019s grandfather William Tuke, and the Borthwick holds most of their records.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Above we can see a photograph of Micklegate Bar, a photograph of a print of Ouse Bridge, a photograph of 8 figures in front of Ackworth School, a photograph of the south side of York Minster, a photograph of a print of Walmgate Bar, a photograph of Lindley Murray’s house in Holdgate, a photograph of a print of Chichester Cross, a photograph of the tomb of Archbishop de Gray in York Minster, and a photograph of a sketch of the Shambles in York.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Martha found some photographs of the Tuke’s house in Lawrence Street<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Whilst going through the Tuke archives one of the most fascinating things I discovered was in the photography collection. The pictures show where the Tukes used to live in York, and the family\u2019s house was located on Lawrence Street. It is a shame that the house has not been preserved, as it is now surrounded by a busy road, and the beautiful gardens attached to the house have since been filled with an industrial estate. It is sad to think that the many people, who pass the house every day, are unaware of the rich history that it holds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The pictures show the house and garden in their former glory taken in the 1850s, and we can see members of the Tuke family in the pictures.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Esther Tuke in the garden of the Tukes’ house in Lawrence Street<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

To read more about our student volunteers’ work with the Tuke archive, please see Growing Up With The Tukes<\/a> and Who Do You Think You Are Kidding, Mr Bonaparte<\/a>?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We are finishing off the series of Tuke work experience blog posts with an entry from Alex and Martha who looked at some views of York, and the Tuke house. We start with some views of York from Alex One of the most interesting items I have had the opportunity of handling this past week … Continue reading The Tuke Work Experience Project: Views of York<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":242,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[21,12,20],"class_list":["post-64","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised","tag-19th-century","tag-borthwick-trainees","tag-tuke-family"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","custom_fields":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":[""],"_edit_lock":["1713864127:242"],"_last_editor_used_jetpack":["block-editor"]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.york.ac.uk\/borthwick-institute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.york.ac.uk\/borthwick-institute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.york.ac.uk\/borthwick-institute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.york.ac.uk\/borthwick-institute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/242"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.york.ac.uk\/borthwick-institute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.york.ac.uk\/borthwick-institute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.york.ac.uk\/borthwick-institute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.york.ac.uk\/borthwick-institute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.york.ac.uk\/borthwick-institute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}