York Day Two

We had another awesome day in York today.  First off we explored the ruins of St Marys Abbey and Museum gardens.  I really liked all the squirrels that were running around!

 

 

 Then we walked up the Road to York Minster.  It is the largest cathedral in England and dates back to 1220 AD.  It took 250 years to build!

It is huge and full of stained glass windows.  And dead people.  We learnt about how they are restoring the windows and even went underneath into the Undercroft.

 

 

 

After the Minster we had lunch at Starbucks then we walked over to the wall where at one of the gates, called Monk Bar, there was an exhibition on King Richard the Third from the House of York, which has the symbol of the white rose.

After we learnt all about the life of King Richard the Third, we began to walk along the walls of York.  The Wall goes on for over 2 miles and has existed in some form for 2000 years.

 

Halfway round the city walls is another gate called Micklegate Bar where another exhibition was being held in the gate.  This time it was about King Henry the Seventh, who succeeded King Richard the Third.  He married Richard's niece Elizabeth of York and by doing so ended the civil war which was known as the War of the Roses.

 

After leaning about King Henry the Seventh, we continued walking around the wall until we got to Clifford's Tower and the Castle of York.

 

we then visited York Castle which has been turned into a museum.  It had exhibitions on life in York in Victorian times, toys over the last 160 years, world war one, the 1960's and a tour through the dungeon prisoner cells.

 THE TOILET!

 IT ACTUALY STUNK OF HORSE PEE!

 THE JAIL

 VICTORIAN SCHOOL ROOM

 Outside of the castle was an old, disused Mill.

 

This is Clifford's Tower.  It was built between 1245 and 1262 AD and was the keep of York Castle.

 our hotel!