York Buildings

York Buildings
Named After	Duke of York
Construction
Builder	William Ransom

The properties in York Buildings originally had front gardens enclosed by railings, which were paved over in order to widen the carriageway in front (Brett mentioning that the Town Commissioners had approved this in 1841) and shop fronts installed by around 1875 (Cousins giving this later date for the shop fronts)^[1]^[2]. There would appear to have been plans originally to name this side of the road (the other side being Wellington Place) York Street, however the Council rescinded the order giving the buildings that name in favour of one naming them their current name in 1854^[3].

Images

Images
Buildings below York Place 1810
York-Buildings.-1868.
Page207-York Buildings and Albert Memorial 1873-Hastings of Bygone Days and the Present
Albert-Memorial.-1875.
An-early-view-of-the-Memorial-clock-Tower-c1880
Memorial.-1881.-cdv.
Albert-Memorial.-1889.
Albert Memorial circa 1901
Town-Centre.-1902.
Town Centre 1903
Looking towards memorial c1903
The-Memorial-1903
York-Buildings-and-Wellington-Place.-1904.
Albert Memorial c1907
Outside-the-York-PH-1908.
The Memorial circa 1908
Maypole-York-Buildings.-1912.
The-Albert-Memorial.-1912.
The-Albert-Memorial-Town-Centre.-After-the-Gale-of-23rd-March-1913.
The Memorial, Hastings. 1920
Albert Memorial c1923
AlbertMemorial c1923
Albert-Memorial.-1932.
The-Albert-Memorial-1935
The-Memorial.-1936.
Guy-single-decker-trolley-bus-at-Wellington-Place-and-York-Buildings.-1946-7.
MemorialYorkBuildings1952
The-Albert-Memorial.-1956.
Cycle Race c1960
Town Centre in the 1960s
Looking-down-York-Buildings.-1974.
Town Centre c1980
Ashford Skinheads at the Memorial 1981
Bus outside York Buildings 1988