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[steepholm]

When I lived in York in the 1980s it was already very much a tourist city, especially in summer, and perhaps the most tourist-thronged street was The Shambles, with its picturesquely overhanging gables that (so I was always told) had shaded the meat in hot weather in the days before refrigeration. For The Shambles was traditionally a street of

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[poliphilo]

I don't know any street in Britain quite like The Shambles, but I suppose our towns must once have been full of them.

I suspect Diagon Alley also owes something to the film and TV adaptions of Dickens....

[ashkitty]

Wow. I don't even remember that from the last time I was there in 2016, though I suppose they may well have been - I don't see why we would have missed the Shambles as we did some exploring, but perhaps between the conference and the mead-hall we got turned around...or else they're new.

[steepholm]

The Shambles is fairly central, but I suppose it might be easy to miss if you were just exploring at random. I've no idea how long these shops have been there, though.