This is Specsavers, York. I forget which street it was on. The windows still look original!

Waterstones: mainly for the windows. The upper ones seem to have been replaced at some time.

This is the south entrance to a modern retail outlet building with an Art Deco style exterior. It’s just off the A 19 Selby Road, York.

There were some nice deco style pillars to the left of the entrance.

All my Art Deco pictures of York are on my flickr.

Marks & Spencer and Halifax, Parliament Street and the Pavement, York.

The M&S has two entrances, one in Parliament Street, York, the other to the right here on The Pavement. The corner is occupied by the Halifax (a branch of HBoS)

Strong verticals on the Halifax building and also note the narrow windows on the right just beside the green fronted M&S.

This is the view from The Pavement. Good strong verticals, subtle pastel outlining.

This is a building on Picadilly, York, which houses Argos and Ladbrokes among others. The lower stonework has good detailing.

This side is more deco as regards the windows, especially th elong narrower one on the lower right.

This is Fraser & Hart on the corner of Spurriergate and Market Street, York. A great example of taking advatage of a corner site.

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There’s some nice coloured glazing above the street level windows.

The detail on the columns and upper windows is very pleasing.

Further along Spurriergate is the building which now houses Next. The street isn’t wide enough to get it into one shot from the front even with my new camera’s wide angle lens.

The balcony fits easily though. Nice banding in the stonework. The lower windows are fine but the upper ones look terrible in comparison.

This is the facade of the Premier Inn, York, like the Reel Cinema located in The Mount, close to Micklegate Bar.

The glazing is modern but isn’t out of keeping with the deco style. The tower and clock face are wonderful. You can see through the central window that they use that room for linen storage.

We took a day trip into York when we were down south. The city was littered with Art Deco.

This cinema was on the road in from the Park and Ride. We walked back out so that I could take the photographs. (It’s not that far outside the old walls, just beyond Micklegate Bar actually, and we passed a second hand bookshop on the way which consumed some time.)

It used to be the Odeon but seems to be named the Reel cinema now.

The new camera has a wide angle lens and seems to give tall or long buildings a tilted or curved look.

This is from the left hand side, lovely sweeping curve here. The windows, here, above the door and on the right hand side have been replaced by modern ones but reasonably in keeping with what the originals must have looked like.

It’s similar in style but not detail to the Odeon in Chester.

There’s something about the brick, though. It could be so much more. Wouldn’t this building look really fantastic rendered in concrete and painted white with pastel highlights?