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New Alongside
Today, the identity of that building and its use were explained when we were shown, approaching in the opposite direction, a new complex of buildings which includes shops down an alleyway leading to a court behind a medieval, buff colored stone church, St. Mary’s Castlegate. On the far side of the court were additional commercial buildings above which were apartments, all topped with several stories of parking cars. It was these apartments from the other side that I had seen from Fairfax House. From the living room of the apartment we were shown, one could look in one direction to round Clifford’s Tower ona hill, built in William the Conqueror’s time to guard the entrance of the Foss River, and in the other to St. Mary’s Castlegate, behind which had been created the new court for the Coppergate shopping development.
Here too is the entrance to the underground Viking museum, to be opened soon, and which we were privileged to see in the process of construction. A number of the streets are called “gate,” a derivative of the Norse word for street or alley and a verbal remnant of the city’s Viking past.
If what I’ve just recited is slightly confusing, that is
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