Coffee Yard
Narrow medieval snickelway leading to a hidden courtyard where an eighteenth-century press once ran.
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This guide to Coffee Yard in York follows Thomas Gent, an Irish printer who walked up from London in seventeen fourteen and fell for a young woman in his employer's household. It moves through the printshops and family rivalries of Georgian York, a weekly newspaper, and the histories Gent wrote of York, Ripon and Hull. Best heard in the small courtyard beside Barley Hall, facing the old workshop on its north side.
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