York Mansion House
Georgian mayoral residence with civic silver, restored kitchens and portraits of past Lord Mayors.
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This guide to York Mansion House, the Lord Mayor's Georgian residence on St Helen's Square, follows George Hudson, the railway magnate who served as Lord Mayor three times in the eighteen-thirties and forties. It touches on the dawn of the railway age, a parade and dinner thrown for fourteen thousand people, and the critics who began asking where the money came from. Best heard standing on the staircase, in front of the largest portrait in the house.
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