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23 STONEGATE YORK FROM AROUND 1590.

York Medical Society.

23 ST0NEGATE YORK. YORK MEDICAL SOCIETY.   From a window at the back.

23 ST0NEGATE YORK. YORK MEDICAL SOCIETY. From a window at the back.

For the past 25 years, the City of York has held the Residents Festival , on the last weekend in January, when 100s of museums ,Theatres and places of interest,open their doors for free to residents This year i noticed, The York Medical Society.23, Stonegate I had not heard about them.having lived in York for over 80 years.i decided to go and visit.----------------Stonegate is one of York"s most picturesque and historic streets,that leads from the Mansion House to York Minster. Number 23 is down a short passageway,that as metal gates , i have walk past it many times. The building is one of Yorks larger timber framed houses from 1590. A man called Tempest Anderson lived here till 1913 , he was an Ophthalmic Surgeon at York County Hospital
{ Now closed} he also was a photographer and Vulcanoloist. He was born in York 1846 and died at the Red Sea in 1913.------------------York Medical Society have held their meetings at number 23 since 1915. The Society was formed in 1831 to promote medical knowledge and
medical education. It is a charity. The house has a Lecture room, Library, small museum of medical things and the Tempest Anderson Room, plus the garden at the rear of the building , On restorations in the past fragments of Roman tiles and Roman coins have been found.23 STONEGATE YORK.  Passageway into number 23.  York Medical Society.

23 STONEGATE YORK. Passageway into number 23. York Medical Society.

23 STONEGATE YORK. Garden at rear of building,in January.

23 STONEGATE YORK. Garden at rear of building,in January.

23 STONEGATE YORK.  In garden looking at the back of number 23.  York Minster tower can be seen.

23 STONEGATE YORK. In garden looking at the back of number 23. York Minster tower can be seen.

23 STONEGATE YORK. Garden.

23 STONEGATE YORK. Garden.

23 STONEGATE YORK.  Tempest Anderson room.

23 STONEGATE YORK. Tempest Anderson room.

23 STONEGATE YORK.  Lecture room.

23 STONEGATE YORK. Lecture room.

23 STONEGATE YORK.  Corridor.

23 STONEGATE YORK. Corridor.

23 STONEGATE YORK..Library and internet room.

23 STONEGATE YORK..Library and internet room.

23 STONEGATE YORK.  Medical instruments.

23 STONEGATE YORK. Medical instruments.

23 STONEGATE YORK. Old medical implements.

23 STONEGATE YORK. Old medical implements.

23 STONEGATE YORK.  Pictures and photos all around the building.

23 STONEGATE YORK. Pictures and photos all around the building.

23 STONEGATE YORK .Old donations board.

23 STONEGATE YORK .Old donations board.

23 STONEGATE YORK .Passageway looking towards Stonegate.

23 STONEGATE YORK .Passageway looking towards Stonegate.

23 STONEGATE YORK  Leaflet with information on York Medical Society... Coat of Arms dated 1831.

23 STONEGATE YORK Leaflet with information on York Medical Society... Coat of Arms dated 1831.

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