Our whistlestop journey through York history continues - this time focusing on 1984 and 1985. The Minster fire, miners' strike and the changing face of York city-centre all feature here. But what do you recall of York in the 1980s? Share your memories below, or email our features team.

 

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1984 - The Coppergate excavations in the city-centre

 

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1984 - The new Coppergate Centre taking shape

 

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1984 - Margaret Thatcher at the National Railway Museum

 

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1984 - York Amateur Rugby League team who beat Humberside in the National final at Clarence Street

 

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1984 - One of the most infamous nights in recent York history, as fire tears through the South Transept roof of York Minster

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1984 - Firefighters tackle the flames at the Minster 

 

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1984 - In the aftermath of the fire, crowds view the damage

 

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1984 - A meeting of striking Rowntree maintenance workers

 

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1984 - The Dick Turpin Inn team with the York John Smith's Sunday Football League Trophy which they team won at Bootham Crescent by beating Civil Service 2-1

 

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1984 - The Annual Community Carol Concert at the Grand Opera House

 

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1985 - Protestors demonstrate outside York District Hospital against the proposed closure of Naburn Hospital

 

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1985 - A Viking fleet sails up the Rive Ouse

 

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1985 -  Pictured in the bar at the Saddle Inn are, from left to right: manageress Angela Hill, bar manager James Adams junior, owner James Adams senior and his wife Joyce

 

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1985 - Minster Song School boys give a rousing send-off to their head, the Rev Bevan Wardrobe who was retiring after 18 years

 

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1985 - The Clash march down Petergate on their way to an impromptu performance outside the Minster.

 

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1985 - The Clash perform to fans in King's Square before moving to the West End of the Minster.

 

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1985 - The Queen Mother inspecting the guard of honour after arriving at York Station

 

 

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1985 - The Macdonalds store in the old Scala cinema site in Fossgate

 

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1985 - The restoration at York Minster is well under way

 

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1985 - The first of five huge oak trusses that would support the new roof of York Minster's South Transept is carefully lowered into place

 

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1985 - Demonstrators outside York Crown Court, where 18 striking miners were appealing against sentences

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1985 - Naburn Hospital chapel, which had closed

 

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1985 - SS Empire amusement machines which are to be auctioned

 

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1985 - Jim Bone, president of York and District amateur Rugby League, shows some of the players the two trophies competed for in the seven-a-side knockout tournament at Clarence Street to celebrate the centenary year of York and District ARL.

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