-
Good work DC Schick
A colleague in the office reckons is the Giant shop as well as he can remember there being some kind of cycle shop prescence there since he has been in York, which is about 40yrs.
Also being a building surveyor he mentioned that the windows seem to match and that the ‘small frontage’ to the right was put on as part of a remodelling of that terrace and the space behind it.
Nice to find it and have a wander around York as well
-
https://earth.app.goo.gl/wv24fM
upstairs view entirely feasible
It's the second option. Alan Elsegood said:
https://www.lfgss.com/comments/9659199/
I assume that he meant the Minster was visible, not the shop--it's not completely clear. However, he certainly doesn't say that the Minster could be seen from the shop, and in fact seems to say that it couldn't, only from the first floor above (and therefore presumably the rear windows).
Also, the tops of the cornice dividers (don't know what they're called) match. Those in the first option are completely different, and wouldn't have been changed, and neither would the adjacent door have been very likely to have been moved.