York's Holgate Mill 'roundabout' (all pictures;
see map) has been chosen as the top gyratory in the UK by the prestigious UKRAS (
UK Roundabout Appreciation Society). Their 2013 calendar features it on the front cover.
After the good news making the
York Press yesterday, the mainstream media has picked up on it, and when I arrived this morning, there was a camera crew doing a feature for Look North tonight.
Well, I say 'crew'. It was one bloke doing camera, sound, interviewing and direction. In TV school they call this versatility. In TV itself they call it economy.
Anyway, after his interview with tourismo tsarina Gillian Cruddas (right), the multitasking camera guy borrowed my bike to get footage riding round the thing itself (bottom right).
He then videoed me doing the same, so you may briefly glimpse me in the feature tonight.
And I say 'roundabout'. It's not a real roundabout as it doesn't serve a junction; it's just a doughnut-shaped episode of a residential through-street - Windmill Rise, about half a mile south of the station - that happens to enclose a rather nice
restored mill, landed Tardis-like amid a housing estate.
But it did look quirkily attractive (right) in today's crisp autumn sunshine.
Much in the same way as I didn't, following my recent grapple with a feisty Bradford curry.
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