6/19 Looking for Snickelways & Finding Diagon Alley

According to a popular book about the City of York, a snickelway is a narrow passage that was historically a shortcut between places.  The criteria for being a snickelway is that it must be open to the public at all times, be very narrow, and a way to get from one place to another.  I bought this book at the Minster Gift Shop and decided to try to find some of these shortcuts.  It is listed on the U.S. version of Amazon only as an expensive used book, but I paid only about 13 GBPs for my copy.  Here is a link, in any case, to a Wikipedia site that explains it a bit more and shows a copy of the book I bought: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snickelways_of_York

The only problem with this book is that the maps are hand-drawn and very hard to follow, but i did find two of them.  Here are several photos of the most impressive of the two.  The first photo shows the narrow road that takes you to the one opening: 

And here is the entrance to the snickelway.  It starts out wider and ends up narrower, as you can see from the following photos:

 

 

 Here is another one I found:

 

 

 

As I was walking around trying to follow the map, I noticed a crowd of people taking photos down this narrow road.  And as I usually do, I stop and look when I find a crowd so I can see what they are seeing.  

 

 

Finally, I realized that this was Diagon Alley from the Harry Potter movies.  I don't know if they actually used this alley for filming or if it was just the inspiration for the place.  Anyway, a lot of stores were displaying Harry Potter things for sale.  

 

 

This place was selling all kinds of Harry Potter stuff, and is painted to look like it belongs in the movies.  

Anyone need a wand?