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Archival description
Claims to the Freedom
Y/COU/3/12/241 · Sub-series · 1999
Part of York Civic Archive

Files for individuals who received their freedom by patrimony or by apprenticeship only. Y/COU/3/12/241/5 was not used.

Claims to the Freedom
Y/COU/3/12/245 · Sub-series · 2003
Part of York Civic Archive

Files for individuals who received their freedom by patrimony or by apprenticeship only. Y/COU?3/12/245/4 was not used.

District Elections
Y/COU/4/2/5 · Sub-series · 1973
Part of York Civic Archive

Includes papers relating to election results, nominations, ballots, proxy lists, letters, forms, absent voters, staff, premises and election expenses.

Books of monthly accounts
Y/ENV/1/1/12 · Sub-series · 1915-1921
Part of York Civic Archive

Includes monthly accounts for dues and towage, as well as returns from the Ouse Navigation Company for Hull and York.

Books of carbon copies.
Y/ENV/1/1/15 · Sub-series · 23 January 1953- 9 August 1964
Part of York Civic Archive

The carbon copies contain details of charges due for each vessel, the name of the captain and master, and particulars of the boat.

Y/HEA/6/1/1/3 · Sub-series · 1901-1930
Part of York Civic Archive

Annual returns of all lunatics by the Clerk of the York Board of Guardians. Lists name, age, gender and residence (for example, name of asylum or other residence) of all lunatics chargeable to the York Poor Law Union.

Y/HEA/6/1/1/4 · Sub-series · 1906-1925 [with gaps]
Part of York Civic Archive

Lists name of lunatic, name of poor law union paying the charges, and date of admission. Includes pauper lunatics as well as private and criminal patients. From 1918 returns include a list of 'Service lunatics' from WW1 [note that there are gaps in the series]

Humber Conservancy
Y/ENV/1/1/57 · Sub-series · 1906-1924
Part of York Civic Archive

This series primarily includes rules and bye-laws pertaining to the Humber Conservancy.

Palatine flood gauge sheets
Y/ENV/1/9/1 · Sub-series · 1935-1959
Part of York Civic Archive

Complete series of sheets for the period. There are a number of sheets per year, and include a pen-drawn line showing the water levels. Scale half inch to one foot. Sheets for 1939 are missing.

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Photographs
Y/ENV/5/19/15 · Sub-series · 1950s
Part of York Civic Archive

Black and white photographs of slaughterhouses in York. Includes images of slaughterhouses in Barbican Place, and Clementhorpe

Crash Plan files
Y/ORD/4/7/130 · Sub-series · 1952-1962
Part of York Civic Archive

Includes papers and additional correspondence relating to the Crash Plan.

Civil Defence Observations
Y/ORD/4/7/74 · Sub-series · 1952-1956
Part of York Civic Archive

Includes a book about the weather and ways to measure it, and correspondence between the Royal Observer Corps and the Home Guard.

Y/ORD/4/7/76 · Sub-series · 1950-1967
Part of York Civic Archive

Includes papers relating to premises owned or hired by the York Civil Defence Association. Also includes plans and maps relating to the construction of garages for the Civil Defence Corps.

Y/PPT/2/1/15/20/2 · Sub-series · 1923-1933
Part of York Civic Archive

Comprises records relating to Hope Street, Albert Street and Long Close Lane.
Includes correspondence; lists of properties, owners, and required improvements; lists of premises stating numbers of occupants and occupations; plans of individual houses; and lists of removals and rehousing.

Y/PPT/2/1/15/20/3 · Sub-series · c1890s-1930s
Part of York Civic Archive

Includes correspondence; a detailed statement of the Hope Street Area Improvement Scheme, including occupations of tenants; plan of the clearance area; printed resolutions of York Council committees, 1924; copy of the Hope Street Improvement Order, 1925; lists of properties and occupiers/owners; blank forms; newspapers with printed public notices of schemes; two copies of the Medical Officer of Health's 'Report on the Sanitary Conditions of Hungate, 1908'; objections; notes from interviews with Ministry of Health officials; procedures to follow to enact an order; draft copies of wording for the Hope Street Improvement Scheme; printed lists of Freemen for Micklegate Ward (1890s); rough notes on unhealthy houses; estimates of costs; summaries of housing in the area; and rough notes; and death and disease rates in the area.

Halifax Bomber crash in York
Y/ORD/4/6/13 · Sub-series · 1945
Part of York Civic Archive

Includes correspondence files regarding the crash, as well as newspaper clippings and official casualty lists. The bomber crasher in Nunthorpe Grove.

Staff registers
Y/ORD/4/6/15 · Sub-series · 1940-1945
Part of York Civic Archive

Staff registers including salary details and length of time served with the York Corporation. The volumes primarily cover the Town Clerk's Office.

Training exercises
Y/ORD/4/6/16 · Sub-series · 1939-1944
Part of York Civic Archive

Includes electrical and radio notes for wireless operators, training reports, correspondence regarding enemy weaponry, premises papers and details of exercise 'Leap'.

Circulars
Y/ORD/4/7/10 · Sub-series · 1949-1971
Part of York Civic Archive

Files of circulars, memoranda and accompanying correspondence relating to the work of the Civil Defence Association in York. Also includes some indexes to circulars.

Y/ORD/4/7/12 · Sub-series · 1955-11 January 1971
Part of York Civic Archive

Includes correspondence, minutes and agendas for meetings of the Civil Defence Committee, including details relating to the creation of an Establishment Committee and emergency committees.

Civil Defence competitions
Y/ORD/4/7/15 · Sub-series · 1954-1960
Part of York Civic Archive

Includes rules for the National Civil Defence competitions, as well as the Wireless competition. Also includes some information about competition processes and briefs.

Control Centres
Y/ORD/4/7/17 · Sub-series · 1952-1967
Part of York Civic Archive

Papers relating to the management of Civil Defence control centres,

Skeldergate Improvement
Y/PPT/2/3/12 · Sub-series · 1889
Part of York Civic Archive

Comprises sales particulars and a printed public notice regarding land surplus to the street widening of Skeldergate.

Financial papers
Y/ORD/4/7/27 · Sub-series · 1949-1971
Part of York Civic Archive

Includes financial returns and paperwork regarding the expenditure of the Civil Defence Association in York.

Organisation of hospitals
Y/ORD/4/7/33 · Sub-series · 1948-12 September 1971
Part of York Civic Archive

Includes papers regarding the organisation of hospitals and hospital-based exercises. Also includes associated correspondence.

Minutes
Y/ORD/4/7/69 · Sub-series · 1949-1967
Part of York Civic Archive

Minutes of meetings of the Civil Defence Assocation, including committee meetings.

Civil Defence Wardens
Y/ORD/4/6/2 · Sub-series · 1938-December 1945
Part of York Civic Archive

Includes pictures of the Head Wardens for York, Chief Warden's correspondence, Chief Warden's circulars and information about the numbers of paid and unpaid wardens.

Women's Voluntary Services
Y/ORD/4/6/8 · Sub-series · 1938-1949
Part of York Civic Archive

Includes the ten year report, the knitting report and one correspondence file regarding the work of the service.

Y/PPT/2/1/2 · Sub-series · 1936-1938
Part of York Civic Archive

Details recorded include: number in rate book; address; name and address of owner or agent; name of responsible tenant; names of other tenants or sub-tenants; number of persons normally sleeping in rooms; size and use of rooms; and number of persons allowed per room. Note that the information recorded varies from sheet to sheet.

Inspectors' notebooks
Y/PPT/2/1/6 · Sub-series · 1954-1960
Part of York Civic Archive

Notebooks used by housing inspectors to record rough notes on visits to individual properties in The Groves , Layerthorpe and Walmgate. The books appear to be notes of visits carried out in response to objections when a house was declared unfit.

Y/ENV/2/1/2 · Sub-series · 1646-1803
Part of York Civic Archive

Alehouse registers of recognizances for various dates and wards including the Ainsty as follows:

  1. York and Ainsty alehouses 1646
  2. Ainsty alehouses 164.
  3. York and Ainsty licensed malsters 1646-1647
  4. York and Ainsty alehouses 1647
  5. Ainsty alehouses 1647
  6. York and Ainsty alehouses 1648
  7. Ainsty alehouses 1648
  8. York and Ainsty alehouses 1656
  9. York and Ainsty alehouses 1660
  10. York and Ainsty alehouses 1662
  11. York and Ainsty alehouses 1663
  12. Ainsty alehouses collected fragments [undated]
  13. York alehouses collected fragements [undated]
  14. Alehouse licences with soliders billeted in houses 1720-1730s
  15. York and Ainsty alehouses 1754 with soldiers billeted in houses 1754
  16. York and Ainsty alehouses 1755
  17. York and Ainsty alehouses 1756 with soldiers billeted in houses 1756
  18. York alehouses [c.1755-1775]
  19. Ainsty alehouses 1763
    20 York and Ainsty alphabetical list of alehousekeepers 1765
  20. York and Ainsty alphabetical list of alehousekeepers 1766
  21. York and Ainsty alphabetical list of alehousekeepers 1767
  22. York and Ainsty alphabetical list of alehousekeepers 1768
    24.York and Ainsty alphabetical list of alehousekeepers 1769
  23. York and Ainsty alphabetical list of alehousekeepers 1770
  24. York and Ainsty alphabetical list of alehousekeepers 1771
  25. York and Ainsty alphabetical list of alehousekeepers 1772
  26. York and Ainsty alphabetical list of alehousekeepers 1773
  27. York and Ainsty alphabetical list of alehousekeepers 1774
  28. York and Ainsty alphabetical list of alehousekeepers 1775
  29. York and Ainsty alphabetical list of alehousekeepers 1776
  30. York and Ainsty alphabetical list of alehousekeepers 1777
  31. York and Ainsty alphabetical list of alehousekeepers 1778
  32. York and Ainsty alphabetical list of alehousekeepers 1779
  33. York and Ainsty alphabetical list of alehousekeepers 1782
  34. York and Ainsty alphabetical list of alehousekeepers 1783
  35. York and Ainsty alphabetical list of alehousekeepers 1784
  36. York and Ainsty alphabetical list of alehousekeepers 1785
  37. York and Ainsty alphabetical list of alehousekeepers 1786
  38. York and Ainsty alphabetical list of alehouseheepers 1787
  39. York and Ainsty alphabetical list of alehousekeepers 1788
  40. York and Ainsty alphabetical list of alehousekeepers 1789
  41. York and Ainsty alphebetical list of alehousekeepers 1790
  42. York and Ainsty alphabetical list of alehousekeepers 1792
  43. York and Ainsty alphabetical list of alehousekeepers 1793
  44. York and Ainsty alphabetical list of alehousekeepers 1794
  45. York and Ainsty alphabetical list of alehousekeepers 1795
  46. York and Ainsty alphebetical list of alehousekeepers 1796
  47. York and AInsty alphabetical list of alehousekeepers 1803
Y/COU/6/1 · Sub-series · 1894-1914
Part of York Civic Archive

Registers of electors eligible to vote in parochial elections. Please note, these items are a duplicate set of registers - our full set of registers can be found in the Archives Reading Room.

Y/EDU/5/2 · Sub-series · August 1845-1891
Part of York Civic Archive

Includes a pamphlet 'A friendly Parting Shot at the Defeated and Discomfited Free Library Committee' (with covering letter), a flyer entitled 'Mr. George Leeman's Last Words to his Fellow Citizens, November 11th, 1881', one catalogue of books held in the library, a collection of newspaper articles collected by the York Free Library Committee, correspondence files and architectural drawings.

Cremitt monies
Y/SOC/3/6 · Sub-series · 1651-1836
Part of York Civic Archive

Includes:
E83: Book containing receipts and payments in respect of cremitt monies, 1651-1660;
E84: Register book of persons entitled to 'cremitt' money and other charities; also extracts from wills, together with the names of persons in St Catherine's and St Thomas's Hospitals etc, 1719-1836.

St Anthony's Hospital
General correspondence files
Y/CUL/3/2/3 · Sub-series · 1950-1980s
Part of York Civic Archive

Includes correspondence received from members of the public in relation to the activities of the Art Gallery. Arranged semi-chronologically, the correspondence has been grouped together by theme or by correspondant.

York School of Design