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Two press cuttings.

Two press cuttings.

The records relate to the closure and reopening the pub, which was also known as the Ackhorne during its history.

Includes photocopies of Brierley's architect drawings: Ouse Bridge, Foss Bridge, Adventurers Hall, County Hospital, Bootham Bar, St Helen's Church and Castle Yard. Also includes details relating to other areas, including Haxby, Bulmer, Hovingham, Castle Howard, Harrogate, Sheffield, Doncaster and Kirbymoorside.

Includes registers of the Bedern, York 1682-1868, transcribed by Rev N B Pace.

Includes a draft document on Bedern by Julian Richards with note attached, as well as catalogue of deeds and indentures and maps and plans of the street with notes.

Includes Bedern rents and title deeds: manuscript notes (tied up with picture cord), as well as original file with notes in manuscript.

Bedern scale measurements, including measure from 1852 map 1:1056 (5ft: 1 miles). Also includes drawings and photocopied maps (1852 map).

Includes details from street directories (York) 1851, 1872, 1876, 1893, 1949-50 (sections only) as well as manuscript notes and photocopies.

Includes manuscript notes; newspaper cuttings; 'A Short History of Bedern Hall' by Lawrie Watson; city map; off print of a book by LP Wenham; papers relating to the possible demolition of the Bedern chapel; correspondence with Peter Hanstock and George Whipp; off prints on Bedern Hall (various); and original file with notes in manuscript.

Bill for horse hay and servant's food
Format: Black and white, 11 x 8
Provenance: Unknown

1 small and 1 larger version of same image.

2 images of bill of sale from the George Inn (landlord David Winn) totalling 2 pounds, 1 shilling, 1 pence for food and drink
Format: Black and white, 11 x 8
Provenance: Unknown

1 image of bill of sale from the Golden Punch Bowl, Stonegate (landlord Richardson) for drinks and tobacco, totalling 3 shillings 2 pence.

Includes documents relating to Bootham; Clifton; Holgate and Acomb; Clifton Airfield; Haxby Road; Holgate Road; Holgate and Acomb; Clifton II; The Mount and Dringhouses. Includes details of numbered slides to be shown and explanatory observations.

Includes a list of boats with their owners, type, date and routes; newspaper cuttings, including a photocopy of the York Courant 27/5/1777; manuscript notes on re-used paper (including an invitation to a wedding); multiple copies of a York Waterworks invitation dated 1908; and a letter from Hugh Murray to the Royal Humane Society dated 1981, regarding life-saving medals.

Includes Lendal Bridge and the Minster; the Bridges of York; River Ouse; bridges and the Foss.

Two typed letters from Chessingham Estates (The White House, Bishopthorpe), signed Michael Hammill BSc ARICS, to S. Heppell Esq., 29 Broadway West, Fulford Road, enquiring about houses on the corner of Lawrence Street and Foss Island Road and the Ideal Laundry Site on Trinity Lane.

Copies of Burdekin's Almanac, relating to the York area and published annually. Incomplete series.

Booklets on York business histories, as well as York tradesmen's billheads and histories; miscellaneous papers on the history of York and press cuttings relating to York businesses.

Covers pubs in the city of York.

Covers details of 18th and 19th century families.

Medals, A to Z.

Covers heraldic bookplates, general, A-Z. Armorial, A-Z including York City, York churches, York Minster.

Covers Royal Antediluvian Order of Buffaloes; Vehicle Registration Numbers; Friendly Societies; Horse Tram Staff; NER Constituent Companies and Goldsmiths C to Y.

Covers clockmakers, watchmakers, money makers, chairman and York pubs.

Covers York streets. Arranged alphabetically. A-T only.

Covers heraldry and what appears to be prominent families.

Card index arranged alphabetically by surname. It would appear that this index relates to authors of articles relating to York.

Contains newspaper coverage of relevant stories.

Correspondence and invoices regarding 'This Garden of Death' by Hugh Murray.

Copies of legal documents (including probate) relating to the Johnson family, as well as correspondence and notes.

Includes press cuttings and copies of plans, such as Clifton and Bootham level crossing, plans and list of landowners; memories of Clifton by Derrick Dandy - photocopy; and Yorkshire Aviation Services Handbook - photocopy.

The correspondence is with the Friends Meeting Houses in York and London.

Various Pedigree charts for Cosser family with handwritten notes.

Includes John Cossius maps: nooklet with sketches of buildings and lists of subscribers. Also includes correspondence relating to Hugh Murray's book on Cossius' Town Plans.

Three drafts of Hugh Murray's book on Cossius' Town Plans, as well as a batch with individual Cossius' drawings of Leeds buildings. Also includes an extract from Defoe's Tour through Great Britain with descriptions of York and Yorkshire, and a picture of St John's Place, Leeds showing Kempley's Academy.

Notes on maps for York, Beverley, Scarborough, as well as lists of subscribers to the maps.

List of Duncumbe's charitable gifts, notes including a photocopy of his obituary by James Raine. Includes notes on the condition of his memorial cross; notes from Yorkshire Gazette 1858-1881; proposed plan for widening Little Blake Street to form Duncumbe Place; copy of his will and his father's will and a press cutting about York market.

Photocopied articles, house plans and extracts from street directories for Elm Bank House on the Mount. Also includes press cuttings.

Twelve photos 8 x 6 of central York streets including walkers, cars, bus at Bootham Bar.
Format: Black and white prints, 8 x 6
Provenance: Photocrom Co Ltd London & Tunbridge Wells

Includes notes on Lingcroft Lodge, Naburn (now called Persimmon House), based on a query letter from the company and then a series of research notes. Also includes letters about the will of Edward Lloyd (died 1863), owner of the house, and pedigree of the Lloyd family; and typed letter from Persimmon Limited, dated 17 August 1984 about Persimmon House, Fulford (which is Lingcroft Lodge, Naburn) and its heraldry.

Includes York Cemetery, maps, plans, aerial photograph and isometric plan, as well as headstone and monument designs. Also includes mourning hearse, share certificates (copies) and notes in Hugh Murray's hand.

Includes Driffield Memorial Company accounts December 1952-December 1955, including sheets of accounts of York Cemetery Company and Memorandum of Association June 1952-December 1955. Also includes correspondence and printed accounts.

Includes exhibition catalogue entitled 'York Silver', Christopher Warner 1978, envelope of copies and notes on Lee's silver; notes by Sessions and lists for Lee's silver publication.

Miscellaneous notes mainly regarding silver. Includes several pages of the Hargrove family pedigree and correspondence from Sessions about publication of W. Lee's 'York Silver'.

Lengthy correspondence and notes about the proposed publication of W. Lee's book on York silver. The correspondence is mainly between Sessions, Lee and W.B. Morrell. Includes attempts to raise funds in 1979 and 1980.

Includes photocopies of 'Charlotte Beebe Wilbour Collection of English Silver' and 'Marks on York Plate', as well as Tennants Catalogue 1997, 'Goldsmiths' Review' 1997-8, photocopies of papers on marks, manuscript checklist of 'York Silversmiths and their works' by W. Lee, C. Warner and E.M. Sessions.

The papers relate to the publication of the 'Directory of York Goldsmiths.'

Typed lists of Goldsmith Freemen arranged alphabetically. Some numbered pages, 12 - 79 but many without numbers.

List of Goldsmith Freemen, marked 'Old List' and folder marked 'dups'.

Includes list of York Goldsmiths by R.C. Hope; photocopies of duty paid at York Assay Office 1805 - 1821; lists of references to York Goldsmiths and photocopies of 'York Assay Office' and 'Marks on York Plate'.

Hugh Murray's 'A Directory of York Goldsmiths, Silversmiths and associated Craftsmen': proofs of illustrations and prelims and a link batch of manuscript notes.

Photocopy of 'Old English Plate' pp. 101-127; list of Goldsmith Freemen (arranged chronologically); photocopy of 'The Plate of the City Companies of York' by Charles Oman.

Photocopies of documents relating to English Plate, Acts of Pariament and York Memorandum Books re quality control. Includes a list of marks on York plate.

Notes on the wills of goldsmiths, arranged alphabetically.

Papers grouped by Hugh Murray: notes and photocopies of Huntington Collection, York, silverware by Mrs E.M. Sessions; Sessions correspondence regarding York silver booklist; list of Freemen Goldsmiths; photocopy of 'Notes on printers and printing'; and typed list of York Silversmiths.

Material for a book on York Silver by William Lee.

Various documents including list of goldsmiths from 1272-1558; members of York Mercers' Guild 1420-1502; article on Yorkshire Water; the latter days of York Assay office - article; booklet on York Silver 1475-1858; YAYAS Times November 1996 and YPS annual Report 1965.

List of jewellers and goldsmiths, under the jurisdiction of York Dean and Chapter, as well as passages from York House Books regarding goldsmiths and associated correspondence.

York Goldsmiths and Silversmiths: A first alphabetical check list compiled by Hugh Murray.

Directory of York Goldsmiths and Silversmiths by H. Murray, as well as an article on Christopher Harrington, York 1614. Includes a list of names.

Covers introduction. King's Square to Scaurius Railway Hotel. York Coat of Arms. Armed Services personnel. Outside Micklegate Bar (OMB). York Arms. Heraldry at Bishopthorpe Palace. Exhibition Square to Petergate. Lost Heraldry of York Minster. Ecclesiastical Heraldry. Arms of 4 Archepiscopal Sees. Arms of the See of York. St. WIlliam's College, Bootham Bar, etc. Bedern area. Tanners Moat, York Cemetery, etc. 'York'. Arms and Oxford Colleges. Confluence of Ouse and Foss.

View from Foss Bridge. Evelyn Collection. Copyright: YAYAS. RCHME.
Format: Black and white, 22 x 17
Provenance: Unknown

2 copies, 1 is enlarged.

Includes meeting papers 2008-2010; FOYC News; leaflet on the herb garden; and City of York Council leaflet on 'Funding for Voluntary and Community Organisations 2002/4'.

Includes education service leaflets; guided tour information 1997-1998; balance sheets 1993-2001 (incomplete set) and meeting papers (incomplete set).

Editions of the 'The Last Post' newsletter.

Photocopies of Court Rolls, 1447, 1700 and 1852, as well as photocopies of maps of Water Fulford 1745 and 1860-1870.

Handwritten and typed letters to and from Val Portas.

Two handwritten sets of notes on Gilling Castle, including a copy of Sir William Fairfax Books of Arms of Yorkshire and correspondence relating to 'The Great Chamber of Gilling Castle' by Hugh Murray.

Includes Gilling pedigrees and illustrations; drafts and notes relating to 'The Great Chamber at Gilling Castle' booklet; and illustrations of St. Donat's College, Wales.

Includes Christies catalogue of antiquarian books 1995; newspaper and magazine articles relating to research at Gilling Castle; illustrations and descriptions of armorial bearings at Gilling Castle; first floor plan of Gate House, Sheriff Hutton; and a map of the wapentakes of the North Riding.

Includes notes and newspaper cuttings relating to Gilling Castle research, including the Sotheby sale of Elizabeth panelling and glass 1929, notes and correspondence relating to the sale, book about the armorial glass of the Inns of Court and a booklet entitled 'A Knaresborough Tercentenary'.

Format: Black and white photo, 6 x 4
Provenance: G Fawcett 66 Gillygate

Pedigrees of owners of Heslington Hall. Includes handwritten notes and press cuttings. The families mentioned are Greame, Lloyd, Bateson, Eymes, Yarburgh, Hesketh, Neville. Also includes a copy of the Heslington Hall chapter from Wheater's Historic Mansion of Yorkshire, 1866.

Typed manuscript document titled 'Heslington Hall and its owners during the past four centuries'. Numbered paged 1-52. Includes handwritten corrections and one inserted page of notes by John Bowes Morrell.

A series of six handwritten notes or copied sources on Heslington Hall including undated sale document; notes on the Eynns family; York Civic Trust Plans for the a 'Folk Park' in the grounds of Heslington Hall; and press cuttings from the York Evening Press dated 14 July 1981 about the RAF in Heslington.

Handwritten notes on Heslington Hall, including a wallet of notes with extracts from a number of books.

Full size copy of Country Life article on Heslington Hall from 19 July 1913. Also includes a short document describing the proposed site for the University of York.

A series of eight handwritten notes or copied sources relating to Heslington Hall. Includes an article from Country Life dated 2nd September 1971; reprint from Historic Houses of Yorkshire and Lincolnshire by G.J.M. FitzJohn entitled 'Heslington Hall'; geneaological notes of the Reresby family; copy of Heslington - A Rural Poem; and an Old Peterite dinner invitation 1983.

Series of original and copy letters by Hugh Murray to the Deramore family and others, including the architect Francis Johnson and including geneaological details.

Photocopied sources and handwritten notes on the heraldry of Heslington Hall.

Includes a map of the area; chronology of Backhouse family and nurseries in Toft Green; and handwritten notes about Tanner Row and Toft Green.

Includes an advert for Brasso.
Black and white print, in 3 different sizes.
Provenance: None
Duplicates: Yes
Type of item: Modern copy, see Hugh Murray 'The Horse Tramways of York', 1980, pp 2 &54; 15.5x11, 9x14 and 18x13 cms

Photographs are of the same scene, but include a close-up view showing the horse tram in more detail, and a wider view showing the street scene. Two of the photographs are captioned 'Daylight' on the back.

Includes details of the Light Railways Act 1896 and Tramway Act 1870, folded plan 1:500 of Micklegate area (c.1960), correspondence with Town Clerk 1879-1980, Hugh's scribbled notes, and additional pieces of correspondence.

Includes Hugh Murray's manuscript with paste-ups of draft pages, sections 1A and 1A2; correspondence regarding source booklets and photos of public notices regarding tramways 1878-1902.

Further draft sections and chapters of Hugh's manuscript, including sections 1 and 2, maps of York Centre including one coloured with 'original proposals', photostats of 'Some Facts and Comparisons' issued by York Independent Labour Party on the imminent vote to privatize the tramways, 'York Tramways Order 1879' as printed; 1881 draft Provisional Order, two original Provisional Orders dated 1878 and 1880, and photostat of share offer and opening of tramway extensions, including names and addresses.

Includes tramways amendments (possibly notes for Hugh Murray's book, plus 'list of plans and illustrations' and sections redrafted. Also includes photostats of 1878 initial proposals for tramways in York, photocopies of two articles on the history of tranways by George Jackson, and a photostat of the Tramway Orders Confirmation Act 1879.

Includes Hugh Murray's manuscript with paste-ups, sections 3 - 4, (numbered in red) plus notes, manuscript timetables (c 1900), figures regarding tracks, expenses and receipts and population information. Also includes negotiations between York Corporation and the Tramways Company (1899-1906) plus report dated 1907 of agreement to sell the undertaking to the Corporation, memorandum on the position of the Tramways Company and proposals, poll of owners and ratepayers, and article from 'Modern Tramway' Magazine entitled 'Perspectives of Modern Tramways 1978.'

Pencil manuscript of Hugh's book 'Horse Tramways of York' 1880-1909, 140 pp., wired together.

Family pedigrees for Acastre; Atkinson; Akenhead; Armitage; Archer and Aitken.

Family pedigrees for Agar.

Family pedigrees for Anderson (including Yorkshire Herald cutting from 28 August 1913 reporting the death of Dr. Tempest Anderson); Angel. Also includes secondary source material and articles on the history of Tempest Anderson.

Notes, photocopies and pedigrees for: Bacon; Barstow; Bartram; Bourchier; Britton; Bass; Barton; Brunskill; Braund; Bosworth; Booth; Brett; Bloom; Bridge; Birks; Bowes; Barrington and Bootland.

Notes, photocopies and pedigrees for: Brown (including York Department Store Brown's); Brownbridge; Bellerby; Bearbark; Blanshard; Hewley and Baines (sic); Britton and Browne.

Notes, photocopies and pedigrees for Berry; Burton; Barclay; Blackburn; Bathurst; Brearley; Benson; Broxup; Birch; Baines (see Graham); Barber; Bwye; and Balmford.