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Annual Meeting Minutes
PEN/3/1 · Item · 1822-1843
Part of York Penitentiary Society

Minutes recording procedings of annual meetings of York Penitentiary Society (typed with draft copies), including Reports of the Committee and a cutting from the Yorkshire Gazette on the subject of building the York Penitentiary. Also includes minutes from a "Meeting of the Subscribers to a Fund for... Hull Penitentiary" from February 1822.

York Penitentiary Society
Annual Reports
PEN/3/2 · Item · 1845 - 1863
Part of York Penitentiary Society

Volume containing printed annual Reports and Proceedings. Includes at end 1860 and 1861 annual report of York Society for Prevention of Vice and Depravity.

York Penitentiary Society
PEN/4/3/1 · Item · c. 1843 - 1845
Part of York Penitentiary Society

Includes:

List showing the number of girls sent to Leeds and Hull Penitentiaries for years between 1822 and 1843, with notes of those doing well or not.

Report of deputation sent to visit the Female Penitentiaries at Hull and Leeds, describing the premises, organisation of the work, wages and duties of staff and rules of the institutions and discipline of the girls. (11 pages manuscript). [a copy may be held in Minute Book 1].

York Penitentiary Society