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Committee minutes relating to this function can be found at Y/COU/5/10.

Records concerning planning, property and transport such as civic buildings and maintenance, town planning and strategy, streets, road and rail transport. Committee minutes relating to this function can be found at Y/COU/5/9.

This is a selection of the civic archive containing the records which are currently available for access only. Further historical and modern records will be added to this section as they are catalogued.

Records concerning courts, prisons, civil and military defence, the watch, police and fire-firefighting, and licensing. Committee minutes relating to this function can be found at Y/COU/5/8. Wardmote court records are found with the freemen records at Y/COU/3.

This is a selection of the civic archive containing the records which are currently available for access only. Further historical and modern records will be added to this section as they are catalogued.

Please note, records of York Magistrates Court are not contained in this series, and have the reference YMC. Records of Selby Magistrates Court have the reference SMC.

This section relates to the internal legal records of the council. For public legal records such as court records and prisons please see Y/ORD (Public Order, Justice and Defence) Committee minutes relating to this function can be found at Y/COU/5/7.

This is a selection of the civic archive containing the records which are currently available for access only. Further historical and modern records will be added to this section as they are catalogued.

Comprises records regarding the provision of public health services and the improvement of public health in York. Includes reports and records relating to following: general administration; sanitary inspection; infectious diseases; maternal and child health; mental health care; World War II health measures; occupational health; health services; health education..

Records concerning city finance. Committee minutes relating to this function can be found at Y/COU/5/5.

This is a selection of the civic archive containing the records which are currently available for access only. Further historical and modern records will be added to this section as they are catalogued.

This is a selection of the civic archive containing the records which are currently available for access only. Further historical and modern records will be added to this section as they are catalogued.

Currently comprises educational welfare maps

This is a selection of the civic archive containing the records which are currently available for access only. Further historical and modern records will be added to this section as they are catalogued.

This is a selection of the civic archive containing the records which are currently available for access only. Further historical and modern records will be added to this section as they are catalogued. The collection currently comprises records on festivals and celebrations and facilities and services.

Records concerning elected members, committees, full council meetings and the freemen. Also registers of electors for parochial, municipal and parliamentary elections including the current [2015] electoral roll for the City of York.

This is a selection of the civic archive containing the records which are currently available for access only. Further historical and modern records will be added to this section on a regular basis as they are catalogued..

Records concerning civic administration such as governance, business support functions, the Lord Mayor and civic party and staffing. Committee minutes relating to this function can be found at Y/COU/5/1.

This is a selection of the civic archive containing the records which are currently available for access only. Further historical and modern records will be added to this section regularly as they are catalogued.

Y/ADM/4/2: Lord Mayor's correspondence

Comprises scrapbooks containing photographs, press cuttings, programmes and tickets documenting Jim Hammond's performances. Also includes a file of the individual parts that he played during his 40-year association with the Rowntree Players.

Comprises records relating to the administration of the poor rate. The poor rate was a local tax on the yearly value of a property, levied by the parish. The money collected from poor rates was used to help finance relief for the poor as well as the infrastructure of administering that relief.

From 1837 to 1925 the York Poor Law Union was responsible for administering the poor rate, and from time to time other rates (such as the lighting rate).

Comprises records relating to the preventative public health measures administered by the York Poor Law Union.

Includes vaccination registers; register of tuberculosis notifications; and correspondence of the York Rural Sanitary Authority.

Comprises records relating to the maintenance of pauper patients in hospitals and asylums.

Includes records relating to the City Fever Hospital at Yearsley Bridge; the York City Mental Hospital at Naburn; and Grove House, a private asylum at Acomb.

Comprises records concerning the welfare of children who came into the care of the York Poor Law Union and later the Pubic Assistance Committee.

Includes records relating to apprenticeships; registers of children boarded out and in farm service; register for enforcing school attendance; and correspondence concerning the boarding out of children.

Comprises records concerning the settlement and removal of paupers under the York Poor Law Union and the Public Assistance Committee.

In order to have the right to claim poor relief a person had to have the right of settlement in a parish/ward in the area in which they were currently residing. Those who did not have the right of settlement could be forcibly removed.

Includes registers and accounts of non-resident and non-settled poor; and registers of removal orders and settlement enquiries.

Comprises records relating to the collection of relief from liable individuals.

The York Poor Law Union (and later the Public Assistance Committee) attempted to recover money spent on relief that had been granted to the poor. They ordered individuals - usually liable relatives - to contribute towards the cost of maintaining those in receipt of poor relief. The collection of relief was administered by the Collecting Committee.

Includes order books, notices to contribute, payment ledgers, receipt and payment books, registers of insurance benefits and adjourned cases, claim made to the Ministry of Health, and Collectors' accounts and correspondence.

See also PLU/13/1 for legal cases relating to recovery of relief.

Comprises records relating to the administration of relief granted to the poor in their own home (i.e. outside the Workhouse, hence the term 'outdoor relief').

Includes application and report books, weekly outdoor relief lists, relief order books, relief granted on loan, relieving officers' receipt and expenditure books, relief in kind books and records relating to medical relief.

Comprises records relating to the admission, discharge and maintenance of inmates of the York Workhouse, which was later known at the City Institution and then The Grange). Relief granted within the workhouse was termed 'indoor relief' as opposed to 'outdoor relief' which was granted to the poor in their own homes (i.e.outside the Workhouse).

Also includes records relating to the staffing and administration of the Workhouse.

Comprises records relating to property and buildings owned or tenanted by the York Poor Law Union.

Includes records concerning the sale and purchase of properties; the erection, development and maintenance of buildings; and the financing of building projects.

Comprises records relating to legal cases pursued by or involving the York Poor Law Union.

Includes legal case papers, summonses, warrants, orders and inquests.

Comprises financial records relating to the general administration of the York Poor Law Union and Public Assistance Committee.

Includes financial statements; general ledgers; parochial ledgers; treasurers' ledgers; treasurers' receipt and payment books; invoices; petty cash books; receipts; and other account books.

For financial records relating specifically to outdoor relief see PLU/3/5

For financial records relating specifically to the collection of relief see PLU/5/10

Comprises records relating to the general administration of the York Poor Law Union and Public Assistance Committee.

Includes correspondence; statistics and returns; staffing records; government orders; and publications and other printed material.

Comprises records relating to the civil registration of births, deaths and marriages. Poor law unions were used as registration districts from 1837, when civil registration was introduced.

Includes the outgoing letterbooks of the Superintendent Registrar; and correspondence between the Superintendent Registrar of York and the Registrar General, London.

Comprises minutes of committee meetings of the York Poor Law Union (including the York Out-Relief Union, the Bishopthorpe Out-Relief Union, the Flaxton Out-Relief Union and the Escrick Out-Relief Union); and from 1930 the Public Assistance Committee.

Also includes the minutes of the Nuisance Removal Committee and the York Rural Sanitary Authority; and minutes of organisations administered by the York Poor Law Union including the York Charities Register Committee and Hodgson's Charity Committee.

Includes election campaign posters, leaflets and some published material relating to the policies of the York Labour Party.

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Various professional and personal correspondence regarding elections and various local government issues.

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Largely includes professional head-shot photographs of election candidates.

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Material relating to groups and committees within the party including Women's Council, Policy Committee and Housing Study Group.

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Records relating to the operational activities of the York Labour Party including information on members, buildings, individual ward operations, circulars and details of employing agency staff.

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Files relating to various election campaigns and includes details of candidates, publicity materials and correspondence.

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Various reports relating to conferences, campaigns and elections. Also includes annual reports of the National Labour Party.

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Account books, statements and reciepts relating to various committees of the York Labour Party.

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Minute books and files of loose minutes relating to various different sections and committees of the York Labour Party. Includes Delegate, Advisory, Executive, Women's and Young Socialists meeting minutes.

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