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

Includes manuals relating to nuclear weapons, line communication, field cable construction, Army health and rescues.

Includes correspondence relating to the activities of the Association of Municipal Corporations

Printed materials advising on the effects of nuclear war and nuclear attacks, as well as on specific preparations for attack.

Reports on the Nevada test detonation in May 1955, and the tests in the Pacific Ocean in the 1950s.

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

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.

Includes papers relating to the publicity of Civil Defence roles, and public screenings of Civil Defence films.

Includes recruitment campaign papers, information relating to canvassing for new recruits and associated correspondence.

Includes files relating to planning in the event of a nuclear attack, essential service routes, awards, radiological defence instruments and fallout and contamination.

Includes papers relating to Hungarian refugees in the York area, and the role of the York Hungarian relief committee.

Includes information about the remembrance services in 1950, 1961, 1966 and the planned commemoration of the Battle of Britain in 1966.

Includes files relating to staff and volunteer resignations and transfers of civil defence volunteers.

Includes training course materials, bulletins and additional correspondence relating to the work of the Scientific Intelligence Officers.

Includes correspondence relating to contracts open for tender, the opening of a wireless station, formation of a telephone preference scheme and papers relating to electricity.

Includes papers relating to the installation of air raid shelters in York, as well as meeting minutes, surveys and associated reports.

Includes papers relating to various quizzes open to Civil Defence members.

Includes papers relating to individual members of staff, payments, staff uniforms and the staff training college. Also includes information relating to volunteers.

Includes correspondence relating to excursions by the British Association, as well as an annual meeting programme for 1959.

Includes paperwork relating to the Technical Reconnaisance Officers, and and up to date list of staff.

Includes correspondence relating to an accident involving a local resident, negotiations for use of a building for the York Civil Defence Services club, general correspondence with the Town Clerk and a letter of complaint regarding the air raid shelter on

Contains correspondence and paperwork regarding staff training courses on a variety of subjects.

Includes correspondence regarding vehicles used for Civil Defence purposes, as well as lists of petrol used, paperwork regarding the ambulance service, correspondence regarding the use of ambulances and cars in the event of an emergency and the disposal of vehicles.

Includes details of the hierarchy of Wardens, their roles, a regional officer's study, training correspondence and papers regarding Warden numbers.

Includes files on evacuations, information and rest centres, air raid warnings, care and development, and associated correspondence.

Notebooks kept by the recorder of the Quarter Sessions of the Peace, detailing particular cases heard by the court.

Includes annual bundles of files for cases heard at the York Quarter Sessions.

Arranged roughly chronologically by date.

Press cuttings relating to civil defence air raids during World War Two (1939 - 1941).

Details recorded include: name and address of owner or agent; number of families in the house; 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.

Photographs of clearance streets and properties taken by City of York council and predecessor bodies

Inspection records typically record the following details: address of property; names of occupiers/owners; occupation of occupier; total number of occupations; rent; size and condition of each room in the house.

Comprises booklets and loose sheets of City of York House inspection sheets for properties in improvement and clearance areas. Inspection sheet typically record the following details: address of property; names of occupiers/owners; occupation of occupier; total number of occupations; rent; size and condition of each room in the house.

Comprises records of house inspections under the Housing Acts 1909 to 1925. Information recorded includes: address; name of owner and occupier; and date of inspection. May also include condition of property, sketch of property; and details of action taken. Includes records for the following streets: Aldwark; Alexandra Yard, Walmgate; Alne Terrace; Apollo Street; Bowman's Yard; Bay Horse Yard; Bishopgate Street; Bishophill; Back Butlers Buildings; Beckett's Yard; Beedham's Court; Blossom Street; Bootham Square; Bootham Row; Britton's Yard; Brunswick Row; Brunswick Terrace; Brunswick Place; Cemetery Road; Clark's Yard; Constitution Place; Clementhorpe; Carleton's Court; The Cottages, Heworth; Dale Street; Dennis Street; Dixon's Yard; Dundas Street; Ebor Court; Fetter Lane (Scrivens Court).

Comprises records relating to Hope Street, Albert Street, Richard Street, George Street, and Long Close Lane.
Includes house inspection records; particulars of occupiers (including occupation, income, and rent); lists of tenants and possible tenants for Tang Hall Estate; Detailed Statement of Hope Street Area Improvement Scheme (1924); three house inspection notebooks; agenda and minutes from the Health (Unhealthy Areas Subcommittee) Committee; correspondence, lists of owners and statistical information.

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.

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.

Comprises duplicate notices served to owners of properties signalling the Council's intention to take possession of properties.

Papers relating to the improvement of rental properties.

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.

Housing inspection reports for properties in clearance areas or under compulsory purchase orders.

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.

General administrative papers concerning clearance areas. Includes correspondence; committee papers; reports; summaries; and housing programme papers.

Clearance papers for specific slum clearance programmes in York.

town Clerk's papers concerning clearance programmes in York .

Comprises records of the system of house numbering and renumbering for York's streets.

Includes correspondence; provisional orders; plans of improvements; book of reference; lists of properties and owners/occupier; and a copy of the improvement notice in the London Gazette.

Includes correspondence; conveyances; plans; arbitration papers; valuations and other legal papers relating to the improvement of Gillygate.

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

Comprises a list of names of York Streets and a public notice.

Papers concerning the widening of streets and construction of new streets in the Castlegate and Water Lanes area.

Comprises correspondence; conveyances and other legal papers regarding the conveyance of land and street improvements in Jubbergate.

Papers relating to the widening and improvement of Little Blake Street (Duncombe Place).

Comprises plans relating to drainage and sanitary conditions of buildings; improvement and clearance plans; and plans of emergency and communal feeding facilities. Includes plans of Rowntree and Company Cocoa Works and Joseph Terry and Sons buildings.

Includes plans of civic and private buildings, parks, recreation grounds and facilities, social housing, and other property that the City of York Council and its predecessor bodies either owned or had an interest in.

Comprises plans relating to public transport (including trams)
improvements to river navigation (including canals and locks)
and bridge plans (including structural drawings).

Comprises plans of proposed new streets and roads, street widenings, changes in street layout, street resurfacing, changes to street furniture, and slum clearances.

Comprises plans relating to the construction and maintenance of sewers, culverts, and drainage pipes
and to the installation of infrastructre for utiliites, such as gas and electricity.

Comprises boundary plans of York (including plans for changes to municipal and electoral boundaries), plans of strays, parishes and other plans/maps of the York area. Also includes templates for signage.

The assessments give the names of the persons assessed and the amount payable, and also the names of the Poor Folks and the amount paid to them. 6 volumes:

1: 1632-1644 (also includes the Ainsty for 1633)
2: 1644-1652
3: 1653-1660
4: 1661-1668

5. 1669-1678
6. 1715-1810 [Entries for years 1746-1810 lists names of overseers of the poor only]

One volume:

1: 1664-1665

Papers of the Town Clerk. Comprises correspondence files, printed annual reports and minutes of the Yorkshire Casual Poor Assistance Committee, and printed Acts.

Printed annual Reports including statement of accounts and statistics

Copies of printed minutes of the meetings of the Yorkshire Casual Poor Assistance Authority

Printed sections of the Poor Law Act, 1930 relating to the Yorkshire Casual Poor Assistance Authority

Town Clerk's correspondence files. Includes incoming and outgoing correspondence relating to the Yorkshire Casual Poor Assistance Authority.

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.

The files are arranged alphabetically by resident surname.

Includes details of medication for residents amd issues experienced by the home. Arranged chronologically.

The files are arranged alphabetically by resident surname.

The files are arranged by resident surname.

The files detail petty cash given to and from residents, arranged by date.

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In 1973, composer Jack Morgan entered a contest to find a new Australia national anthem; the York Philharmonic Male Voice Choir sang on the recording. The file includes material about the history of the piece as well as two recordings.

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End-of-year accounts for the York Philharmonic Male Voice Choir. Some of the accounts include treasurers' reports made at the choir's annual general meetings.

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The income and expenditure books are volumes with handwritten accounts of cash income and expenditures.

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The travel financial accounts and documents include a range of records relating to the planning of various trips taken by the York Philharmonic Male Voice Choir, as well as by choirs visiting York.

The files include accounts and financial documents but also include a range of other documents relating to the planning of trips. These include meeting minutes, correspondence, newsletters, itineraries and accommodation arrangements. There is also some ephemera from the trips, such as song lists and concert posters.

Ephemera related to some of the visits in this sub-series can be found with the choir memorabilia (reference: YPC/8/1) and travel memorabilia (reference: YPC/8/2).

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Certificates awarded to members for service to the York Philharmonic Male Voice Choir.

Certificates from singing contests can be found with the contest certificates (reference: YPC/7/2).

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Brochures, books, pamphlets and postcards relating to travel. Related material can also be found with the travel memorabilia (reference: YPC/8/2).

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Magazines produced by the York Philharmonic Male Voice Choir.

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The Christmas concert material relates mainly to Carols in Kirkgate, which was established in 1962 by Robert Patterson, York Castle Museum curator, and Richard B Lister, musical director for the York Philharmonic Male Voice Choir. Carols in Kirkgate was eventually succeeded by Christmas in Fossgate in 2013, followed by annual Christmas Traditions concerts in 2016.

Recordings of Carols in Kirkgate performances can be found with the recordings (reference: YPC/11)

Collection of title deeds and associated documents relating to the ownership of a property on Colliergate. The property is described as being on the east side of Colliergate, with rooms at one time made into a shop. Later documents describe the property as being partly adjoining to and partly in front of the Old Sand Hill Inn in Colliergate. As well as showing the transfers of ownership, some of the documents also provide details as to the occupants of the building, where this differed from the owners.

Some of the deeds have been numbered consecutively, possibly by a legal professional using the deeds to evidence of title for the property.

Contains deeds relating to land and property associated with a house on Lendal Street, including part of the city ramparts, part of the city moat, and property near to St. Leonard's Hospital and the Mint Yard. Also includes a schedule of deeds compiled in 1802. All of the deeds in this series appear on this list, but the list also includes deeds which are not present. The deeds appear to have been brought together to provide evidence of Mr Cayley's title to the property.