Original artwork created by members of the group in various calligraphy styles.
Some events calendars are printed as separate leaflets, some printed in newsletters. Original typescript letters, newsletters became booklets in 1995, and later included examples of calligraphy and photographs of events and members. Some newsletters include inserts relating to workshops, events, exhibitions, and meetings.
Administrative papers created and collected by membership secretary's.
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.
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.
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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)
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Magazines produced by the York Philharmonic Male Voice Choir.
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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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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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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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The income and expenditure books are volumes with handwritten accounts of cash income and expenditures.
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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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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.
Two exercise books containing rough notes, memoranda, and draft agenda and minutes relating to the administration of the society.
Minutes of committee meetings of the Compulsory Section, which was established following the passing of the National Insurance Act of 1911 which introduced compulsory health insurance for workers. The 'Compulsory section' was established to deal with members who qualified for the national scheme to allow the society to administer these benefits to them. The society became an Approved Society for the purposes of this administration.
Minutes of meetings of the Committee of Management, with associated papers.
Volumes containing minutes of meetings, memoranda, and other notices realting to the organisation of the society, including the management of finances and the society's vairous funds.
These volumes are copies of those kept by the Senior Stewardess, however some information may differ.
Volumes containing minutes of meetings, memoranda, and other notices realting to the organisation of the society, including the management of finances and the society's vairous funds.
Personal papers from individual members, including payment cards and reciepts, membership subscription cards, correspondence, and other papers.
Register showing personal information about members, and recording their regular subscription payments. Registers after 1912 do not include compulsory section members.
Three copies of the Register of General Members of the Annuity Fund, labelled Senior Stewardess no.1, Senior Trustee no.2, and Junior Trustee no.3. Although these registers are copies of one another, the information included for each member may not be an exact duplicate and therefore unique information may be included in each register.
Column headings included in each register: Time of admission; name; from what school; age; by what member reccommended; married and when; to whom married; became a widow; withdrawn and when; expelled and when; re-admitted and when; dead and when.
Running registers of members of the society showing personal information about the candidates and their membership. Admissions registers no. 2 appears to be a copy admission register no.1, however the information included for each member is not an exact duplicate and therefore unique information is included in each register. It is likely that admission register no.1 was kept and maintained by the Senior Stewardess, while admission register no. 2 was kept and maintained by the Junior Stewardess.
Various cash books showing society expenses, including administrative expenses and welfare gifts to members.
Receipts, correspondence, and papers relating to investments made with the Society's money. Principally includes receipts for the purchase of government stocks.
Debit and credit accounts, also including some information about investments.
YFF/FR/5/2 and YFF/FR/5/3 also include registers of of those in receipt of annuities with personal information about those members, and the amount of benefits received.
Income and expenditure accounts, with details of membership subscriptions.
Debit and credit accounts. YFF/FR/3/1 also includes order and resolutions, 1796-1834.
Debit and credit account books realting to both the General Fund and the Private Fund. Some books include information about investments and about discretionary payements made to members.
Debit and credit account books principally relating to the General Fund, but also including accounts for the Private Fund to 1796. Some books include information about investments and about payments to members.
Certificates for the nomination of beneficiaries of death benefits.
Contains accounts registers and pay tickets
Contains accounts registers, and payment receipt and summary cards.
Contains accounts registers, and payment receipt and summary cards.
Contains an account register. From 1912 pensions and annuities were merged into one 'Pensions' benefit.
The files detail petty cash given to and from residents, arranged by date.
The files are arranged by resident surname.
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.
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.
Town Clerk's correspondence files. Includes incoming and outgoing correspondence relating to the Yorkshire Casual Poor Assistance Authority.
Printed sections of the Poor Law Act, 1930 relating to the Yorkshire Casual Poor Assistance Authority
Copies of printed minutes of the meetings of the Yorkshire Casual Poor Assistance Authority
Printed annual Reports including statement of accounts and statistics
Papers of the Town Clerk. Comprises correspondence files, printed annual reports and minutes of the Yorkshire Casual Poor Assistance Committee, and printed Acts.
One volume:
1: 1664-1665
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
- 1669-1678
- 1715-1810 [Entries for years 1746-1810 lists names of overseers of the poor only]
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.
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 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 public transport (including trams)
improvements to river navigation (including canals and locks)
and bridge plans (including structural drawings).
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 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.
Papers relating to the widening and improvement of Little Blake Street (Duncombe Place).
Comprises correspondence; conveyances and other legal papers regarding the conveyance of land and street improvements in Jubbergate.
Papers concerning the widening of streets and construction of new streets in the Castlegate and Water Lanes area.
Comprises a list of names of York Streets and a public notice.
Comprises sales particulars and a printed public notice regarding land surplus to the street widening of Skeldergate.
Includes correspondence; conveyances; plans; arbitration papers; valuations and other legal papers relating to the improvement of Gillygate.
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.
Comprises records of the system of house numbering and renumbering for York's streets.
town Clerk's papers concerning clearance programmes in York .
Clearance papers for specific slum clearance programmes in York.
General administrative papers concerning clearance areas. Includes correspondence; committee papers; reports; summaries; and housing programme papers.
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.
Housing inspection reports for properties in clearance areas or under compulsory purchase orders.
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.
Papers relating to the improvement of rental properties.
Comprises duplicate notices served to owners of properties signalling the Council's intention to take possession of properties.
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 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.
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 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 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.
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.
Photographs of clearance streets and properties taken by City of York council and predecessor bodies
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.
Press cuttings relating to civil defence air raids during World War Two (1939 - 1941).
Arranged roughly chronologically by date.
Includes annual bundles of files for cases heard at the York Quarter Sessions.
Sin títuloNotebooks kept by the recorder of the Quarter Sessions of the Peace, detailing particular cases heard by the court.
Sin títuloIncludes files on evacuations, information and rest centres, air raid warnings, care and development, and associated correspondence.
Includes details of the hierarchy of Wardens, their roles, a regional officer's study, training correspondence and papers regarding Warden numbers.
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.
Contains correspondence and paperwork regarding staff training courses on a variety of subjects.
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
Includes paperwork relating to the Technical Reconnaisance Officers, and and up to date list of staff.
Includes correspondence relating to excursions by the British Association, as well as an annual meeting programme for 1959.
Includes papers relating to individual members of staff, payments, staff uniforms and the staff training college. Also includes information relating to volunteers.
Includes papers relating to various quizzes open to Civil Defence members.