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Jorvik Viking Centre
CUT/2/404 · File · 1983-1984
Part of Press cuttings

Includes: facts, pamphlet, Yorkshire Evening Press Special feature 11/04/84, and assorted cuttings.

York Courant
CUT/2/84 · File · 14 November 1839-22 July 1847
Part of Press cuttings

Copies of the full newspaper.

York TV
CUT/2/94 · File · 2004
Part of Press cuttings

Two copies of the supplement launching the local television station.

York Minster news
CUT/3/11 · File · 1973-1975
Part of Press cuttings

Editions leading on York Minster scaffolding 'eyesore' and St William's College in EAHY.

York Community File
CVS/1/1 · File · 1984-1988
Part of York Centre for Voluntary Service

Incomplete set. Indexed listing of voluntary organisations in York, and other local agencies. Includes 1984 and three editions of 1987-1988 only.

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York Mystery Plays
DCL/1/1 · File · 1980
Part of David Clarke papers

Includes information relating to sponsorship opportunities for the 1980 York Festival and Mystery Plays.

York Mystery Plays
DCL/1/2 · File · 1969-1980
Part of David Clarke papers

Contains a stage plan, correspondence and photos; magazines and press cuttings; press releases, cast lists, detailed timescales and stage directions; information and correspondence about the 'medieval spectacular' in the Minster on 14 June 1980. Also includes Mystery Play programmes for 1969, 1973 and 1976.

York Mystery Plays
DCL/1/4 · File · 1984
Part of David Clarke papers

Contains typed press releases and other publicity material relating to the 1984 York Festival and Mystery Plays, as well as a list of musicians and participating theatre groups.

DCL/1/6 · File · 1984
Part of David Clarke papers

Contains press cuttings and other material relating to the York Festival 1983-4. The items are collated in a volume of York Living History magazine (May 1983).

York Festival
DCL/1/7 · File · 1984
Part of David Clarke papers

Contains a programme; audition and rehearsal material; some scripts and cast lists; miscellaneous correspondence (including police memo and agreement that Hercules the performing bear would appear), and detailed plans for the action in the Minster.

York Festival
DCL/1/8 · File · 1980
Part of David Clarke papers

Contains programmes, photos, correspondence (including with the BBC) and press cuttings; leaflets and other information about activities in and around York during the Festival; letters from children at the Bar Grammar School, Blossom Street; a bookmark created by B. Gabrielow and signed by a large number of participants; and caricature drawing of David Clarke.

Also includes a number of outsized photographs from the Festival taken by David Dore.

Please note, part of this file is outsize.

Saint Joan, York
DCL/2/2 · File · 1985
Part of David Clarke papers

Contains correspondence related to the production at the Guildhall, individual slips recording cast details, minutes of meetings of the Friends of York Festival, press cuttings (photocopies), stage plans and rehearsal schedules. There is some information on the cancellation of the play due to poor ticket sales, and then its reinstatement at the insistence of the cast.

Also includes one outsized poster for the performance, and one set of mock-ups for a poster.

Please note, part of this file is outsize.

DCL/2/3 · File · 1981
Part of David Clarke papers

Contains programmes for other son et lumiere shows in various locations, including York Minster 1972. Also includes correspondence relating to planned son et lumiere shows at York Minster in 1982 and 1983 (which it appears did not take place).

DCL/2/6 · File · 1981
Part of David Clarke papers

Contains correspondence, press cuttings, photos and costume designs; accounts, and a signed agreement between David Clarke and the Friends of York Festival to direct the play for a fee of £800 and expenses up to £500. Also includes one poster for the performance.

York Festival photographs
DCL/3/1 · File · 1980
Part of David Clarke papers

Contains three smaller envelopes with colour and black and white photos, three loose photographs, two postcards of York, and a set of six slides showing the Mystery Plays.

York Festival photographs
DCL/3/2 · File · c.1980-c.1984
Part of David Clarke papers

Contains c.300 small colour photos of various Festival activities, including Hercules the performing bear, and giant puppets.

York Festival photographs
DCL/3/3 · File · c.1980-c.1985
Part of David Clarke papers

Contains
Group of c.30 colour photos (7'x5') of medieval fair in York Minster (prob. 1980);
Group of c.150 square (5'x5') colour photos of performers in costume in various settings in York;
Group of c.60 colour photos (6'x4') of Murder in the Cathedral (1981);
Group of c.30 colour photos (6'x4') of Saint Joan (1985).

Wartime correspondence
DEI/1/2 · File · 1942-1944
Part of Cyril Deighton papers

This bundle of correspondence was written by Cyril Deighton to his parents and his sister Eva during his wartime service in the Second World War. The correspondence relates to his war service in Palestine, and there is a partial summary of some of the let

Wayzgoose booklets
DEL/29 · File · 1901-1910
Part of Delittle Wood Letter Manufacturers

Incomplete series of booklets relating to Delittle staff outings, primarily to Goathland and Whitby.

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DEP/3 · File · 6 July 1844
Part of Deposited Plans

Plan, section and book of reference for a deviation of the Rillington to Pickering branch of the York & North Midland Railway, in the vicinity of Low Marishes. This is a copy of a plan deposited with the Parliamentary Committee considering the York to Scarborough Railway Bill and the change was incorporated into the Act.

Engineer: John Robison Wright

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DEP/72 · File · 30 November 1898
Part of Deposited Plans

Three copies of plans and a Book of Reference to accompany a bill for various railways (including the King Edward Bridge over the River Tyne at Newcastle; widening of the East Coast main line north of York; new roads and bridges; purchase of additional lands; and the vesting of the North Holderness Light Railway in the North Eastern Railway.

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DEP/74 · File · 29 November 1900
Part of Deposited Plans

Two copies of plans and a book of reference to accompany a Bill for various railways; new roads and bridges; purchase of additional lands and widening of part of the land from York to Church Fenton. Most of the land purchases appear to relate to York.

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DFP/1 · File · 1880-1889
Part of Dodsworth Family papers

This collection comprises one volume which contains accounts and legacies relating to various members of the Dodsworth family including Lucy Dodsworth, Amy Dodsworth, Clare Dodsworth, Benjamin Dodsworth, G.P. Dodsworth, E.F. Dodsworth, G.E. Dodsworth and P. Dodsworth. One of the inserted sheets is a letter to William and Edwin Gray dated 1885.

Seen newspaper
DIO/1/1 · File · November 1990-June 1997
Part of Diocese of York

Incomplete series.

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Millennium Kneeler project
DNG/1 · File · 2004
Part of Dunnington Needlework Group

Includes detailed information about the project, including financial information, as well as photographs of participants and the project outcomes.

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