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Job file
BLK/1/38/1 · File · 1934-1947
Part of Brierley, Leckenby, Keighley and Groom

Includes correspondence, plans, detailed estimates, update reports and legal and financial information.

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Job file
BLK/1/38/2 · File · 1946-1949
Part of Brierley, Leckenby, Keighley and Groom

Includes correspondence, plans, detailed estimates, update reports and legal and financial information.

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Job file
BLK/1/39/1 · Item · 1934-1935
Part of Brierley, Leckenby, Keighley and Groom

Includes correspondence, tender documents and specifications for work carried out to build new vestries at the church.

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Wistow Church
BLK/1/40 · Sub-series · 1936-1937
Part of Brierley, Leckenby, Keighley and Groom

At present this collection comprises one job file regarding work carried out.

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Job file
BLK/1/40/1 · File · 1936-1937
Part of Brierley, Leckenby, Keighley and Groom

Includes correspondence, plans, detailed estimates, update reports and legal and financial information.

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Job file
BLK/1/42/1 · File · 1907-1932
Part of Brierley, Leckenby, Keighley and Groom

Includes correspondence, plans, detailed estimates, update reports and legal and financial information.

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Job file
BLK/1/43/1 · File · 1934-1935
Part of Brierley, Leckenby, Keighley and Groom

Includes receipts, estimates and correspondence regarding new cloaks and repairs to the door hood.

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Kepwick Hall, Thirsk
BLK/1/44 · Sub-series · 1932-1939
Part of Brierley, Leckenby, Keighley and Groom

At present this collection comprises one job file regarding work carried out, subdivided into two parts by the archivist.

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Job file
BLK/1/44/1 · File · 1932-1939
Part of Brierley, Leckenby, Keighley and Groom

Includes correspondence, specifications for works, receipts and additional financial papers relating to the work carried out.

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Job file
BLK/1/45/1 · File · 1924-1957
Part of Brierley, Leckenby, Keighley and Groom

Includes correspondence, specifications for works, bills of quantities, receipts and additional financial papers relating to the work carried out between 1924 and 1926 and again between 1955 and 1957. The contents have been subdivided by the archivist at the time of cataloguing, however the original order has been maintained.

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Job file
BLK/1/46/1 · File · 1935-1937
Part of Brierley, Leckenby, Keighley and Groom

Includes correspondence, bills and quote for work carried out on the church.

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Job file
BLK/1/47/1 · File · 1933-1934
Part of Brierley, Leckenby, Keighley and Groom

Includes correspondence, specifications, articles of agreement, accounts and receipts for work carried out.

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Hob Moor Estate
BLK/1/48 · Sub-series · 1933-1934
Part of Brierley, Leckenby, Keighley and Groom

At present this collection comprises one job file regarding work carried out.

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Hob Moor Estate
BLK/1/48/1 · File · 1933-1934
Part of Brierley, Leckenby, Keighley and Groom

Includes specifications, correspondence and plan regarding the building of the estate, most of which comes from the Bradford Second Equitable Benefit Building Society. Also includes one specification for a new Midland Bank premises in Saddler Street, Durham, which may have been misfiled.

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Salton Church
BLK/1/49 · Sub-series · 1932-1937
Part of Brierley, Leckenby, Keighley and Groom

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Salton Church
BLK/1/49/1 · File · 1932-1937
Part of Brierley, Leckenby, Keighley and Groom

Includes correspondence and handwritten pencil notes and plans regarding the church. Also includes one document relating to Wistow Church, which may have been misfiled.

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BLK/1/51/1 · File · 1958-1964
Part of Brierley, Leckenby, Keighley and Groom

Includes correspondence, estimates, plans and specifications regarding the proposed works (including details of utilities), as well as tender documentation and photographic negatives.

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Cheshire Homes: Alne
BLK/1/53/1 · File · 1959-1962
Part of Brierley, Leckenby, Keighley and Groom

Includes correspondence, specifications and plans regarding work carried out (including storm damage).

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Job file
BLK/1/8/1 · File · 1957-1960
Part of Brierley, Leckenby, Keighley and Groom

Includes correspondence, detailed estimates, update reports and legal and financial information. Also includes some magazines for proposed fittings.

Correspondence files
BLK/2 · Series
Part of Brierley, Leckenby, Keighley and Groom

Correspondence files of partners and staff members, unrelated to specific schemes of work. Please see file level descriptions for more detailed information about the contents of this series.

Employees
BLK/2/3 · Sub-series · 1957-1961
Part of Brierley, Leckenby, Keighley and Groom

File of correspondence relating to employees of the business and staffing matters. Also includes some partner correspondence - business and personal - and papers relating to a private carriageway between Newland Park Drive and Green Dykes Lane.

Employees
BLK/2/3/1 · File · 1957-1959
Part of Brierley, Leckenby, Keighley and Groom

File of correspondence relating to employees of the business and staffing matters. Also includes some partner correspondence - business and personal - and papers relating to a private carriageway between Newland Park Drive and Green Dykes Lane.

Brierley Groom
Harold Edgar Bloor papers
BLO · Fonds · February 1907-28 September 1954

Includes general files, patent specifications, prototypes, documents relating to H E Bloor's interests, documents relating to the gas industry in York and elsewhere, the Gas Undertakings Bill 1934, newspaper cuttings and personal papers. See file level descriptions for more detailed information about this collection.

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Bloor; Harold Edgar (?-?)
General files
BLO/1 · Series · 1912-1950s
Part of Harold Edgar Bloor papers

General files on a variety of topics retained by Harold Edgar Bloor during the course of his working life.

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BLO/1/1 · File · 1912-1914
Part of Harold Edgar Bloor papers

Includes report of the General Committee to the Supporters of the National Gas Congress and Exhibition 1913, statement of accounts 1912-1914 and list of contributions from gas undertakings.

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La Louviere
BLO/1/10 · File · 1932-1933
Part of Harold Edgar Bloor papers

Regarding the Klonne gasholder explosion at La Louviere in Belgium 1932. Includes correspondence, newspaper cuttings, reports, reports of experiments carried out, pressure charts and drawings of details of the gasholder.

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La Louviere Gas Explosion
BLO/1/12 · File · 1932-1933
Part of Harold Edgar Bloor papers

Some correspondence but mainly expert reports from a variety of sources (including H.E.Bloor) on the inspections at La Louviere and suggestions regarding possible causes of the explosion.

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BLO/1/13 · File · 1933
Part of Harold Edgar Bloor papers

Hand written report on the probable sequence of events that led to the explosion, with calculations to support the theory.

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BLO/1/14 · File · 1932-1933
Part of Harold Edgar Bloor papers

In July 1932 a joint committee of representatives of the National Gas Council and the British Commercial Gas Association was set up to consider the supply of gas to Government Departments, County Councils etc.

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Humidification
BLO/1/15 · File · 1933
Part of Harold Edgar Bloor papers

Regarding the invention of humidification by means of domestic heating apparatus by H.E.Bloor. Hand written and typed copies of a description of the apparatus.

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Anti Kink Invention
BLO/1/16 · File · 1933-1941
Part of Harold Edgar Bloor papers

Provisional patent specification for 'Improvements in or relating to cinematographic films and cameras' i.e. a camera producing three-dimensional films. Also includes correspondence regarding a humidification / air-conditioning invention, patent specification.

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Thorp, Franklin. Robot Sign
BLO/1/17 · File · 1933-1934
Part of Harold Edgar Bloor papers

Includes correspondence regarding a robot illuminated sign lit by gas, patent specification and some correspondence regarding the cigarette paper made from tobacco stalks.

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BLO/1/18 · File · 1933-1935
Part of Harold Edgar Bloor papers

Correspondence with Franklin Thorp (Engineers, Patentees and Scientific Apparatus Manufacturers) regarding H. E. Bloor’s idea for the manufacture of cigarette paper from tobacco (samples included) and their unsuccessful attempts to sell the idea.

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BLO/1/20 · File · 1934
Part of Harold Edgar Bloor papers

Correspondence between George Beloe Ellis, Solicitor and Chartered Patent Agent, London and H.E.Bloor regarding a licence agreement with The Horstmann Gear Company Limited, Bath for the production of the Nublor Pilot Caps invented by H.E.Bloor.

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BLO/1/21 · File · 1934-1953
Part of Harold Edgar Bloor papers

Includes correspondence between H.E.Bloor and the Horstmann Gear Co. Ltd. regarding the production under licence and the naming of the Newblor Pilot Caps, as well as 1952/53 letters regarding royalty payments.

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The Horstmann Gear Co. Ltd.
BLO/1/22 · File · 1934-1949
Part of Harold Edgar Bloor papers

Correspondence regarding the price of the Newblor Pilot Cap 1934-1935. Also includes a letter explaining the make up of the Horstmann Gear Co. Ltd. 1949.

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Theatre
BLO/1/23 · File · 1934-1937
Part of Harold Edgar Bloor papers

Regarding the York Citizens Theatre Trust set up to run the Theatre Royal. H.E.Bloor was a shareholder and Director of the Trust. Includes minutes of meetings, correspondence, newspaper cuttings and Memorandum and Articles of Association.

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BLO/1/24 · File · 1934-1952
Part of Harold Edgar Bloor papers

Provisional Patent Specification for a clip for attaching a flexible tube to the nipple of a gas/water fitting. Also includes correspondence with prospective purchasers of his gas by-pass and the extension of the patent on it.

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BLO/1/25 · File · 1933-1935
Part of Harold Edgar Bloor papers

Correspondence regarding an arrangement between H. E. Bloor and Bentley Engineering for H. Bentley to rent space at Minster Engineering for storage and manufacturing. H. Bentley runs into financial difficulties, apparently owing H. E. Bloor money.

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Emergency Organisations
BLO/1/30 · File · 1940
Part of Harold Edgar Bloor papers

Circular letter sent to York factories and engineering firms trying to set up an 'Emergency Services Organisation' where men, materials and tools which would be pooled in order to get a factory or business back into production as quickly as possible.

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Benzole Committee
BLO/1/31 · File · 1940-1943
Part of Harold Edgar Bloor papers

Committee member H. E. Bloor. Minutes of Committee meetings and correspondence.

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Distressed Gas Undertakings
BLO/1/32 · File · 1941
Part of Harold Edgar Bloor papers

Regarding gas companies in financial difficulties. Some correspondence but mainly minutes of meetings of the Gas Council (H.E.Bloor – Member), Negotiating Committee of the National Gas Council (H.E.Bloor – Member).

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