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Full version of the Electoral rolls. Contains all voters names and addresses.

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Includes newspaper cuttings relating to the York Childcare campaign and York Childcare Ltd, and background research.

Includes photographs of the Melbourne Public House rugby team, veteran workers at Craven's confectioners, a group in a charabanc, George Henry Steel of Walmgate, Miss Annie Skelsher and a family group.

At present this series only comprises one advertising leaflet for the business.

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Photographs of Nellie Battrick, her employers and surroundings in India, including the home in which they lived.

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These guides were produced by a number of different parties but retained by Rural Action Yorkshire in the course of their work.

Comprises stand alone images relating to health education and health promotion. Includes lantern slides, glass plate negatives and photographs.

Includes plans of the improvement area; schedules of required works; Bye-Law for preventing overcrowding; summaries of area (including houses to be demolished and level of overcrowding); correspondence; reports to the Unhealthy Areas Sub-Committees; summaries of overcrowded houses (including size of bedrooms and numbers of occupants); letters to establish owners; Layerthorpe Clearance Area: reports of the Medical Officer of Health and the Chief Sanitary Inspector used at an Enquiry [8-9 Mar 1932}]; papers concerning various properties in Layerthorpe and Bilton Street belonging to one owner; also draft summaries and notes/

Notes on the history of the family.

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At present this series only comprises one general ledger.

Copies of the constitution of the River Foss Society.

Notes on various Yorkshire families, some including family trees.

Includes deeds, sale documentation, leases and bonds from a variety of different properties. Also includes marriage agreements and legal papers relating to a number of parties. Please see file and item descriptions for more information about the contents of this series.

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Collection of papers relating to the Manors of Strensall and Kirk Deighton and Wigginton. Some of the documents are in Latin and therefore difficult to read, but most appear to be legal transactions.

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Documents on various themes, from estate management to Arthur Young's Easter Tour.

Various documents created and recieved by Sir William Strickland.

Photographs of York and the surrounding area, primarily gifted to the Archives as small accessions. Please see the individual descriptions for more information. The items in this series were received at various dates but were all catalogued during 2020.

Comprises contracts for tradesmen; certificates of amounts due from tradesmen; bills of costs from tradesmen; account of bills; cash paid and total costs of buildings.

Includes project job files and architectural drawings, arranged by project. Please see sub-series and file level descriptions for more detailed information about the contents of this collection.

Items of stationary used by G W Hardings during the course of their business. Includes parcel delivery slips, Lion Brand newswrappers, printed postcards, blank order book, trademark label for Irish Linen, receipt and branded carrier bags. Also includes one page of letterhead paper and one evaluaton pro forma.

Pattern books for various different clothing designs including trousers, waistcoats, dress wear, skirts and clothing alterations. Also includes club colour books for designs for Universities, military, clubs and society dress.

Includes copies of leases and releases, transfer of lease, mortgage by demise of lands and abstract. Also includes one document relating to a legal case between Cayley and Thompson, and others.

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Includes copy marriage settlement, lease and release, copy of common recovery, mortgage, note regarding the will of Jerom Dring, surrender and schedules of title deeds. Many of the documents relate to property in Thorpe Green and Little Ouseburn. Please see file and item level descriptions for more detailed information about the contents of this series.

These legal documents were found during the course of cataloguing, and are not thought to have been listed elsewhere. Please see item level descriptions for more detailed information about the contents of this series.

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Comprises house inspection records for Layerthorpe; Hallfield Road; Hallfield Terrace; Duke of York Street; Hart's Terrace; Kidd's Terrace; St Cuthbert's Road; Chicory Yard; and Redeness Street.

At present this collection only comprises one photograph of the team receiving a new trophy for the league championship. The trophy was given by Lord Mayor Oscar Rowntree.

Includes family photographs of Surtees Hornby and relatives, and some landscape scenes. Some of the images have been captioned, but the majority are currently unidentified. All the images were removed from a photograph album.

Includes manuscripts and typescripts of works created by Stuart. The collection has been arranged by work.

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At present this collection only comprises one set of typescript lists of latest books supplied to the library.

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Volume 1 containes customers with surnames A-L, and volume 2 contains surnames M-Z.

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Material relating to the family history research into the Fairbank family including newspaper cuttings, research notes, correspondence and sketches.

Currently comprises one list of member names, addresses and subscription paid to the Club.

Photographs of Sydney John Holmes, particularly during his war service. Please see item level descriptions for more detailed information about the contents of this series.

General subsidies and assessments. For specific military subsidies and assessments please see Y/ORD/4/2.

Includes documents, leaflets and other published materials which were not intended to be sold. See individual items entries for more detailed information.

Comprises 20L, 10L, 5L and 2L fuel can measures; 2 boxes of pipettes; 56 LB weight; and 2 inspectors' scales (one labelled 'York' and one labelled 'Hull')

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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.

Promotional brochure detailing the history of York Mansion House. Created for commerical purposes, advertising York Mansion House as a venue for occasions and events. Also contains images.

Items relating to the will and bequests of Eustachius Strickland.

These numbered volumes contain newspaper clippings and handwritten notes, and are arranged by theme. Titles include actors, glass painting, oil and china painting, cloud waves and glossary.

Manuscripts created by John Alder Knowles in the course of his work and covering a variety of different subjects, including glass making, books and writers.

This series includes notebooks which cannot be attributed to either John Ward Knowles or John Alder Knowles specifically, as well as magazines and prints which were retained by one of the parties for future reference.

Records produced by the Publiciy Department of local government..

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..

Incomplete series. Editions 2, 3, 4, 17, 19 and 20 only.

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Ticket for 10th Annual dinner and rally banners.

Includes material pattern book, price and time lists as well as additional paper patterns for making items of clothing

Includes one photograph of Robert Benton with his wife and eldest son (father of the depositor), one photograph of Robert Benton with officers from his regiment, two photographs of him recovering from injuries sustained in 1918 and one photograph taken after the First World War. Digital copies of all these items also exist.

Includes one photograph album showing the interior and exterior of the factory, and one photograph possibly of Terrence Jeffery and his wife.

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This series currently only comprises one volume of handwritten course notes, presumably from the 1930s.

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Printed publications produced by George Benson during the course of his lifetime. Please see file and item level descriptions for more detailed information about the contents of this series.

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Includes one advertising notice for Kid Lawton's School of Genuine Fighters, typescript note of some of Fred Hawksby's fights, and letter to 'Mr Hawksley' from J J Paget, Boxing Promoter, 1938.

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Inspections and reports on drains, sanitary facilities and food hygiene.

Includes photographs of various Hardings premises, as well as details from some window displays. Also contains glass plates relating to the 'Right of Light' legal dispute around the redevelopment of the High Ousegate and Coppergate site. Please see item level descriptions for more detailed information about the contents of this series.

Includes an indexed list of customers with details of what purchased. Please note, only numerical references are given to purchases rather than full details. Contains names and addresses.

At present this series only includes hand made exampkes of motor mower repair order forms for use by Minster Engineering.

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Includes legal paperwork relating to the custody of Eliza Raine of Clifton, spinster and lunactic. Please see item level descriptions for more detailed information about the contents of this series.

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• Records relating to licencing and oversight of alehouses, brewers and malsters.

Many items in this collection were deposited in the York Reference Library primarily, by a number of different people, many of whom are now unknown. The cuttings are arranged into series by the year in which they were catalogued.

At present this collection only comprises one booklet entitled 'Snippets of Strensall Oral History.'

Various antiquarian documents collected by Eustachius Strickland, including notes on the various world histories, extracts from people's memoirs, and correspondence.

Brochure detailing the history of York Mansion House. Also contains images

Notebooks containing street names and house numbers

Comprises house inspection records for Bilton Street, Duke of York Street, Cross Court, Hallfield Road (no. 15 only)and Redeness Street (no. 56 only). Records include house inspection sheets; notifications of drain inspections; correspondence; recommended works and notices to execute works; and small scale-plans for some properties.

Card indexes containing member names and addresses. There are no indexes for area 6 (Acomb; Boroughbridge Road).

The cards are arranged by area and then alphabetically, save that junior members are in a separate box. The areas were numbered as follows:

1. Bootham; Clifton
2. Clarence Street; St John's; Heworth/Nuncaster
3. Hull Road; Tang Hall
4. Fishergate; Fulford
5. Bishopthorpe Road; Dringhouses; Holgate; The Mount
6. Acomb; Boroughbridge Road
7. Central York
8. Outside York and up to a radius of 10 miles
9. University campus
10. Rest of the world (includes Leeds and Western Australia)
    Juniors All areas

Photographs and oral history interview and full transcription taken as part of the York: Gateway to History project in 2014-2015.

Includes one newspaper cutting from an unidentified newspaper relating to the death of Mr J S Gans, Chairman and Managing Director of Gansolite (c.August 1953), and one article from the Yorkshire Evening Press showcasing the work of one family of employees of Gansolite (22 March 1988).

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At present this series only comprises photographs of Cyril Deighton's war service in Egypt and Palestine during the Second World War.

At present this series includes one page of typescript notes relating to key dates in the history of Rowntrees.

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Includes paperwork for suppliers of joinery goods, roofing and tiles, cement, lime, sand, gravel, bricks, plumbing and heating, public utilities, decoration and extra and specific items.

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The materials are arranged chronologically.

Includes printed advertisements for Hardings and their products, and shop notices advertising particular products or events. Please see item level descriptions for more detailed information about the contents of this series.

Includes one photocopied article on Hardings Linen Drapers, and one York Press supplement entitled 'York in 1893.'

Letters written by William Etty and bequeathed to Explore York Archives by William Dixon-Smith, researcher and author. One letter is signed and dated 20th August 1838, and the other is unsigned but written at Brighton, c.1847.

Notes for talks delivered by Alan H Audin. Please see file level descriptions for more detailed information about the contents of this series.

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Includes one volume of accounts and bundles of receipts, invoices and cheque stubs arranged chronologically.

Includes valuation of a property in Sergeants Inn, paperwork relating to an organ, correspondence received by William Gray, and between William and E Gray, as well as receipts. One receipt relates to the estate of Mrs Hanley. Please see file and item level descriptions for more detailed information about the contents of this series, and please be aware that number 5 in the series was not used.

Includes an appointment of Dr Welbeloved and Dr Arne relating to the rebuilding of Serjeants Inn on Fleet Street which was destroyed in the recent fire; legal answers of Robert Hitch in response to a bill of complaint; observations relating to leases of Serjeants Inn, and later documents detailing information contained in other 16th an 17th century leases. Also includes information on leases, a petition, correspondence, a report, bill and Act of Parliament. Please see file and item level descriptions for more detailed information about the contents of this series.

This series includes original black and white and colour designs for stained glass windows, war memorials and church fittings carried out by J W Knowles & Son, as well as photographs of some glass panels. Many of the designs have been mounted onto card and are captioned.

Series of printing blocks retained by J W Knowles & Sons, depicting various stained glass windows, including York Minster.

These items were not created by Knowles family themselves, but relate to the family home and business premises in Stonegate, York. They were created by a local researcher in the 1990s, and gifted to the family shortly afterwards.

At present this collection only comprises research notes on the Mills family of Thornton le Clay, farming in Strensall, listed buildings in Strensall and the old school. Also includes a transcript of 'Strensall: a History'.

Various items relating to the history of St. Mary's Abbey.

Documents containing information on botany and flowers.

Comprises correspondence and copy details of sale of property

Correspondence relating to the boarding out of children in foster homes and the Children and Young Persons Act, 1933
See also minutes of the Children's/Boarding Out Committee ref PLU/1/6