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Programmes for the speech days held in March 1953 and March 1959.

The pamphlet is entitled 'A friendly Parting Shot at the Defeated and Discomfited Free Library Committee'. Also includes a letter of condolence to W.W. Morrell.

3 copies.

The items are stored together in a red folder.

Includes the following: 1896 letter from W. Morrell to A.H. Furnish regarding the Technical Instruction Committee; 1967 correspondence between a Mr Carl Vitz of Cincinnati and the city librarian; 1936 copies correspondence written by the city librarian informing of the death of A.H. Furnish; two York Public Library bookmarks including advertisements (circa 1939-45 - advertisements include references to the ARP); correspondence between the city librarian and a P.G. Gill regarding a thesis on the formation of public libraries; and notes on the Benn Figures relating to public libraries (1935)

A large collection of wartime correspondence to and from the York Public Library. Includes frequent mentions of war-work and wartime issues (esp. a publicity document with corrections dated 24/3/41, explaining the role of public libraries in the war effort). Also present are letters regarding loans of books to/use of library by local military units and internment camps alike, and requests for assistance in setting up Unit libraries. There are also several mentions of library-hosted entertainment for local Forces men and women, and requests for books relating specifically to war-work (munitions, nurseries). There are mentions of W.V.S. and A.R.P. work in/around the library; and of the various uses of the building as part of the war effort (for community work; welfare work; outreach; and emergency organisation, both as a Wardens' Post and, from letters dated January 1941, as an 'After Blitz' Organisation Centre'). A number of letters dealing with adaptations to the building, such as the installation of an emergency telephone and the addition of bomb-proofing materials (letter dated 23rd October 1942 from the City Librarian to the City Englineer); plus a number of mentions of rationing (fuel, staff uniform coupons). Later correspondence concerns the post-war cleanup, e.g. one letter dated 20th August 1945 discusses the removal of wire guards from the windows, while others deal with the removal of blackout fittings (11th June 1945), the closing of an Emergency Administrative Centre (28th June 1945), the disconnection of a wartime telephone (29th January 1946), the redistribution of surplus Civil Defence Equipment (4th February 1946), and the rehabilitation and resettlement of returning officers (26th October 1945)). One circular dated 15th October 1945 from the Ministry of Fuel discusses severe coal shortages for the first winter after the War. There are also more general letters from this period, concerning: exhibitions and events (many, but not all, of which are themselves part of the war effort); schools and educational outreach; user enquiries, suggestions and requests (e.g. for publishing advice, and the use of a lecture-hall); approaches regarding the purchasing and acquisition of new stock and furnishings; insurance; matters of health and infection control; inter-library communication, including with the Rowntree Library; personal correspondence between Frederick Cowles at Pendlebury and Raymond Doherty at York. Also present are a number of internal letters and other documents (notes concerning stock; a police report detailing a list of found books; financial and taxation matters; staffing matters; committee matters; Library inspection reports and conference reports; assorted library notices and publicity documents in proof; notes and notices concerning rationing esp. National Milk Cocoa; notes of library tickets and books issued to local Forces).

Includes a letter regarding the Control of Maps Order from Chief Constable Harry H. Herman, together with correspondence from Joan Hopper and attached newspaper cutting, dated 25th-26th June 1940, concerning fears over enemy spies using libraries and maps to plan an invasion.

Two sets of correspondence concerning library staffing during and just after the Second World War.

Correspondence concerning the series of War Office grants received by the library in support of its provision of services to locally-based Forces men and women and interned prisoners. Includes some statistics for holdings, loans and service user/borrower numbers through the war.

Comprehensive collection of correspondence relating to the National Association of Local Government Organisations (NALGO), including receipts, invoices, accounts, promotional materials, newspaper cuttings for wartime exhibition on local government services. Relates to the war effort more generally.

Correspondence relating to the Association of Municipal Corporations.

Includes: report on local government agency arrangements between City of York Council and North Yorkshire County Council, a copy of the 1967 Local Government Alteration of Areas; two copies of document detailing the Public Libraries and Museums Bill; an estimate of library costs resulting from proposed boundary extensions; correspondence regarding capitation grants; documents detailing the 1958 Local Government Act and its likely effects on York's public libraries; and a further folder contining miscellaneous documents pertaining to local government restructuring.

Correspondence to and from the British Standards Institution.

Mostly with J. Burrow & Co. Ltd, publishers.

Two copies.

Lists the reference works that produced new editions frequently enough to be automatically ordered, and the libraries they were sent to.

Photocopy of the original only.

The statistics relate to visitors and issues. Also includes local library borrowing statistics 1968-1970.

Handwritten records of stock, fiction issues, juvenile issues, issues on other subjects, total issues and percentage of fiction.

Correspondence with York Waterworks Co - Leakages/Repairs to mains at 287 Burton Stone Road [1940] - Water mains at rear of municipal housing adjacent to privately owned properties,1944 - List of Corporation Housing supplied from private water mains (undated) New housing estates, 1953

Correspondence 1943-1944 Ministry of Health circular No.2778: Housing of Working Classes, Post-war Programme - Report on Post-War Housing, Mar 1943, and Land Purchases Apr 1943 - York Housing: First Year's Housing Programme: 500 houses and flats proposed on land already held by Local Authority, Cemetery Road, Acomb Hall Estate and Gale Lane - Demolition Sites: Hallfield Road, Lord Mayor's Walk, Layerthorpe, Regent Street, Willow Street and Long Cross Lane, 15 May 1943 - Sites to be acquired: Muncaster Estate Stockton Lane - Undeveloped Building Sites . Muncaster Estate, Elmfield Lane, Hempland Lane, Bad Bargain Lane, Heslington Lane, Birkbeck Estate, Westfield Estate, Maple Grove, Kingsway West, New Lane, Windmill Estate, Carr Lane, Acomb Hall Estate, 15 May 1943 - Northern Housing
Council, Jarrow: First Year's Housing Programme, Nov 43 - Resolutions passed at Conference of West Riding Local Authorities, Wakefield, 29 Sep 1943 Ministry of Health circular 28/44: Post-War Housing, Purchase of Land with Statement by Minister of Health in House, 8 Mar 1944 - Correspondence with Jackson, Valuers, Leeds regarding Purchase of Dringthorpe Estate, Mar 1944-Jun 1944 - Correspondence with York, Harrogate & District Group of Gas Companies, Coney Street, concerning possibility of 'Model Kitchen' to be erected in Guildhall, Mar 1944 - Letter concerning offer of land and bungalow in Stockton Lane, 1943 - City of York: Post-War Municipal Housing Report to City Council by Housing Committee, 1942 - Notes on Interview with Ministry of Health, 1943 - Association of Municipal Corporations: War-Time Housing, Extract from House of Commons Debate, 1943 with Statement by Minister of Health on Government proposals; also Note on Association's Deputation to Ministry of Health, 2 Feb 1944

Plans, Town Planning, Acomb; Proposed 2-Bedroom type houses; Link Avenue; Proposed premises for doctor; proposed community hall; lay-out for Gale Lane Housing Estate; provisional sites Carr Lane; proposed revision of allotment areas; section of Tadcaster Road, Dringhouses

Correspondence concerning land in Rawdon Avenue vested in Housing Committee for a period of 21 years with option to renew - Plan of St Nicholas Tip site, Melrosegate for proposed Tarmacadam Plant

Ministry of Health circular No.2875 and Schedule for Plasterers' Work, Sep 1945 - Correspondence concerning Prosecutions for false claims Jan 1943-Oct 1943; Fraudulent claims in War Damage accounts, Jun 1943-Sep 1944; Alleged fraud in War Damage contracts, Aug 1943-Dec 1943; , Overcharging in contract for War Damage, Nov 1943-May 1945; forgery case Mar-Jun 1944; Incorrect claims for employees Apr 1943- Sep 1943; Incorrect claim in wages for War Damage repairs, Jan 1944-2May 1945 - Ministry of Health circular 151/46: War Damage Repairs, Request to Local Authorities to assist in expeditious considerations of claims in certain cases, Jul 1946

Correspondence and papers regarding proposed site for 262 houses and 23 old peoples' dwellings

Correspondence with engineering contractors

Correspondence with building contractors for 98 houses

Correspondence concerning the building of eight houses - Proposed purchase of land in Nevinson Grove; draft specification and bill of quantities (includes plan).

County Borough of Walsall, Housing Department salaries - Inadequately housed persons - Yorkshire Regional Joint Committee Building Industry : Hours of Labour,- Housing & Estates Department circular letter concerning repairs and maintenance of properties - Multi-Storey Flats, Women's Advisory Committee on Solid Fuel circular letter : 'Aims & Objectives' Apr 1946 - Reports on Building Licences - Details of Annual Conference of Institute of Housing, 1946 - Report of Sir John Wrigley's visit to York, Jun 1946 - Requisitioned Houses re-let - Housing and Planning, News Bulletin No.42, Aug/Sept 1946 - Application by a Trade Union for a special rate of pay for tree-lopping, Aug 1946 - Query regarding advances under small dwellings acquisition Acts - Housing & Estates Department circular letter concerning Report on 'points' scheme - Housing & Planning News Bulletin, Oct/Nov 1946 - Housing Progress Report, Sept 1946 -Charges for gas cookers in new houses -City of York: questionnaire concerning Housing Officer - Yorkshire Regional joint Council for the Building Industry : Gradings of Districts and Current Rate of Wages

Subscription for membership of the National Housing & Town Planning Council, 1946/47 - Dustbins - Possession of properties , 1947 - Compensation following accident in Rougier Street - Gas & Electricity Services in Corporation Housing Charity Commission: query concerning Friends' 'Retreat' - Access to premises in Kitchener Street - Report on Building Licences - National Federation for Housing and Town Planning : Programme for Conference, Paris, June 1947 - Housing Committee: Municipal Houses, Increase in Rents, and details for Tang Hall, Burton Lane, Water Lane Estates and various houses and flats - Housing & Planning News Bulletin, June/July 1947- Query regarding Wilberforce Avenue - Visit of Deputation from Borough of Luton Housing committee to York - Northern Housing Council circular letter and Agenda for AGM - Treasurer's Report 1946/47 - List of number of applicants on waiting list - Housing Progress Reports, 18 May to 15 Dec 1947 - Tenancy of 12 Garths End, Fulford - Caretaker's House, Mill Mount School, - Maintenance of Typewriters -Survey of prefabricated houses - Request for accommodation in York - Plan of proposed water supply to Clifton Lawn Tennis Club - Request regarding 'Clifton Field' - List of applicants for flats, Aug 1947 -The Housing Centre Haymarket, 10th Report, 1946/47, and Housing Centre Bulletin No.114, Jun 1947 - Comparative Housing Activity Report, June - August 1947 - Housing in Military Occupation: 41 and 43 Water End; 1 Melbourne Street and 1 Melbourne Villas, Sep 1947 - Application for grant for Examination Award, Sept/Oct 1947 - Programme of National Housing and Town Planning Council's Conference, Harrogate, Nov 28 - Dec 1947 - Report on Flats Survey, 20 Oct 1947 - Appointment of permanent housing Welfare Officer for York, 20 Oct 1947 - Middlethorpe Lodge, Dringhouses, taken on a seven year lease by the War Department- Query with regard to sale of 68 Hanover Street -County Borough of Hastings Housing Department Questionnaire - Classification of housing applicants - Request for accommodation.

Correspondence concerning: National Fire Service; 'Finish the Houses' Campaign; Land adjoining Tang Hall Beck; Analysis of House building costs; Opening of 600th House; Fencing of American bungalows; Motion with regard to Housing Programme; Review of Local Authority Waiting Lists.

Factory made houses, Hob Moor Fields - Correspondence concerning land at Hob Moor, (with plans), Dec 1944 - Feb 1947 - Correspondence with regard to temporary housing at Kingsway West and Gale Lane - Consent to loan for purchase of 13 acres of land at Hob Moor (undated)

Comprises correspondence on the following: British Iron and Steel Federation [BISF]Houses to be erected on Carr Lane Estate by Birch & Sons Ltd -Schedule of Prices (Alternatives) No.l and Supplement: Basic Paint Prices, 1946 - 1947 - Consent to loans - Articles of Agreement for construction of 208 houses (superceded) - BISF, specification for supplies of structured steel framework, materials and fabrication, house Type A.1 - B.I.S.F. House Type A.1, schedule for prices for external work and variations in foundations; variation to schedule - Report on Conference regarding B.I.S.F. Houses.

Correspondence February 1946 - December 1947 - 140 houses, Acomb Hall Estate; 6, Lindsay Avenue - Tender accepted - Consent to loan for 146 houses - Contract Guarantee, 1946.

Correspondence concerning proposed site for Booster Station on land adjoining Askham Lane Estate, and Plan

Housing Progress reports including drains and sewers

Construction of 50 houses on Muncaster Estate, correspondence Jan 1948-Jun 1949. Allocation of further 50 houses, correspondence Mar 1948 - Aug 1949, with erection of fencing on Water Lane site.

Construction of permanent houses on Muncaster Estate; 4 residential shops; 7 bungalows and 7 old peoples' dwellings - Extracts from minutes of Housing Committee and correspondence, 1948-49.

Correspondence with War Department Ministry of Health and others, concerning military camps on Corporation land, 1941-49 - List of Camps, Aug 1945 - Camps required for housing: Fishergate-Paragon Road-Horsman Avenue, Kent Street and land at Melrosegate. - Ministry of Health circular 20/46: Conversion of Temporary Wartime Buildings to Housing use; claims for compensation for dilapidation under CD Act 1939 -Cemetery Road Housing Contract: Schedule of work on foundations, Feb 1947

Correspondence and
extracts from Minutes of Housing Committee, including – Ministry of Housing memo re: Permanent Housing Programmes, June 1945 - Ministry
of Works CLA.4 : Re-opening of Retail Shops, 1945 - Ministry of Health circulars NEH/1/46: Clearing & Approval of Housing Sites; NEH/6/47 Supplies of Bricks: List of Brickmakers; NEH/4/47: Housing Programme; NEH/14/47: Timber Licences, Cement Supplies; NEH/22/47: Non-Traditional Houses; NEH/2/48: Housing Materials, urgent requirements; NEH/3/48: Housing Loans; NEH/4/48 : Iron & Steel Distribution Scheme; NEH/5/48: Housing, Submission of Layouts; NEH/6/48: Permanent Housing, Final Accounts; NEH/10/48: Housing Contracts; NEH/11/48 Housing Licensing; NEH/1/49: House Tenders, Submission of Documents; NEH/2/49 : Procedure for Clearance, Acquisition & Development of Sites; NEH/4/49: Timber for Housing, Economy in use of Softwood; NEH/1/50 and 5/51: Housing Programmes, Electricity Services; NEH/4/51: Housing Programmes, Laying of Gas Mains; NEH/1/53: Notification of Sale or Lease of Council Housing; NEH/9/52: Non-Traditional Housing

Building Trade Contracts - Correspondence March 1947 - Dec 1955 - General Conditions Contracts, 1946 – Proposed Modification to York Corporation & Terms of Contract (Undated) - Acceptance of Tenders, July 1847 (Specimen Form of Tender) – Bonds for Housing Contracts, July 1948 (Specimen Form of Bond) - Conditions of Contract for Building Work, May 1950 - Observations on the Proposals (on comparative costs) contained in a letter dated 9.3.51 from an Assurance Co. April 1951 - Building Contracts, Release of Retention Moneys etc. 1951/52 -Building Industry Distributors, Oct 1952 - Specimen Form of Articles of Agreement

Fire Hydrants on Housing Estates - Correspondence with York
Waterworks and National Fire Service, 1945-1949 - Plans for areas: Askham Lane (East Section), Muncaster and Rawcliffe Lane Estates

Correspondence concerning provision of gates to Corporation Houses and extracts, from Minutes of Housing Committee, Jul 1949­Jul 1950

Correspondence and minutes of Housing Committee meetings, 1950-1953 - Proposed erection of 18 houses in Carr Lane - Plans of Compulsory Purchase Orders, 1950 - Roads and drainage 1951 - Correspondence and extracts from minutes of Housing Committee concerning erection of 12 houses in Carr Lane, 1952-1953. Includes plans.

Correspondence with solicitors, extracts from minutes of Housing and Streets & Buildings Committees, Building & Planning Sub-Committee and plan, in connection with purchase by Corporation of sites 1,2 and 3 Leeman Road, Apr 1950-Jun1951.

Particulars of pre-WWII housing schemes prepared by City Engineer, 1919-1938, and of post-WWII Housing Schemes, 1944-1946. Report of Housing Committee to Sep 1950. Plan of Corporation Housing Estates.

Correspondence concerning dampness in Council houses, with particular reference to Chaloner's Road

Concerning adoption of roads on Council housing estates with respect to maintenance of verges

Correspondence and extracts of minutes of Housing Committee concerning erection of old people's bungalows Beck Lane, Heworth

Correspondence concerning land adjoining Tang Hall Beck being used as dumping ground, includes plan.

Correspondence concerning erection of a detached house in Askham Lane,

Includes invitations to openings; Institute of Housing booklet 'Training to be a Housing Manager'; and conference papers.

Correspondence relating to food catering for the festival.

Also includes photographs of people in the costumes.

Includes correspondence with Mayor of Toronto and various Mayors in the United States of America.

Includes a seating plan, list of invitees, and associated correspondence.

Includes a list of invitees, seating plan and correspondence.

Includes correspondence with boat clubs.

Includes reports about the festival, complaint letters and newspaper cutting.

Also includes correspondence and programme for the festival.

Includes correspondence, menu, invitation and list of invitees.

Includes papers relating to the visit by the Queen and The Duke of Edinburgh to York, visit programme, and photographs of a box presented to the Queen, as well as a list of invitees to a reception at the Assembly Rooms.

Includes items relating to the Mystery Plays.

Includes programmes, plans for the festival, newspaper cutting and estimates.

Also includes correspondence relating to tickets.

Guest lists for the opening of the Guildhall by H.M Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother.

Papers regarding the re-appraisal of staff salaries, particularly clerks, within York Corporation. Comprises minutes of the Scale of Salaries Sub-Committee, printed minutes of other committees regarding the recommendations of the Salaries Sub-Committee; correspondence; notes; and comparisons of salaries with other local authorities.

Schedule only - original letters were destroyed in 1979.

Includes appointments in 1907-8, 1938 and 1945.

Includes appointments in 1936 and 1945.

Also includes conditions of service.

Includes papers from 1927, 1928, 1933 and 1969-1971 only.