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Includes a list of materials transferred from the Pumping Station to the Housing Depot, and correspondence regarding salvaged materials.

Includes correspondence regarding the Personal Injuries (Civilians) Scheme, protocols for civilian deaths, lists of air raid casualties and mortuary protocols.

Includes paperwork relating to Prime Cost Contracts.

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).

Files for individuals who received their freedom by patrimony or by apprenticeship only.

Files for individuals who received their freedom by patrimony or by apprenticeship only.

Files for individuals who received their freedom by patrimony or by apprenticeship only.

Files for individuals who received their freedom by patrimony or by apprenticeship only.

Files for individuals who received their freedom by patrimony or by apprenticeship only.

Files for individuals who received their freedom by patrimony or by apprenticeship only.

Files for individuals who received their freedom by patrimony or by apprenticeship only.

Files for individuals who received their freedom by patrimony or by apprenticeship only.

Files for individuals who received their freedom by patrimony or by apprenticeship only.

Files for individuals who received their freedom by patrimony or by apprenticeship only.

Files for individuals who received their freedom by patrimony or by apprenticeship only.

Files for individuals who received their freedom by patrimony or by apprenticeship only.

Files for individuals who received their freedom by patrimony or by apprenticeship only.

Includes statements, posters, polling information, statuory declarations, general expenses, postal vote paperwork, ballot paperwork, consent of nominations, Presiding Officer details and papers regarding absent voters.

Includes the registration of vehicles, election expenses and papers, posters, rail posters, floor plans, papers regarding the counting of votes, papers regarding staff and postal vote paperwork.

Includes polling information, cheques, envelopes and forms, posters, ballots papers, postal votes, details of absent voters, election expenses, rejected voting applications, and Proxy Votes.

Includes expenses paperwork for candidates, Labour nominations and Conservative expenses, as well as information on clerks and messengers.

Instructions to presiding officers and poll clerks

Letter to the Municipal electors of Bootham Ward from Ralph Davison and Robert Marchant

File containing correspondence created in August 1971 during Alderman Richard Scruton's term of office as Lord Mayor of York

File containing correspondence created in December 1971 during Alderman Richard Scruton's term of office as Lord Mayor of York

File containing correspondence created in January 1972 during Alderman Richard Scruton's term of office as Lord Mayor of York

File containing correspondence created in February 1972 during Alderman Richard Scruton's term of office as Lord Mayor of York

File containing correspondence created in April and May 1972 during Alderman Richard Scruton's term of office as Lord Mayor of York

File contains weekly engagement sheets for the entirety of Alderman Richard Scruton's term of office as Lord Mayor of York

Correspondence regarding patients and services

Includes returns of births and deaths

Information recorded includes personal details of each patient, possible source of infection, and living conditions. Note that these cards are samples only of total cases.

Information recorded includes personal details of each patient, possible source of infection, and living conditions. Note that these cards are samples only of total cases.

Information recorded includes personal details of each patient, milk supply, and living conditions. From April 1954 the format changes to environmental conditions forms. Note that these cards are samples only of total cases.

Includes correspondence relating to the proposal and purchase of Acomb Hall, staffing and training, and general administrative matters.

A series of numbered pieces of correspondence and bundles of correspondence organised by subject. Includes correspondence, circulars, minutes and other associated papers related to the housing and care of those with learning disabilities following the introduction of the Mental Deficiency Act of 1913. Contains information on patients/cases. There is an index to this correspondence filed in the front of Y/HEA/6/2/4/1 . Note, there are gaps in this series.

Correspondence, minutes and reports relating to the management of Brandesburton Hall for the Mentally Defective in East Yorkshire. Contains some references to patients/cases.

Correspondence files regarding precautions for dealing with a radioactive event and regarding the register of radioactive substances. Includes incoming and outgoing correspondence and printed literature.

Comprises correspondence, individual reports of accidents at work and statistical information on accidents in the workplace.

Booklets regarding consumer protection services for traders

Includes publications, printed conference proceedings and reports relating to smoke abatement, chiefly those printed by the Smoke Abatement League and its successor organisation, the Smoke Abatement Society. Includes the Journal of the Smoke Abatement Society [1930-1934]; Smokeless Air, The Smoke Abatement Journal [1943-1948]; as well as other publications. Includes a small number of covering letters.

Comprises sheets recording numbers of animal slaughtered and certificates for unsound meat surrendered to the inspector.

Photographs of clearance streets and properties taken by City of York council and predecessor bodies

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).

Registers of recognisances entered into by brewers, innholders etc re: sale of Ale, selling meat during Lent and playing unlawful games 3 volumes. Y/ENV/2/1/1/1 (1552-1564) Y/ENV/2/1/1/2 (1586-1595) Y/ENV/2/1/1/3 (1596-1605)

File containing receipted accounts of Alderman Charles Oliver during his term of office as Lord Mayor of York.

Notebook containing details of the cash accounts of Alderman William Dobbie compiled during his term of office as Lord Mayor of York.

This series includes three catalogues of books held in the York Subscription Library, as well as a pen and ink sketch of the interior of the building.

Operational records and photographs of York Public Library, including drawings, stock books, accessions registers and papers regarding the foundation of the library in 1892. Also includes papers regarding the new premises for the library in Museum Street.

Scrapbooks containing photographs and newspaper cuttings concerning G W Shipley's tenure as Sheriff.

Correspondence files created by the office of the Lord Mayor of York.

Notebooks kept by the recorder of the Quarter Sessions of the Peace, detailing particular cases heard by the court.

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

5. 1669-1678
6. 1715-1810 [Entries for years 1746-1810 lists names of overseers of the poor only]

One volume:

1: 1664-1665

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 by resident surname.

Printed annual Reports including statement of accounts and statistics

Town Clerk's correspondence files. Includes incoming and outgoing correspondence relating to the Yorkshire Casual Poor Assistance Authority.

Comprises returns of pauper lunatics. The returns include personal details of patients.

Town Clerk's correspondence concerning the accommodation and maintenance of pauper lunatics.

Comprises petitions and counsel opinions regarding lunacy.

Includes minutes of meetings of the Committee of York School of Art, covering issues of concern to the management of the school.

Includes manuals relating to nuclear weapons, line communication, field cable construction, Army health and rescues.

Includes files relating to planning in the event of a nuclear attack, essential service routes, awards, radiological defence instruments and fallout and contamination.

Arthur Cooke was a Civil Defence Officer in York in the 1950s and 1960s. These files form his personal collection of correspondence created in the course of this duties.

Includes papers relating to the management of the Fire Service in York.

Includes papers relating to annual inspections and reviews of the Civil Defence Corps.

Includes correspondence relating to the activities of the Association of Municipal Corporations

Includes recruitment campaign papers, information relating to canvassing for new recruits and associated correspondence.

Includes paperwork relating to the Technical Reconnaisance Officers, and and up to date list of staff.

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

Contains correspondence and paperwork regarding staff training courses on a variety of subjects.

Includes files on evacuations, information and rest centres, air raid warnings, care and development, and associated correspondence.

Includes maps of a proposed compound and rescue training rea, and details relating to previous Civil Defence land on Bull Lane and Lawrence Street.

Papers relating to first aid courses, competitions and services.

Includes one circular, papers regarding mobilisation and deployment and a report by Marshall and Pengilley.

Contains information on owners, rivers the boats used, cargo, size and subsequent owners.

Includes reports to the Markets, Ouse and Foss Watch Committee, Ouse and Foss Committee reports and River Manager report books.

Annual desk diaries used by a member of staff working at Naburn Lock.

Includes various published sets of bye-laws and rules concerning lights, signals and ways to avoid collisions, as well as towing regulations and tide tables.

Papers for an enquiry by the Inspector of Nuisances regarding the erection of a public slaughterhouse in York. Includes correspondence with, and replies from other towns; a Report on the Sanitary Conditions of Slaughterhouses in York; and a Royal Commission Report on the danger to man of tuberculosis from animal food.

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.