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Includes press cuttings relating to the electrification of railways, transport to London, National Railway Museum and Leeds trams and trolleys.

General newspaper cuttings on 'York Past and Present'.

Includes cuttings on York from the air; the birth of Jorvik and the 60th anniversary of the Baedeker Raid.

Includes cuttings on the LUI Banquet (response to criticism from Manchester); Coney Street, archive of York bridges and an article on horse trams by Hugh Murray.

Articles relating to books published on York's history, buildings and families.

Includes cuttings relating to the York Mystery Plays and Festival.

Includes press cuttings on the restoration of York Minster.

Newspaper cuttings relating to Royal visits and commemorations.

Newspaper cuttings relating to Dringhouses; Moor Lane Youth Centre; Dringhouses Pond; Captain W. Duncan-Jones; Dringhouses status in the 1940s; Pinfold repair; Toll House; and Moor Lane lakeside lodges.

Includes cuttings on Esher and the ring road traffic management; cars in York; York 2000 campaign; envelope containing 'Esher's Aldwark' conservation questions; 1971 ring road plans; foot streets; outer ring road plans; Copmanthorpe flyover plans; A19 straightening; Deangate closure; Bootham bus lane; ring road blight; central area traffic management; Exhibition Square fountain and use as bus terminus; car parks; Esher's York; and preservation of historic buildings. Includes some duplicate material.

Newspaper cuttings relating to Freemen and strays. Topics include Hob Moor; John Shannon; Rowntree Park; Freemen of England banquet; Freedom Casket; Micklegate Stray; Freemen's rights over city strays; Walmgate Stray; strays and the common land question; freemen's oath; freewomen; and Monk Stray.

Newspaper cuttings relating to Clifton. Includes cuttings on churches, buildings, demolitions, hospital, the Burton Stone, Clifton Green, Clifton Bridge, parish minute book found, house sale adverts, Clifton Court leet, Homestead Park, Ouse Lea, RSPCA dog's home, St Peter's footbridge, trees, footpaths, individuals, Skelton Street demolition, Cross's fish shop, YWCA, bridges and demolitions for the inner ring road.

Newspaper cuttings relating to Civic Trust plaques and other plaques: Herbert House, George Hudson, Garforth House (photo of John Shannon), observatory, Abbey Wall, King's Square, Dick Turpin; Mansion House; Richard III; BR Eastern Region HQ; Jewish massacre; York Station (including a photo of Nikolaus Pevsner) and York Minster Gates.

Cuttings relating to defences, Clifford's Tower and York Castle and prison. Topics include bars; city walls; posterns; E Ridsdale Tate's 15th century York; manuscript notes; Peter Addyman's article on Baile Hill; Exhibition Square; 1644 siege; portcullis' lowering; Lendal Arch; wall and bar repairs and the tourism budget.

Newspaper cuttings relating to people and characters, from local and national newspapers. Includes many obituary notices, cuttings with York or Yorkshire connections, and others of significance to Hugh's interests (e.g. Heraldry, or Colditz). Includes a mixture of recent people (e.g. Eric Gee) and historical (George Hudson).

Cuttings relating to almshouses, abbattoir, canals and assizes.

Acomb, Holgate; talk on Backhouse Nurseries by Judity Pinder; talk on Acomb by George Benson (report of) 1922 and letter from Robin Blake regarding Fothergills of York, 2002.

Churches, Chapels (York and non-York), Salvation Army, convents, monasteries, abbeys and synagogues - mostly cuttings plus a few leaflets, almost entirely relating to York.

York bridges and rivers - Ouse, Foss, old bridges and new including Naburn Lock photo 1888. Also includes a photo of the opening of Skeldergate Bridge 1881, the Ouse Ferry, flood defences, barges, riverside walks, Hill's boatyard, new by-pass and ring road, engraving of collapsed Lendal Bridge 1861 and York Waterworks.

Books published on York's history, buildings and families, including news reviews and details of books of photos.

Alwark - mostly Esher report and redevelopment.

Bedern - Esher report and redevelopment and restoration of Bedern Hall.

Bishophill District - archeaological dig at Buckingham House and general redevelopment initiatives.

Bishopthorpe Road - layout of shops and development issues.

Blake Street - historic locations (mostly Assembly Room issues).

Blossom Street - building developments; financial problems of Bar Convent; issues related to No. 40 Blossom Street.

Historical buildings in Bootham - notes by Hugh Murray and correspondence regarding specific sites.

Pictures of Radio York in Bootham Row.

Bridge Street - redevelopment of shops, closure of Boyes and erosion issues.

Burton Stone Lane shop development.

Carr Lane (picture of the lane).

Castlegate - development of Fairfax House, work of the Civic Trust, other historic buildings, and notes of Hugh Murray.

Chapter House Street - copies dated 1993 in Treasurers House to Hugh Murray from Lewis, and cuttings of Treasurers House.

Clarence Street cuttings, including Mrs Shaw planting a memorial tree.

Clementhorpe - redevelopment of the Terry's site, and river views with buildings.

21 Copies of The York Citizen, including articles on the introduction of the Yorkcard, opening of the Barbican Leisure centre and Duchess of Kent received Freedom of the City of York.

Clifford Street - development of Technical College and history of Water Lane.

Coffee Yard - renovation of Barley Hall and the history of Coffee Yard.

College Street - history of Sir Williams College, numerous pictures of the site and restoration issues.

Colliergate - historic buildings and account of the fire of 1839.

Coney Street - buildings and shop adverts, archaeological digs and finds, notes of Hugh Murray and papers relating to the Baedeker Raid.

Coppergate - development issues, and 'Duttons for Buttons' building.

Coppergate - phase 2, showing controversies over plans for future development.

Dalton Terrace - funeral of Emily Houden, and letters from Hugh Murray to York Evening Press regarding naming Dalton Terrace.

Davygate shopping arcade, development of property.

Deangate - traffic congestion and issues near to York Minster.

Detailed index cards compiled by Hugh Murray during the course of his research. Please see file level descriptions for more detailed information about the contents of this series.

Card index arranged alphabetically by surname.

Covers Royal Antediluvian Order of Buffaloes; Vehicle Registration Numbers; Friendly Societies; Horse Tram Staff; NER Constituent Companies and Goldsmiths C to Y.

Covers pubs in the city of York.

Card index arranged alphabetically by surname. It would appear that this index relates to authors of articles relating to York.

Covers clockmakers, watchmakers, money makers, chairman and York pubs.

Covers York streets. Arranged alphabetically. A-T only.

Covers details of 18th and 19th century families.

Medals, A to Z.

Covers heraldic bookplates, general, A-Z. Armorial, A-Z including York City, York churches, York Minster.

Covers introduction. King's Square to Scaurius Railway Hotel. York Coat of Arms. Armed Services personnel. Outside Micklegate Bar (OMB). York Arms. Heraldry at Bishopthorpe Palace. Exhibition Square to Petergate. Lost Heraldry of York Minster. Ecclesiastical Heraldry. Arms of 4 Archepiscopal Sees. Arms of the See of York. St. WIlliam's College, Bootham Bar, etc. Bedern area. Tanners Moat, York Cemetery, etc. 'York'. Arms and Oxford Colleges. Confluence of Ouse and Foss.

Covers heraldry and what appears to be prominent families.

Files relating to the history of the Pearson room at Leeds Metropolitan University.

Details the Pearson connection between Leeds Metropolitan University, School of Built Environment and the firm of S. Pearson and Son Ltd (Public Works Contractors). Includes stained glass illustrations and photographs.

Notes on the history of the Pearson firm. Includes a fact sheet on the Parliament Street buildings, House of Commons; notes on Pearson firm's building projects and dates; and detailed notes on the Parliament Street Building, London.

Biography of Weetman Dickinson Pearson. Also includes brief pedigrees of other members of the family; history of the Buckendon Estate, Hertfordshire; correspondence and notes relating to the preservation of the Pearson Glass and three CD-ROMs of Pearson talks.

Research notes relating to the history of the police in York and North Yorkshire. See file-level descriptions for more detailed information.

Includes photographs of Police Officers, offence details, convictions and incident details. Also includes a booklet entitled 'First Hundred Years of North Riding Constabulary', which chronicles the first hundred years of York Police Force, as well as a memorandum entitled 'Keeping Peace in the City' and press cuttings and notes on Police organisation.

Several issues of 'Police Gazette', 19th century, as well as occurrence reports 1845-1847; discipline reports 1845-1847; press cuttings and miscellaneous notes on Police matters; list of deaths in Kidcote (?) prison and burials in St John's, Ousebridge, and history of York City Police.

Includes papers on street life in Medieval England; Special Constables during the Chartist period; a 'York Four Days Stage Coach' notice; 'Keeping Peace in the City' typescript and a poster.

List of Duncumbe's charitable gifts, notes including a photocopy of his obituary by James Raine. Includes notes on the condition of his memorial cross; notes from Yorkshire Gazette 1858-1881; proposed plan for widening Little Blake Street to form Duncumbe Place; copy of his will and his father's will and a press cutting about York market.

Includes details of the Kempe / Kemp arms, details of the family history and newsletters relating to the Kempe Society.

Includes papers relating to railways, horse trams, trolleybuses and electrobuses, boats and the Sheppee Steam Company.

Includes tramways amendments (possibly notes for Hugh Murray's book, plus 'list of plans and illustrations' and sections redrafted. Also includes photostats of 1878 initial proposals for tramways in York, photocopies of two articles on the history of tranways by George Jackson, and a photostat of the Tramway Orders Confirmation Act 1879.

Working papers relating to tramways, trolley buses and electric buses.

Includes lecture notes, after dinner speech, retirement speech (including biographical details), and general notes on railway history.

Includes papers entitled 'Servants of Business', about the Chairman and General Managers of the North Eastern Railway, as well as a manuscript together with lists, dates and accompanying notes.

Miscellaneous collection of notes, including about St. Peter's School; Fulford property; British Rail headquarters; magazine with Hugh Murray published paper; Scarborough Spa Express; mail coach times; information about the route from Darlington to Stanhope and points of interest; Signalling Training School history; and a questionnaire worksheet.

Includes a York Press supplement; plans and notes of the Scarborough line through Clifton; Robert Bell memoir; South Yorkshire rail tour; Foss Islands branch information; British Rail Thirsk School; and plans for the site of the railway offices 1898.

Includes manuscript and typed notes on the railway chronology of York; letters; York station history; plans and notes of a route round the two stations and details of the railway offices.

Notes from papers of Lady Hewley's Charity held at North Yorkshire Record Office; paper on 'Quakers and Railways' by E. H. Milligan (two versions); and Hugh Murray manuscript on the 'Railway Influences on Buildings of York'.

Includes press supplements on the closure of the carriage works and the opening of the National Railway Museum, photos and elevations of the railway offices, Station Hotel invoices and old publications.

Railway press cuttings.

Includes details of the Light Railways Act 1896 and Tramway Act 1870, folded plan 1:500 of Micklegate area (c.1960), correspondence with Town Clerk 1879-1980, Hugh's scribbled notes, and additional pieces of correspondence.

Includes a collection of short biographies on Hudson, Meysey-Thompson, Pease, Tennant and Stephenson.

Includes a list of boats with their owners, type, date and routes; newspaper cuttings, including a photocopy of the York Courant 27/5/1777; manuscript notes on re-used paper (including an invitation to a wedding); multiple copies of a York Waterworks invitation dated 1908; and a letter from Hugh Murray to the Royal Humane Society dated 1981, regarding life-saving medals.

History of number plate DN7.

Press cuttings of the arguments for and against the council selling off the Lord Mayor's car number plate. Also includes facsimile of the 'Sheppee Overseas Special' about light steam commercial vehicles.

Handwritten research notes compiled by Hugh Murray.

Includes Hugh Murray's manuscript with paste-ups of draft pages, sections 1A and 1A2; correspondence regarding source booklets and photos of public notices regarding tramways 1878-1902.

Includes Hugh Murray's manuscript with paste-ups, sections 3 - 4, (numbered in red) plus notes, manuscript timetables (c 1900), figures regarding tracks, expenses and receipts and population information. Also includes negotiations between York Corporation and the Tramways Company (1899-1906) plus report dated 1907 of agreement to sell the undertaking to the Corporation, memorandum on the position of the Tramways Company and proposals, poll of owners and ratepayers, and article from 'Modern Tramway' Magazine entitled 'Perspectives of Modern Tramways 1978.'

Pencil manuscript of Hugh's book 'Horse Tramways of York' 1880-1909, 140 pp., wired together.

Further draft sections and chapters of Hugh's manuscript, including sections 1 and 2, maps of York Centre including one coloured with 'original proposals', photostats of 'Some Facts and Comparisons' issued by York Independent Labour Party on the imminent vote to privatize the tramways, 'York Tramways Order 1879' as printed; 1881 draft Provisional Order, two original Provisional Orders dated 1878 and 1880, and photostat of share offer and opening of tramway extensions, including names and addresses.

Includes working documents, council papers, press cuttings, and additional materials relating to the H Murray publication 'The Horse Tramways of York'. Also includes a railway chronology of York; and City of York report of the Tramways Committee 1909.

Includes the York Corporation Act 1914, images of trolley vehicles, a copy of the book 'Horse Tramways of York', and associated correspondence.

Working papers relating to tramways, trolley buses and electric buses.

Research notes compiled by Hugh Murray on various churches and York Minster, as well as church graveyards. Please see file level descriptions for more detailed information about the contents of this series.

Copies of Burdekin's Almanac, relating to the York area and published annually. Incomplete series.

Incomplete series.

Volume 17.

Files of papers relating to classes taught by Hugh Murray over the course of his career.