Records of the Jospeph Rowntree Senior School
Records of the Joseph Rowntree Modern School
Bound copy of act
Bound copy of act
Bound copy of act
Bound copy of act
Constitution of City of York Council explaining the structure and workings of City of York Council, including all the rules and procedures under which the Council operates. It sets out who makes decisions and how they are made, and the rights of citizens to obtain information and to influence decisions.
Wages books for members of staff of the council Education Department. Reference numbers 20 and 21 were not used.
At present this series only contains one offer letter for a council house, dated 1927. Please see item-level descriptions for more detailed information.
General wages books for members of staff of the council.
Town Clerks correspondence files relating to welfare matters. Includes incoming and outgoing correspondence and any associated papers such as reports, printed literature and minutes. Index to files included with first file (ref: Y/SOC/1/1/1).
Account rolls for St Leonard's Hospital for years 1437-1438, 1457-1458 and 1540-1541. The 1457-1458 roll only survives as a fragment and the 1540-1541 roll is incomplete.
Includes correspondence files, work permits and appointment forms. Also includes script for the Mystery Plays and some promotional materials including festival programmes.
This series currently comprises a seating plan for the festival and a plan of the proposed layout of the Museum Gardens.
This series currently comprises a plan for the access gantry at the rear of St Mary's Abbey, seating plan and proposed layout of the Museum Gardens.
Includes:
E48: Book of Subsidy granted to King Henry VIII and contributed by Persons, Corporations, Fraternities, Gilds etc, according to certain values, 1547-8;
E49 Book of Subsidy granted to King Edward VI, 1547-8 (bound with E48);
E50: Book of Subsidy granted to King Edward VI and Elizabeth I, 1550-1559;
E51: Book of Subsidy granted to Elizabeth I, 1563-1582.
E59: Assessment on the City and Ainsty, 1582;
E59a: Assessments on the City and Ainsty, 1585-1600
Comprises correspondence and associated papers of the Health Committee. An alphabetical index to the files is included in first box. Files have been weeded prior to deposit in the archive.
Copies of printed committee resolutions and proceedings, and minutes and reports of York Council. These copies were compile by the Chief Public Health Inspector and include annotations next to items that relate to public health.
General administrative papers of the Medical Officer of Health
Comprises correspondence and associated papers for the York School Dental Service. The papers mainly concern administrative matters such as staffing, statistics, equipment, training, the organisation of the service, and various aspects of dental health. Includes minutes of the Education Committee, some external committees, and printed promotional literature. Contains some correspondence from patients.
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 as they are catalogued.
Published reports and plans for the Ouse and Foss Navigation Company. See Y/ENV/1/5 for more papers regarding the company.
Records relating to water pollution levels in York's waterways and drains.
At present this series only comprises Palatine Flood gauge sheets from 1935 to 1977.
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Comprises records relating to the inspection and oversight of common lodging houses.
Notebooks containing street names and house numbers
Comprises papers relating to the testing and regulation of fertilisers and feeding stuffs.
Comprises notifications and regulations relating to import and export of food.
Correspondence, circulars and associated papers relating to outbreaks of animal diseases.
Comprises papers relating to the oversight and inspection of meat, slaughterhouses and abattoirs.
City of York Council records relating to wildlife and the natural environment in York
Comprises background papers and correspondence
Rent receipt books for Gypsy caravan sites
Comprises records relating primarily to the accommodation and care of patients with mental health issues. Also includes a small number of records concerning York City Asylum.
Comprises papers relating to the accommodation and maintenance of adults and children with learning disabilities ('mental deficiency').
Includes reports from the Board of Control, The Incorporation of National Institutions for Persons Requiring Care and Control; The Royal Albert Institution in Lancaster; the Yorkshire Association for Mental Welfare; and the Mental After Care Association. Also includes minutes of the East Riding and York Joint Board for the Mentally Defective; a printed volume of medical PR actioners approved by the Board of Control; and copies of the Mental Deficiency Acts.
Papers concerning the provision of additional war-time nurseries in York.
Books recording routine inspections and inspections in response to complaints of unsanitary conditions in houses or other premises. Conditions inspected include privies, air quality, keeping of animals, offensive trades, and drains. Also record inspections of premises for overcrowding, and for sanitary conditions at the home accommodation of patients with infectious diseases. Indexed by street name at the start or back of each volume.
Form of instruction from the Medical Officer of Health to the Inspector of Nuisances to visit and report on sanitary conditions of dwellings. Details recorded in the reports varies over time but typically includes name of infected person, age, occupation, disease and various details about their living conditions.
Note: not all volumes are indexed. See also Y/HEA/4
Inspections and reports on drains, sanitary facilities and food hygiene.
Includes drainage papers, matron's reports, and correspondence files.
Records names and addresses of patients with infectious diseases.
Records of cases and sources of infection and transmissions.
North Yorkshire County Structure Plans, various stages.
Contains reports, studies and literature related to traffic, public transport and parking in York.
Sem títuloPapers relating to the planning and opening of the York Municipal Aerodrome at Clifton. Includes maps, designs and compulsory purchase agreements.
Includes documents regarding the future of the aerodrome after the Second World War, as well as documents regarding trespassers on the site.
Comprises papers relating to the building, widening, paving and general improvement of York's streets. Includes street renumbering records; and street improvement papers for the following areas: Castlegate and Water Lanes; Jubbergate; Spurriergate and Coney Street; Little Blake Street (Duncombe Place); Heslington Road; Gillygate, Skeldergate and Holgate Road; Monkgate and Layerthorpe.
Note only street improvements undertaken prior to the establishment of the Streets and Buildings Committee (i.e. up to c1890) have been catalogued. Later records relating to street improvements are currently uncatalogued.
Reports related to maintenance and restoriation of City of York council owned properties.
Includes individual case files and lists of prisoners.
Includes accommodation clearance registers, papers regarding billeting, annual reports, papers relating to atomic warfare, civil defence handbooks, general preparations for a nuclear attack, papers relating to the British Association, circulars, York Civil Defence Association, Civil Defence committee minutes, civil protection, competitions, conference papers, papers regarding Control Centres, correspondence files of Arthur Cooke (Civil Defence officer), general correspondence files, demonstration and protest papers, papers regarding Civil Defence equipment, evacuations scheme, exercises and training courses, mass experiments, financial papers (including insurance files), papers relating to the Fire Service, emergency feeding plans, Home Defence papers and correspondence, Head Office files, hospital organisation files, papers relating to Civil Defence in industry and infrastructure, inspection files, membership lists, copies of the Civil Defence Acts, year books, copies of the Civil Defence Officers Journal, Ministry of Health papers, minutes of the Civil Defence committee, papers of the Association of Municipal Corporations, reports and pamphlets relating to the nuclear threat, papers regarding nuclear tests, observations papers, premises files, publicity and recruitment files, papers regarding Hungarian refugees in York, remembrance files, staff resignation and transfer files, papers relating to the Scientific Intelligence Officers and Sector Controllers, shelter files, siren installation, staff papers, technical reconnaisance papers, correspondence with the Town Clerk, papers regarding Civil Defence vehicles, warden's files, the role of the Women's Voluntary Service, and the role of the Yorkshire Yeomanry.
Contains records created by the Streets and Buildings Committee and its sub-committees in the course of their business.
House inspection records for the Nunnery Lane Area. Include records for the following streets: Nunnery Lane; Cygnet Street; Dove Street; Caroline Street; Drake Street; and Spencer Street. Includes small, scale plans of properties.
Complete series of minute books of the corporation, traditionally known as "house books". The second series continues in a different format after municipal reform in 1835.
1 (1476-1479)
2, 3, 4 (1480-1486)
5 (1483-1489 [an additional volume]
6 (1486-1490)
7 (1490-1496)
8 (1496-1503)
9 (1503-1519)
10 (1519-1527)
11 (1527-1533)
12 (1533-1534)
13 (1534-1539)
13A (1539-1549)
14 (1540-1541)
15 (1541-1543)
16 (1543-1544)
17 (1544-1546)
18 (1546-1547)
19 (1547-1549)
20 (1549-1552)
21 (1552-1555)
22 (1556-1560)
23 (1560-1565)
24 (1565-1572)
25 (1572-1574)
26 (1154-1577)
27 (1577-1580)
28 (1580-1585)
29 (1585-1587)
30 (1587-1592)
31 (1592-1598)
32 (1598-1605)
33 (1605-1612)
34 (1613-1625)
35 (1625-1637)
36 (1637-1650)
37 (1650-1663)
38 (1663-1688)
39 (1688-1700)
40 (1692-1706)
41 (1706 -1719)
42 (1720-1738)
43 (1739-1756)
44 (1756-1780)
45 (1780-1792)
46 (1793-1803)
47 (1803-1811)
48 (1812-1821)
49 (1821-1827)
50 (1827-1835)
Stores Committee minutes
1 1920-34
2 1935-55
Stores & Purchasing Committee minutes
3 1955-63
4 1963-73
Smallholdings and Allotments Committee to 1922, Allotments Committee from 1922
1 1908-24
2 1924-49
3 1949-61
These volumes contain indexes.
1 1961-62
2 1963-74
Arranged chronologically into groups of years, as per the original arrangement.
Contains official publications and communications issued by City of York Education Committee
Volumes listed below
1 Markets Cttee (Cattle Fair Cttee) with accounts 1827-31
2 1836-65
3 1865-85
4 1885-95
5 1895-1907
6 1907-19
7 1919-30
8 1931-46
9 1946-53
10 1953-58
11 1958-1963
12 1963-73
Ouse Navigation Commissioners' Minute Book:
1727-78
Ouse Navigation Trustees' Minute Books:
1731-1753
1754-1778
1779-1834
1834-1837
Includes index.
The volumes contain indexes
1 1888-94
2 1895-1910
3 1910-1914
Volume is indexed.
General committee and committee appointed for the management of the revenues of the corporation
1 1805-1811
E77 1816-1828
E77a 1828-1835
These volumes contain indexes.
1 1836-47
2 1847-57
3 1857-68
4 1868-77
5 1877-84
6 1884-87
7 1887-90
8 1890-94
9 1894-97
10 1897-1900
11 1900-02
12 1902-05
13 1905-06
14 1906-08
15 1908-10
16 1910-13
17 1913-17
18 1917-21
19 1921-25
20 1925-31
Bound copy of act
Development Plan. Written Statement
Two bound copies of act
Bound copy of act
Statements of annual targets for North Yorkshire County Council including details of targets for each committee.
Wages books for members of staff of the council Education Committee.
At present this series only comprises papers regarding the Honorary Freedom bestowed on T C Benfield.
Wages books for members of staff of the Streets and Buildings Department of the council.
Wages books for members of staff of the council's Health Department.
Wages books for members of staff of the council Public Assistance team during the Second World War.
Wages books for members of staff of the council Welfare department, including Children's welfare, social welfare and general welfare volumes.
Papers concerning the establishment of the Public Assistance Committee and the transfer of responsibilities from the York Poor Law Union to York Council.
It is likely that these records relate to either St Thomas' Hospital or St Anthony's Hospital. One 1540, one fifteenth century and 2 undated.
The home was located in Acomb, and provided both residential care and respite care. Includes deceased resident files, day / night books, patients medical administration records, respite care patients files, residents accounts and cash movement sheets. Many of the files contain sensitive personal information.
Includes organisational materials for the festival, as well as promotion items (tickets, invitations to events, event programmes etc). Also includes some publicity material, including newspaper cuttings.