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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 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).

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Duncombe Place - renovation of the Red House.

Earlsborough Terrace - sale of the Abbey Guest House.

Groves - general history of area.

Hungate - archaeological dig and development.

James Street - housing development.

Jubbergate - White Rose restaurant issues.

Leeman Road - tree demolition.

York and District (e.g. Elvington and Castle Howard) stained glass and medieval art - artists, designers and glass itself, including York Minster and parish churches.

The cuttings all relate to Roman Catholic heraldry, Papal heraldry and York Minster heraldry.

Includes Petergate, Piccadilly, Pump Court, Queens Staithe, Queen Street, Regent Street, Rougier Street and St Andrewgate.

Includes Trinity Lane, Walmgate, Wellington Row, Whipmawhopmagate and other streets.

Includes Micklegate Stray, Monkgate and the Mount.

Includes an advert for Brasso.
Black and white print, in 3 different sizes.
Provenance: None
Duplicates: Yes
Type of item: Modern copy, see Hugh Murray 'The Horse Tramways of York', 1980, pp 2 &54; 15.5x11, 9x14 and 18x13 cms

Photographs are of the same scene, but include a close-up view showing the horse tram in more detail, and a wider view showing the street scene. Two of the photographs are captioned 'Daylight' on the back.

Entitled 'Readings by 'Sequa'. Includes notes, press cuttings and additional papers relating to many aspects of York; lectures, tours, wartime matters and the York Festival.

Includes papers relating to The Retreat, Old Baile, Bar Convent, Peasholme House, St Martin's Coney Street Vicarage, Guildhall (1935-1938), George Hotel (1855), St Oswald's Fulford, Assize Courts, The Retreat, Riverside development and York Mansion House.

Includes registers of the Bedern, York 1682-1868, transcribed by Rev N B Pace.

Includes a draft document on Bedern by Julian Richards with note attached, as well as catalogue of deeds and indentures and maps and plans of the street with notes.

Includes Bedern rents and title deeds: manuscript notes (tied up with picture cord), as well as original file with notes in manuscript.

Bedern scale measurements, including measure from 1852 map 1:1056 (5ft: 1 miles). Also includes drawings and photocopied maps (1852 map).

Includes details from street directories (York) 1851, 1872, 1876, 1893, 1949-50 (sections only) as well as manuscript notes and photocopies.

Papers relating to the bank in Coney St. Swann Clough & Co, Coney St, existed till 1879 and was taken over by Beckett's. The site was bought in 1746 and a house built on it. It was later sold in 1771 to Samuel Compton of Derby and used as bank known successively (1771-1802) as Crompton's, Garforth's and Raper's, or (accounts differ) Willoughby, Raper & Co., including Clough & Swann as partners.

Typed manuscript document titled 'Heslington Hall and its owners during the past four centuries'. Numbered paged 1-52. Includes handwritten corrections and one inserted page of notes by John Bowes Morrell.

A series of six handwritten notes or copied sources on Heslington Hall including undated sale document; notes on the Eynns family; York Civic Trust Plans for the a 'Folk Park' in the grounds of Heslington Hall; and press cuttings from the York Evening Press dated 14 July 1981 about the RAF in Heslington.

A collection of copied documents and notes on the Old Nunthorpe estate off the Bishopthorpe Road, including details of the 1902 sale, with maps, and Hugh Murray's notes on residents taken from street directories. The residents mentioned include George Lawton, William Lawton, Sir Wilfred Forbes Home Thompson, Bart., T.F. Wood and J.W. Proctor.

Two typed letters from Chessingham Estates (The White House, Bishopthorpe), signed Michael Hammill BSc ARICS, to S. Heppell Esq., 29 Broadway West, Fulford Road, enquiring about houses on the corner of Lawrence Street and Foss Island Road and the Ideal Laundry Site on Trinity Lane.

Photocopied articles, house plans and extracts from street directories for Elm Bank House on the Mount. Also includes press cuttings.

File of newspaper articles relating to prominent York buildings.

Booklets on York business histories, as well as York tradesmen's billheads and histories; miscellaneous papers on the history of York and press cuttings relating to York businesses.

Handwritten notes on York streets, listed alphabetically from Abbey Court to Ayre's Yard, as well as a brief bibliography of background reading.

Handwritten notes.

Research notes on the Hungate slum clearance.

Research notes and newspaper cuttings on Skeldergate.

Notes, photocopies and pedigrees for Berry; Burton; Barclay; Blackburn; Bathurst; Brearley; Benson; Broxup; Birch; Baines (see Graham); Barber; Bwye; and Balmford.

Working papers, documents, letters and pedigrees for: Croft; Chapman; Coates and Chicken (Richard).

Working papers, documents, letters and pedigrees for: Cobb; Close; Creed; Cattle and Cabry.

Working papers, documents, letters and pedigrees for: Camidge (Cammidge, Camage); Castle (Jennison) and Curran.

Working papers, documents, letters and pedigrees for: Duke; de Lom; Dobbie; Dodsworth; Davies; Downe (Viscountess, obituary); and Dealtry of York, Judges Lodgings.

Working papers, documents, letters and pedigrees for: Etty.

Working papers, documents, letters and pedigrees for: Edward Nathanial Green (1847 copy); Galamoor; Giles; Goodson; Gowland; Gray; Goldie; Gutch; Hewley; Graham; Greenwood and Galloway.

Working papers, documents, letters and pedigrees for: Hesketh; Halliday; Horsley; Hardman; Hebblethwaite; Hey; Hunt; Hearon and Hutchenson (intermarried).

Working papers, documents, letters and pedigrees for: Harwood; Harton (Arton & Hayrton); Hanson; Hill; Horsman; Hargrave; Hargrove; Hardcastle and Hodgson.

Working papers, documents, letters and pedigrees for: Kilby (including Page); Kaye; Kay family and correspondence with Willian Kaye Sessions); Key and Kirk.

Working papers, documents, letters and pedigrees for: Linfoot; Lyth and Laverach.

Working papers, documents, letters and pedigrees for: Leeman - grouped seperately from HMU/1/32 by Hugh Murray. Includes photocopies regarding Leeman memorial including Murray's papers, notes on George Leeman, notes and photocopies regarding a proposed st

Working papers, documents, letters and pedigrees for: Nickson; Noble; Noton and Noyes; Oates; Oloman; Oldfield and Oliver.

Working papers, documents, letters and pedigrees for: Rowntree (two files entitled 'old inf.' and 'others').

Working papers, documents, letters and pedigrees for: Rotherford; Robinson; Roper; Rowlerson; Ralphs; Rowel; Rougier and Reilly.

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.

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.

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

Handwritten notes on the reverse of personal correspondence. Includes coloured maps of York with some sort of referencing to pubs, pubs in York listed by A to Z of street names, list of Licensed Premises in the City of York (January 1969), History of Starre Inn, and an article entitled 'A Genuine and Superior Article: The Last Two Centuries of Brewing in York'.

Photocopy of 'Old English Plate' pp. 101-127; list of Goldsmith Freemen (arranged chronologically); photocopy of 'The Plate of the City Companies of York' by Charles Oman.

Photocopies of documents relating to English Plate, Acts of Pariament and York Memorandum Books re quality control. Includes a list of marks on York plate.

List of jewellers and goldsmiths, under the jurisdiction of York Dean and Chapter, as well as passages from York House Books regarding goldsmiths and associated correspondence.

Includes printed leaflets; Friends of the Cemetery guided tours 1993-1999 (much duplication); documents containing general information, and papers regarding cemetery care.

Correspondence regarding Hugh Murray's book 'This garden of death'. Also includes despatch notes, publishers quotes and associated details.

Includes policy documents; education finding correspondence; press cuttings about public interest in cemeteries; Memorial Mason registration; Rymers press cuttings and notes on internment.

Copy of 'Monuments and memorials' by C E Hessey (d.1874). 2 copies.

Includes VAT refund correspondence; act to further to amend the laws concerning the Burial of the Dead 14 August 1855; plans for public use and access; description of conditions in York 19th century to the 1930s; notes by Hugh Murray and architects drawings of the Gatehouse and Lodge.

Wardens Reports, as well as minutes and agendas.

Wardens Reports, as well as minutes and agendas.

Handwritten notes regarding ground work and maintenance at York Cemetery.

Handwritten notes and photocopies of photographs.

Photocopies of maps.

Correspondence and invoices regarding 'This Garden of Death' by Hugh Murray.

Copies of legal documents (including probate) relating to the Johnson family, as well as correspondence and notes.

Correspondence with Entrust, the Environmental Trust Scheme regulatory body.

Handwritten exercise book listing mainly graves in 'Children's Corner'.

Includes details of trustee responsibilities; grave maintenance service; interview documents for an admin assistant; plans of York Cemetery Gatehouse; glossary of words used on epitaphs; and papers for the Past Generations pack.

Includes education service leaflets; guided tour information 1997-1998; balance sheets 1993-2001 (incomplete set) and meeting papers (incomplete set).

City of York Council planning application for the restoration of the Chapel, 1990 and Ronald G. Sims architect's drawing of the restoration of the cemetery gatehouse.

Includes early correspondence and legal documents; as well as regulations; licences for removal of human remains and reburial.

Details of monumental inscriptions 'H-T'.

Includes original plans of the cemetery spaces.

Includes original plans of the cemetery spaces.

Sections HH and JJ.

Compiled by the City of York and District Family History Society, and revised by David Poole. Sections FF and GG.

Compiled by the City of York and District Family History Society and Hugh Murray. Sections NW, AA, BB, CC and DD.

Includes plans of the cemetery spaces. Arranged by area.