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Comprises booklets and loose sheets of City of York House inspection sheets for properties in improvement and clearance areas. Inspection sheet typically record the following details: address of property; names of occupiers/owners; occupation of occupier; total number of occupations; rent; size and condition of each room in the house.

Images of housing in York, including the demolition of houses in front of silo in Garden Place, Hungate

This series primarily includes rules and bye-laws pertaining to the Humber Conservancy.

General administrative papers concerning clearance areas. Includes correspondence; committee papers; reports; summaries; and housing programme papers.

Papers relating to the improvement of rental properties.

Report sheets for cases of infectious disease including paratyphoid and pulmonary tuberculosis, diphtheria and enteric disease, meningitis, Giardia Lamblia, hepatitis and dysentery.

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

Notebooks used by housing inspectors to record rough notes on visits to individual properties in The Groves , Layerthorpe and Walmgate. The books appear to be notes of visits carried out in response to objections when a house was declared unfit.

Includes place of registration, masters name and owners name and address. First volume missing.

Comprises correspondence; conveyances and other legal papers regarding the conveyance of land and street improvements in Jubbergate.

A collection of lantern slides belonging to York's first full-time Medical Officer of Health, Edmund Moody Smith. The collection includes slides of patients with infectious diseases, model housing, health services, graphs and statistics and information slides.

Copies of letters sent by the River Manager.

Papers relating to the widening and improvement of Little Blake Street (Duncombe Place).

Papers of the Local Board of Health regarding an enquiry into the erection of a public slaughterhouse in York. Includes initial enquiry and replies from other local authorities; list of complaints against private slaughterhouses in York; particulars of animals slaughtered in York; reports of the Sub-Committee on Slaughterhouses; and a petition from butchers in York against the erection of a public slaughterhouse.

Registers of electors eligible to vote in local government elections.

The magazine was usually issued three times a year and contained articles, details of sports competitions, school rolls and information on the Old Boys' Association. Incomplete set with some duplicate editions.

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

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

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

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

Files containing correspondence created during Alderman Richard Scruton's term of office as Lord Mayor of York. Box also contains itemised list of correspondence contained within.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Correspondence and associated papers relating to administrative matters of the Joint Board and the management of Whixley Institution for the Mentally Deficient. May contain some references to patients/cases.

Minutes of meetings of the Civil Defence Assocation, including committee meetings.

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

One volume:

1: 1664-1665

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

Includes information on absent voters, staff, polling, proxy lists, printing, expenses, premises, nominations and casual vacancies.

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

Registers of electors eligible to vote in municipal elections. Please note, these items are a duplicate set of registers - our full set of registers can be found in the Archives Reading Room.

Papers relating to the administrations and oversight of Murton Abattoir in York.

Comprises duplicate notices served to owners of properties signalling the Council's intention to take possession of properties.

Reports on the Nevada test detonation in May 1955, and the tests in the Pacific Ocean in the 1950s.

Volumes 1 to 6 of the journal.

Includes papers regarding the organisation of hospitals and hospital-based exercises. Also includes associated correspondence.

Includes report of the Ouse Navigation Committee to York City Council, with a map of the river, September 1881; plan of the Ouse from York to Hull; report by Thoman Rhodes, C.E with map of River Ouse from Linton Lock to Selby, 1834; report by Thomas Rhode

Includes returns regarding traffic through Naburn lock. Also includes details of commodities, tonnage and dues, as well as some quarterly and annual returns.

Complete series of sheets for the period. There are a number of sheets per year, and include a pen-drawn line showing the water levels. Scale half inch to one foot. Sheets for 1939 are missing.

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Includes papers relating to premises owned or hired by the York Civil Defence Association. Also includes plans and maps relating to the construction of garages for the Civil Defence Corps.

Contains general correspondence regarding the sale of equipment and the closure of the Civil Defence Corps.

Includes files relating to toxic agents, features of an atomic bomb, radioactive products, a report on the British mission to Japan and the Windscale accident.

Includes correspondence and circulars relating to Civil Defence in industry.

Includes papers relating to individual members of staff, payments, staff uniforms and the staff training college. Also includes information relating to volunteers.

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

Includes an introduction to the society and an incomplete set of reunion dinner menus, 1947-1961. Reunions were held twice a year, in Spring and November.

Includes papers relating to the Association of Civil Defence officers and the Civil Defence Association, as well as information about the re-organisation of Civil Defence in York in 1967.

Includes papers relating to counts, polling, postal votes, Officer guests, ARO's papers, correspondence, claims and expenses, election regulations, verification slips, ballot paperworks, Proxy lists, details of absent voters and election nominations.

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 ballot slips, polling results and regulations and expenses.

Includes ballots, writs, forms, polling paperwork, Local Government Review, postal vote paperwork, paperwork regarding election counting and expenses, posters, staff paperwork, correspondence, election nominations and postcards.

Incomplete series of registers of electors eligible to vote in parliamentary elections. Please note, these items are a duplicate set of registers - our full set of registers can be found in the Archives Reading Room.

Registers of electors eligible to vote in parochial elections. Please note, these items are a duplicate set of registers - our full set of registers can be found in the Archives Reading Room.

Black and white photographs of slaughterhouses in York. Includes images of slaughterhouses in Barbican Place, and Clementhorpe

Photographs of year 11 school pupils (1992) and headmistresses (1930s-1960s).

Architectural plans for Brandesburton Hall, Home for the Mentally Defective.

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]

Includes papers relating to Washington Hall (the Home Office training centre in Lancashire) and York Mansion House.

Press cuttings relating to civil defence air raids during World War Two (1939 - 1941).

Printed sections of the Poor Law Act, 1930 relating to the Yorkshire Casual Poor Assistance Authority

Incomplete set - includes programmes for 'The Pirates of Penzance,' 'The Yeoman of the Guard,' 'The Gondoliers,' 'The Winters Tale', 'Ruddigore' and 'King Lear.'

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.

Public Health educational slides. Images include individuals with infectious diseases (chickenpox, measles and measles), warnings of fire hazards and pushchair hazards, and microscopic images. Also includes two black and white photographs of narrow alleyway and small printed health education slogans regarding cancer.

Publications and associated correspondence about their production. Arranged into chronological bundles.

Includes annual bundles of files for cases heard at the York Quarter Sessions.

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

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

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.

Miscellaneous receipts and vouchers relating to expenses incurred by the York School of Art.

Includes procedures for reconnaisance parties.

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

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

Includes papers relating to Hungarian refugees in the York area, and the role of the York Hungarian relief committee.

Register of licences granted in the licensing district of the county of the City of York. Includes street and parish, sign of house, description of licence, value of premises, holder of licence and changes. Contain index by name of licence holder.

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

Registers of premises, dairymen and cowkeepers

Registers of dangerous drugs received and dispensed at Clifford Street Dispensary

Housing inspection reports for properties in clearance areas or under compulsory purchase orders.