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Includes books for the following dates: 1478-9 and 1497

Includes minutes; plaint books; court books and papers; declarations, pleadings and other documents; recognizances; calendars of prisoners; and judgement papers

Records relating to the York Court of Record. Includes Cash Books, Appearance Book, Judgement Rolls Court Registers, Account Book etc.

Includes individual case files and lists of prisoners.

Includes photographs of various structures and monuments in York. The monuments are individually listed.

Reports related to maintenance and restoriation of City of York council owned properties.

Reports related to maintenance and restoriation of City of York council owned properties.

Bound volumes of specifications for contracts to tender, arranged chronologically, and covering all forms of civic maintenance.

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Contracts for maintenance work in council buildings. Includes plans and correspondence where appropriate.

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Comprises records of the Health Department and Town Clerk relating to housing clearances and improvements in York. Includes overcrowding surveys; surveys of underground room; registers of Housing Inspectors' reports and register of unfit houses; general administrative papers relating to clearances and improvements; clearances papers (many of which include plans); improvement papers; house inspection records; clearance photographs; and papers relating to the improvement of rental properties.

Draft reports of inspections carried out by the Health Department. Reports include name/s of owners/occupiers and condition of houses. Some reports include plans and/or measurements.

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.

Comprises house inspection records for Bilton Street, Duke of York Street, Cross Court, Hallfield Road (no. 15 only)and Redeness Street (no. 56 only). Records include house inspection sheets; notifications of drain inspections; correspondence; recommended works and notices to execute works; and small scale-plans for some properties.

Comprises house inspection records for Layerthorpe; Hallfield Road; Hallfield Terrace; Duke of York Street; Hart's Terrace; Kidd's Terrace; St Cuthbert's Road; Chicory Yard; and Redeness Street.

Includes plans of the improvement area; schedules of required works; Bye-Law for preventing overcrowding; summaries of area (including houses to be demolished and level of overcrowding); correspondence; reports to the Unhealthy Areas Sub-Committees; summaries of overcrowded houses (including size of bedrooms and numbers of occupants); letters to establish owners; Layerthorpe Clearance Area: reports of the Medical Officer of Health and the Chief Sanitary Inspector used at an Enquiry [8-9 Mar 1932}]; papers concerning various properties in Layerthorpe and Bilton Street belonging to one owner; also draft summaries and notes/

Files created by City of York Council related to Local Plans.

Contains records created by the Streets and Buildings Committee and its sub-committees in the course of their business.

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.

Volumes listing brief descriptions of planning applications

Files created by City of York Council related to town planning.

Files created by City of York Council related to development in York

North Yorkshire County Structure Plans, various stages.

Files created by City of York Council related to conservation of buildings and areas.

Records of vehicle licensing and registration, including motor cars and motorcycles, and heavy vehicles. Some registers combine cars and motorcycles, whilst others contain just one or the other, so more than one volume may need to be consulted to cover the same licence plate or year range. Registers occasionally include cancellation and transfer dates, plus occasional inserted correspondence.

We are able to provide certified copies of entries for a fee, please see our website or contact us for futher details.

Four of the 28 volumes are restricted under the Data Protection Act (Y/PPT/3/1/9, Y/PPT/3/1/21 to 23 covering the period 1948-1959) Researchers may consult these volumes after filling in a Data Protection Researcher Exemption form. This form may take up to 48 hours to be authorised so please contact us in advance if you wish to see these volumes.

Contains reports, studies and literature related to traffic, public transport and parking in York.

Report on a central area traffic scheme

Final Report, volumes one and two.

Reports related to road accidents in York

Reports, studies and development opportunities related toYork Inner Ring Road

Photographs documenting progress on construction of York Outer Ring Road

Papers 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.

This series contains archaeological reports relating to excavations within the City of York Council area. It is believed that the reports were commissioned by the City Archaeologist as part of the planning process. Work on the excavations was carried out by a number of third party contract archaeologists.

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).

Papers concerning the establishment of the Public Assistance Committee and the transfer of responsibilities from the York Poor Law Union to York Council.

Records relating to poor relief prior to the Poor Law Amendment Act, 1834. Further historical and modern records will be added to this section as they are catalogued.

Includes minutes; accounts and relief assessments.

See ref: PLU for poor relief records relating to the York Poor Law Union and the Public Assistance Committtee (1837-1960s).

Records relating to poor relief after the Poor Law Amendment Act,1834. For records of the York Poor Law Union [1837-1930] and Public Assistance Committee [1930-1948] see reference: PLU

Comprises records of the Yorkshire Casual Poor Assistance Authority.

Account rolls for St Anthony's hospital for years 1592-1595, 1611-1614, 1617-1620.
Four account rolls belonging to one of the hospital (which exactly is unclear): One 1540, one fifteenth century and 2 undated.

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.

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.

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.

Comprises files relating to the building and maintenance of council housing, particularly in the post-World War II period. Files consist primarily of correspondence and associated papers. .

At present this series only contains one offer letter for a council house, dated 1927. Please see item-level descriptions for more detailed information.