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

Deangate - traffic congestion and issues near to York Minster.

Exhibition Square - development of the Exhibition Hall, notes from Hugh Murray regarding the opening of the Exhibition Hall.

Lendal - historic buildings and Judges Lodgings. Includes references by Hugh Murray.

Relating to York Museums.

Relating to York Minster.

Contains cuttings relating to York and elsewhere.

Photocopy of a newspaper cuttings volume, with index. It is not known exactly which volume the copies relate to, or its provenance.

The cuttings all relate to heraldry.

The cuttings all relate to York University heraldry and corporate heraldry.

The cuttings are all from magazines and cover a variety of different topics.

Includes St Helen's Square, St Leonard's Place, St Martin's Lane, St Maurice's Road, St Mary's, St Peters Grove and St Sampson's Square.

Includes St Saviourgate, St Saviour's Place, Shambles, Skeldergate, Silver Street, South Parade and Spurriergate.

Includes Pavement, Peasholme Green and Peter Lane.

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.

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.

Includes 'Old York' (possibly list of slides shown in a talk); notes for the talk 'Servicing the Suburbs' (as they developed); Hungate; Victorian York; development of suburbs; 19th century York; Acomb, Clifton, Haxby Road, Huntington Road, Heworth, Bishopthorpe Road, Fulford and Dringhouses. Each talk note has a list of numbered and named slides.

Includes Lendal Bridge and the Minster; the Bridges of York; River Ouse; bridges and the Foss.

Includes details of seven separate talks, with information about the compilation of slides, evidently to quiz the audience and test their awareness of York.

Includes a scrapbook 1885-1985, as well as two files of notes relating to York suburbs.

Handwritten notes on Heslington Hall, including a wallet of notes with extracts from a number of books.

Full size copy of Country Life article on Heslington Hall from 19 July 1913. Also includes a short document describing the proposed site for the University of York.

Bundle of notes extracted from undefined sources (M23/1) with extracts from the records of the Assembly Rooms. The notes start in 1730 with the purchase of Mr George Gibson's house on Finkle Street to enable a passage to be built for drains. Ends 1773 (marked as p155 of the original source).

A detailed list of firectories of York and Yorkshire (which include York) from 1781 to 1975. Also list of Yorkshire Directories 1781-1940 from the North Yorkshire County Libraries Holdings. Some duplicate copies.

Research notes and photographs relating to numbers 19, 30 and 32 Goodramgate.

Research notes and photographs about the history of Skeldergate.

Family pedigrees for Acastre; Atkinson; Akenhead; Armitage; Archer and Aitken.

Family pedigrees for Agar.

Family pedigrees for Anderson (including Yorkshire Herald cutting from 28 August 1913 reporting the death of Dr. Tempest Anderson); Angel. Also includes secondary source material and articles on the history of Tempest Anderson.

Notes, photocopies and pedigrees for: Burkill; Boulton; Bushell; Busby; Balmford; Barstow; Boddy; Barlow; Burke; Border; Butterworth; Benson; Backhouse; Brown and Brook.

Notes, photocopies and pedigrees for: Baker; Brown; Bentley; Bromley; Banwell; Booth; Bohun; Bentley; Barnett; Burdekin; and Barra.

Notes, photocopies and pedigrees for: Bowman.

Working papers, documents, letters and pedigrees for: Daniel; Dacre; Dixon; Driffield; Ditmas; Dove; Duke; Dillon; Daley; Dean; Dibb and Dealtry.

Working papers, documents, letters and pedigrees for: Ellis; Elcock; and Ellison.

Working papers, documents, letters and pedigrees for: Faulkner; Fairclough; Fleming; Fairfax; Flower and Fisher.

Working papers, documents, letters and pedigrees for: Harton; Hurworth; Heselwood; Howard/Hornsey; Hartley; Geo. Hudson; Hemmens; Hutchinson; Hick; Hebden; Hibbert; Hayes; Husband; Hansom; Harrowell; Hassard; Halfpenny; House; Heaton; Hollow; Harker; Hawt

Working papers, documents, letters and pedigrees for: Keld and Knowles.

Working papers, documents, letters and pedigrees for: Leeman, including correspondence with Reg and Andrea Leeman, photocopies of wills, indenture, conveyance, several birth marriage and death certificates, letters fromPhilip and Walter Leeman, press cutt

Working papers, documents, letters and pedigrees for: Leetham (including documents and birth certificate, press cuttings) and Lacy.

Working papers, documents, letters and pedigrees for: Mangy; Morine; Meadley; Moody; Moore; Mills; Matthews; Morris; Mouncer; Meyer; Morritt and Milling.

Working papers, documents, letters and pedigrees for: Monkhouse; Munby; Mahalski and Melrose.

Working papers, documents, letters and pedigrees for: Procter; Penty; Philipson; Pulleyn; Patterson; Purnell; Pumphrey; Piercy; Peacock and Pedlar.

Working papers, documents, letters and pedigrees for: Varvill and Varvills of Norfolk and Durham.

Working papers, documents, letters and pedigrees for: Walker; Wightman; Wilde; Waddington; Wentworth; Wilson H.A. (St. Olave's School); Wilkinson; Wright; Ware; Wood; Whitworth; Watson; Whip(p); Weadley and Wilson (Harold Wilson, Prime Minister).

Includes pedigrees for Tancred, Fairfax, Constable of Wasand, Constable of Flamborough, Clare, Wilberforce, Hamilton, Manners, Lords of Tanfield, Mulgrave, Parker, de Portington, de Rythre, Scrope, Shireburn, Vavasour, Rokeby, Danby, Kilton and Skelton, Strickland and Lascelles.

Includes pedigrees for Vavasour and Hazelwood; Washington; Talbot; Skelbrooke; the descent of Fountains Abbey; Grey; Upsall; Osgodby; and various notes on less well known families.

The genealogies relate to Freemen of York.

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.

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.

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

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.

History of number plate DN7.

Handwritten research notes compiled by Hugh Murray.

The cuttings relate to the launch of Hugh Murray's book on historic pubs in and around York.

Held in a ringbinder folder. Includes newspaper cuttings and handwritten notes.

Notes on the wills of goldsmiths, arranged alphabetically.

Papers grouped by Hugh Murray: notes and photocopies of Huntington Collection, York, silverware by Mrs E.M. Sessions; Sessions correspondence regarding York silver booklist; list of Freemen Goldsmiths; photocopy of 'Notes on printers and printing'; and typed list of York Silversmiths.

Directory of York Goldsmiths and Silversmiths by H. Murray, as well as an article on Christopher Harrington, York 1614. Includes a list of names.

Prints from the York Cemetery website, including Shona's funeral order of service, Kath Hamer's funeral, 1979 Conveyance of Liquidation of York Cemetery company; Guide to best practice: Burial plans and memorials; list of organisations and diocese and Hugh Murray notes on catacombs.

Includes trades and occupations listed in cemetery; manuscript list of names; standard trails for schools - guidance and trails; site plan of the masons' workshop; and a list entitled 'Box 29'.

Details of monumental inscriptions 'A-G'.

Details of monumental inscriptions 'PP-ZZ' and 'Southwell SW'.

Includes plans of the cemetery spaces. Arranged by area.

Articles relating to bridges and rivers.

Yorkshire Evening Press supplements for the Silver Jubilee, 1977; York in 1893, 1993; Queen Anne School, 1910-2000, 2000; Yesterday York, 2007; and York from the Air, 2000.

Correspondence concerning Hugh Murrays Whittock publication. Also includes a typescript copy of the text.

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.

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

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

Fishergate - gasworks explosion, military activity and Redfearn chimney demolition.

Foss islands Road - fortifications and housing.

Fossgate - images of property development, bridge renovations and the Merchant Adventurers Hall.

Goodramgate - Guild of Freemen parade, history of the street, handwritten notes of Hugh Murray and the development of Deansgate.

Heworth - buildings, car parking and gas works.

Holgate Road - housing development.

Huntington Road - workhouse issues and Alfred Dickens home.

Kings Staith - building development.

Layerthorpe District - development of the area, including the gas supply. Includes references by Hugh Murray.

Lord Mayors Walk - development of junction.

Railways - mainly York but a few cuttings in UK and world. Includes locomotives, buildings, George Hudson and Alne station 1937 photo.

Includes Station Rise, Station Road, Stonebow, Stonegate, Tadcaster Road, Tanners Moat, Tanner Street, Terry Avenue, Swinegate and Tower Street.

Includes Parliament Street and Patrick Pool.

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 heraldry and what appears to be prominent families.

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.

Notes for a walk around the Bishophill area to the Knavesmire; as well as St George's Field, Fishergate, Fulford Rd and side streets, barracks, Fulford High Street, Naburn; Walmgate Bar, Lawrence St, Hull Rd to the Beeswing pub, Hull Road, Nunnery Lane, Victoria Bar, Dove St, Terry Avenue, Nunthorpe Rd., Bishopthorpe Rd., Rowntree Park, Nunthorpe Hall and school and the Terry's factory.

Includes documents relating to Bootham; Clifton; Holgate and Acomb; Clifton Airfield; Haxby Road; Holgate Road; Holgate and Acomb; Clifton II; The Mount and Dringhouses. Includes details of numbered slides to be shown and explanatory observations.

Includes 46 Burton Stone Lane planning permission documents; short guide to Bootham Park Hospital and 'York Explore' brochure.

Includes manuscript notes; newspaper cuttings; 'A Short History of Bedern Hall' by Lawrie Watson; city map; off print of a book by LP Wenham; papers relating to the possible demolition of the Bedern chapel; correspondence with Peter Hanstock and George Whipp; off prints on Bedern Hall (various); and original file with notes in manuscript.

A series of eight handwritten notes or copied sources relating to Heslington Hall. Includes an article from Country Life dated 2nd September 1971; reprint from Historic Houses of Yorkshire and Lincolnshire by G.J.M. FitzJohn entitled 'Heslington Hall'; geneaological notes of the Reresby family; copy of Heslington - A Rural Poem; and an Old Peterite dinner invitation 1983.