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Articles relating to almshouses, abbatoirs, canals and assizes.

Issues of the York Evening Press, relating to fires and flooding in York.

Photocopies of Court Rolls, 1447, 1700 and 1852, as well as photocopies of maps of Water Fulford 1745 and 1860-1870.

Includes notes and photocopies relating to Hugh Murrays publication of Whittock's panoramic view of York.

Opening of the New Yorkshire Evening Press building by Princess Alexandra.

In four parts.

Programme summary (15 June-8 July).

Relates to the Knavesmire Tattoo 13-18 September 1971.

Supplement of photographs.

Celebration of 500 Years of York Minster.

Newspaper cuttings relating to Civic Trust plaques and other plaques: Herbert House, George Hudson, Garforth House (photo of John Shannon), observatory, Abbey Wall, King's Square, Dick Turpin; Mansion House; Richard III; BR Eastern Region HQ; Jewish massacre; York Station (including a photo of Nikolaus Pevsner) and York Minster Gates.

Cuttings relating to almshouses, abbattoir, canals and assizes.

York bridges and rivers - Ouse, Foss, old bridges and new including Naburn Lock photo 1888. Also includes a photo of the opening of Skeldergate Bridge 1881, the Ouse Ferry, flood defences, barges, riverside walks, Hill's boatyard, new by-pass and ring road, engraving of collapsed Lendal Bridge 1861 and York Waterworks.

Black and white print, 11 x 8 cms
Provenance: None
Duplicates: Yes
Type of item: Modern copy, also large copy 25.5x20 cms

5 smaller and one larger copy of photograph. Note that the larger copy, and 3 of the smaller ones are captioned. On the smaller ones that are captioned 'Ransom' is spelt without the 'e' at the end. Larger photograph caption indicates that the pilgrimage/parade ended at the Knavesmire (Tyburn). Captions on two of the smaller copies indicate that the photograph was taken 'before 1909'.

2 images of bill of sale from the George Inn (landlord David Winn) totalling 2 pounds, 1 shilling, 1 pence for food and drink
Format: Black and white, 11 x 8
Provenance: Unknown

1 image of bill of sale from the Golden Punch Bowl, Stonegate (landlord Richardson) for drinks and tobacco, totalling 3 shillings 2 pence.

View from Foss Bridge. Evelyn Collection. Copyright: YAYAS. RCHME.
Format: Black and white, 22 x 17
Provenance: Unknown

2 copies, 1 is enlarged.

Books published on York's history, buildings and families, including news reviews and details of books of photos.

Blossom Street - building developments; financial problems of Bar Convent; issues related to No. 40 Blossom Street.

Castlegate - development of Fairfax House, work of the Civic Trust, other historic buildings, and notes of Hugh Murray.

Clarence Street cuttings, including Mrs Shaw planting a memorial tree.

Clementhorpe - redevelopment of the Terry's site, and river views with buildings.

Coffee Yard - renovation of Barley Hall and the history of Coffee Yard.

Colliergate - historic buildings and account of the fire of 1839.

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

Dalton Terrace - funeral of Emily Houden, and letters from Hugh Murray to York Evening Press regarding naming Dalton Terrace.

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.

Haxby Road - removal of Rowntrees Cocoa sign.

Heslington - Tillmire Common dispute.

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

Little Stonegate development issues.

Rowntree family - Homestead Park, centenary news item and large folded 'Masterplan' of Rowntree Park by Landscape Design Associates of Peterborough for City of York Council, 2000.

Old York' - large miscellaneous bundle, including school groups, transport, individuals, incidents, sports teams, war damage and shops.

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.

A number of documents about the early activity in the Assembly Rooms. Includes a photocopy of the 1729 list and account of interest and arrears with Subscription list of 1777, listing the 190 original subscribers and the present proprietors. Also includes a List of Nobility and Gentry appearing at the Assembly Rooms in the Race Week of 1776.

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).

Book entitled 'The King's Manor' reprinted from Royal Commission on Historial Monuments 'City of York' vol IV. Also includes a letter from John West-Taylor dated 22 January 1985 from the University of York to York Civic Trust entitled 'An appeal to restore the fabric of the King's Manor'.

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.

Handwritten and typed letters to and from Val Portas.

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.

Two press cuttings.

Two press cuttings.

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.

York Goldsmiths and Silversmiths: A first alphabetical check list compiled by Hugh Murray.

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

Includes Driffield Memorial Company accounts December 1952-December 1955, including sheets of accounts of York Cemetery Company and Memorandum of Association June 1952-December 1955. Also includes correspondence and printed accounts.