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Miscellaneous regarding trails. Some notes and handwritten.

Includes original plans of the cemetery spaces.

Includes original plans of the cemetery spaces.

Includes colour coded plans of the cemetery spaces.

Includes colour coded plans of the cemetery spaces.

Includes details of changes in burial law, and report on the structural integrity of Lawn Memorial headstones.

Includes papers on the responsibility of charity trustees, papers relating to the Friends of York Cemetery, and some copies of documentation relating to deceased persons.

Compiled by David Poole. Section OO.

Compiled by David Poole. Section NN.

Compiled by David Poole. Sections KK, LL and MM.

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.

Sections W, X, Y and Z.

Sections U and V.

Contains newspaper coverage of relevant stories.

Papers relating to the liquidation of the cemetery company. Includes copies of correspondence, research notes and newspaper cuttings.

Research notes into the history of the cemetery. Includes copies of correspondence and newspaper cuttings.

Also includes typed extracts from annual reports and additional correspondence.

Includes plans of the cemetery spaces. Arranged by area.

Includes plans of the cemetery spaces. Arranged by area.

Includes plans of the cemetery spaces. Arranged by area.

Includes extracts from the minute books.

Includes table of fees and charges. 2 copies.

Includes correspondence with people erecting memorials etc.

Two bundles of general correspondence.

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.

Includes York Cemetery, maps, plans, aerial photograph and isometric plan, as well as headstone and monument designs. Also includes mourning hearse, share certificates (copies) and notes in Hugh Murray's hand.

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

Copy of a dissertation entitled 'The contemporary role of York Cemetery' by Robert M Tuke.

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

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.

Correspondence and press cuttings between ABA and John Bradfield about funeral laws and practice including green burials, boundaries and public footpaths.

Includes plan, marked out in purchase and consercration dates; Act to amend the burial acts 25 August 1857; plans and proof of cemetery 'trails'; printed trails 2-6 (multiple copies) and additional pamphlets.

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 Cemetery hall file with manuscript notes in Hugh Murray's hand; and plan of cemetery with locations of graves of York Mayors and descriptions / mini biographies.

Includes historical notes; Deed of Settlement 1924; notes on the history of York Cemetery; correspondence; extracts from minute books 1952-1966; list of types of tombs and other notes; Cemetery trail leaflets and papers regarding the chronology of the cemetery.

Includes papers regarding individuals; list of graves and locations (with correspondence); obituaries and death announcements; and Fawkes and Hawkesworth pedigrees.

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.

Includes papers on bereavement services; poverty in York; cemetery trails; graves; regulations for burial grounds 19th century; Leeds General Cemetery notes by Hugh Murray; 1941 ARP document; and offprints of articles on cemeteries by Julie Rugg and Catherine Crompton.

Newspaper cuttings regarding the cemetery and cremation reports of Cemetery Committee 1910, 1911 and 1913; as well as Hugh Murray's handwritten notes.

Friends of York Cemetery agendas and meeting papers.

Wardens Reports, as well as minutes and agendas.

Includes list of York Goldsmiths by R.C. Hope; photocopies of duty paid at York Assay Office 1805 - 1821; lists of references to York Goldsmiths and photocopies of 'York Assay Office' and 'Marks on York Plate'.

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.

Miscellaneous notes mainly regarding silver. Includes several pages of the Hargrove family pedigree and correspondence from Sessions about publication of W. Lee's 'York Silver'.

Lengthy correspondence and notes about the proposed publication of W. Lee's book on York silver. The correspondence is mainly between Sessions, Lee and W.B. Morrell. Includes attempts to raise funds in 1979 and 1980.

Hugh Murray's 'A Directory of York Goldsmiths, Silversmiths and associated Craftsmen': proofs of illustrations and prelims and a link batch of manuscript notes.

Includes photocopies of 'Charlotte Beebe Wilbour Collection of English Silver' and 'Marks on York Plate', as well as Tennants Catalogue 1997, 'Goldsmiths' Review' 1997-8, photocopies of papers on marks, manuscript checklist of 'York Silversmiths and their works' by W. Lee, C. Warner and E.M. Sessions.

Material for a book on York Silver by William Lee.

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

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.

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

Various documents including list of goldsmiths from 1272-1558; members of York Mercers' Guild 1420-1502; article on Yorkshire Water; the latter days of York Assay office - article; booklet on York Silver 1475-1858; YAYAS Times November 1996 and YPS annual Report 1965.

The papers relate to the publication of the 'Directory of York Goldsmiths.'

Notes on the wills of goldsmiths, arranged alphabetically.

Typed lists of Goldsmith Freemen arranged alphabetically. Some numbered pages, 12 - 79 but many without numbers.

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.

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.

List of Goldsmith Freemen, marked 'Old List' and folder marked 'dups'.

Includes exhibition catalogue entitled 'York Silver', Christopher Warner 1978, envelope of copies and notes on Lee's silver; notes by Sessions and lists for Lee's silver publication.

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

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

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.

Papers relating to the York Traffic Act 1753; as well as notes, plans, brochures, press cuttings, correspondence relating to many York buildings, including Naburn Banqueting House, Middlethorpe Hall, Assembly Rooms, 25 Coney Street, St Williams College and Jacobs Well.

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

Includes details relating to Tanner Row and Toft Green; Coney St, Jubbergate, Mount Villas, Nessgate; St Saviourgate, St Sampsons Square; Castlegate; New Walk and Deansgate.

Compiled by Florence Wright.

Includes photocopies of Brierley's architect drawings: Ouse Bridge, Foss Bridge, Adventurers Hall, County Hospital, Bootham Bar, St Helen's Church and Castle Yard. Also includes details relating to other areas, including Haxby, Bulmer, Hovingham, Castle Howard, Harrogate, Sheffield, Doncaster and Kirbymoorside.

The papers primarily relate to Holgate mill, as well as others in York, Skidby and Boroughbridge.

Action report for York Civic Trust on Bishophill May 1972.