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Includes photocopies of articles; handwritten notes and summary documents.

Decade by decade statistics and analysis, and plan showing cemetery in 1909.

Includes meeting papers 2008-2010; FOYC News; leaflet on the herb garden; and City of York Council leaflet on 'Funding for Voluntary and Community Organisations 2002/4'.

Correspondence with F. Emerson, monumental mason.

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.

Sections U and V.

Includes correspondence with people erecting memorials etc.

Notes on maps for York, Beverley, Scarborough, as well as lists of subscribers to the maps.

21 Copies of The York Citizen, including articles on the introduction of the Yorkcard, opening of the Barbican Leisure centre and Duchess of Kent received Freedom of the City of York.

Incomplete series.

The supplement was a special edition of the York Evening Press.

Photocopies of OS maps and street plans of York.

History of Yorkshire Evening Press.

Preview of the York Festival and Freemen's service.

Extension of the Coney Street site of the Yorkshire Evening Press.

Special Edition also featuring four facsimiles of 1945 editions.

Commemoration of 238 Years in York.

Includes hospitals and medicine: Bootham, County, Retreat, Hospitals. St Mary's Convent; Nunthorpe Hall; Clifford St; St John's College in WW1; St Leonard's Hospital (photocopy); Purey Cust; Naburn closure; St Leonard's Hospice; Military Hospital; Poppleton Gate; District Hospital; Yearsley Bridge; Fairfield; Nine hospital closures; County Hospital; Medevac helicopter; District Hospital plans 1961; York Medical School; York Dispensary; Clifton Hospital and York Medical Society anniversary.

Includes press cuttings relating to the electrification of railways, transport to London, National Railway Museum and Leeds trams and trolleys.

General newspaper cuttings on 'York Past and Present'.

Includes cuttings on York from the air; the birth of Jorvik and the 60th anniversary of the Baedeker Raid.

Includes cuttings relating to the York Mystery Plays and Festival.

Includes press cuttings on the restoration of York Minster.

Newspaper cuttings relating to Royal visits and commemorations.

Newspaper cuttings relating to people and characters, from local and national newspapers. Includes many obituary notices, cuttings with York or Yorkshire connections, and others of significance to Hugh's interests (e.g. Heraldry, or Colditz). Includes a mixture of recent people (e.g. Eric Gee) and historical (George Hudson).

Churches, Chapels (York and non-York), Salvation Army, convents, monasteries, abbeys and synagogues - mostly cuttings plus a few leaflets, almost entirely relating to York.

Alwark - mostly Esher report and redevelopment.

Bedern - Esher report and redevelopment and restoration of Bedern Hall.

Bishophill District - archeaological dig at Buckingham House and general redevelopment initiatives.

Bishopthorpe Road - layout of shops and development issues.

Historical buildings in Bootham - notes by Hugh Murray and correspondence regarding specific sites.

Bridge Street - redevelopment of shops, closure of Boyes and erosion issues.

Chapter House Street - copies dated 1993 in Treasurers House to Hugh Murray from Lewis, and cuttings of Treasurers House.

Clifford Street - development of Technical College and history of Water Lane.

Coney Street - buildings and shop adverts, archaeological digs and finds, notes of Hugh Murray and papers relating to the Baedeker Raid.

Coppergate - phase 2, showing controversies over plans for future development.

Duncombe Place - renovation of the Red House.

Earlsborough Terrace - sale of the Abbey Guest House.

Groves - general history of area.

Hungate - archaeological dig and development.

James Street - housing development.

Jubbergate - White Rose restaurant issues.

Leeman Road - tree demolition.

York and District (e.g. Elvington and Castle Howard) stained glass and medieval art - artists, designers and glass itself, including York Minster and parish churches.

The cuttings all relate to Roman Catholic heraldry, Papal heraldry and York Minster heraldry.

Includes Petergate, Piccadilly, Pump Court, Queens Staithe, Queen Street, Regent Street, Rougier Street and St Andrewgate.

Includes Trinity Lane, Walmgate, Wellington Row, Whipmawhopmagate and other streets.

Includes Micklegate Stray, Monkgate and the Mount.

Includes an advert for Brasso.
Black and white print, in 3 different sizes.
Provenance: None
Duplicates: Yes
Type of item: Modern copy, see Hugh Murray 'The Horse Tramways of York', 1980, pp 2 &54; 15.5x11, 9x14 and 18x13 cms

Photographs are of the same scene, but include a close-up view showing the horse tram in more detail, and a wider view showing the street scene. Two of the photographs are captioned 'Daylight' on the back.

Black and white photograph of a map drawn by Dr. William White showing the street as it was in January 1782. Original map can be found in WHI/1.

Marked A13. Hand-drawn by William White.
Format: Black and white print, 12.5x9 cms
Provenance: William White Memorandom Book, York City Archives/Miss Wright

Black and white photograph of a map drawn by Dr. William White showing the street as it was in January 1782. Original map can be found in WHI/1.

Marked A16. Hand-drawn by William White.
Format: Black and white print, 12.5x9 cms
Provenance: William White Memorandom Book, York City Archives/Miss Wright

Black and white photograph of a map drawn by Dr. William White showing the street as it was in January 1782. Original map can be found in WHI/1.

Marked A17. Hand-drawn by William White.
Format: Black and white print, 12.5x9 cms
Provenance: William White Memorandom Book, York City Archives/Miss Wright

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.

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 registers of the Bedern, York 1682-1868, transcribed by Rev N B Pace.

Includes a draft document on Bedern by Julian Richards with note attached, as well as catalogue of deeds and indentures and maps and plans of the street with notes.

Includes Bedern rents and title deeds: manuscript notes (tied up with picture cord), as well as original file with notes in manuscript.

Bedern scale measurements, including measure from 1852 map 1:1056 (5ft: 1 miles). Also includes drawings and photocopied maps (1852 map).

Includes details from street directories (York) 1851, 1872, 1876, 1893, 1949-50 (sections only) as well as manuscript notes and photocopies.

Papers relating to the bank in Coney St. Swann Clough & Co, Coney St, existed till 1879 and was taken over by Beckett's. The site was bought in 1746 and a house built on it. It was later sold in 1771 to Samuel Compton of Derby and used as bank known successively (1771-1802) as Crompton's, Garforth's and Raper's, or (accounts differ) Willoughby, Raper & Co., including Clough & Swann as partners.

Typed manuscript document titled 'Heslington Hall and its owners during the past four centuries'. Numbered paged 1-52. Includes handwritten corrections and one inserted page of notes by John Bowes Morrell.

A series of six handwritten notes or copied sources on Heslington Hall including undated sale document; notes on the Eynns family; York Civic Trust Plans for the a 'Folk Park' in the grounds of Heslington Hall; and press cuttings from the York Evening Press dated 14 July 1981 about the RAF in Heslington.

A collection of copied documents and notes on the Old Nunthorpe estate off the Bishopthorpe Road, including details of the 1902 sale, with maps, and Hugh Murray's notes on residents taken from street directories. The residents mentioned include George Lawton, William Lawton, Sir Wilfred Forbes Home Thompson, Bart., T.F. Wood and J.W. Proctor.

Two typed letters from Chessingham Estates (The White House, Bishopthorpe), signed Michael Hammill BSc ARICS, to S. Heppell Esq., 29 Broadway West, Fulford Road, enquiring about houses on the corner of Lawrence Street and Foss Island Road and the Ideal Laundry Site on Trinity Lane.

Photocopied articles, house plans and extracts from street directories for Elm Bank House on the Mount. Also includes press cuttings.

File of newspaper articles relating to prominent York buildings.

Booklets on York business histories, as well as York tradesmen's billheads and histories; miscellaneous papers on the history of York and press cuttings relating to York businesses.

Handwritten notes on York streets, listed alphabetically from Abbey Court to Ayre's Yard, as well as a brief bibliography of background reading.

Handwritten notes.

Research notes on the Hungate slum clearance.

Research notes and newspaper cuttings on Skeldergate.

This series includes photographic prints collected by Hugh Murray, a local historian in York. The collection was listed by volunteers from York Civic Trust between 2015 and 2017.

The original order of this material has been maintained, and the prints have been item-level listed as they were stored. Please see item level descriptions for more detailed information on the contents of this collection.

This series includes photographic prints collected by Hugh Murray, a local historian in York. The collection was listed by volunteers from York Civic Trust between 2015 and 2017.

The original order of this material has been maintained, and the prints have been item-level listed as they were stored. Please see item level descriptions for more detailed information on the contents of this collection.

This series includes photographic prints collected by Hugh Murray, a local historian in York. The collection was listed by volunteers from York Civic Trust between 2015 and 2017.

The original order of this material has been maintained, and the prints have been item-level listed as they were stored. Please see item level descriptions for more detailed information on the contents of this collection.

This series includes photographic prints collected by Hugh Murray, a local historian in York. The collection was listed by volunteers from York Civic Trust between 2015 and 2017.

The original order of this material has been maintained, and the prints have been item-level listed as they were stored. Please see item level descriptions for more detailed information on the contents of this collection.

This series includes photographic prints collected by Hugh Murray, a local historian in York. The collection was listed by volunteers from York Civic Trust between 2015 and 2017.

The original order of this material has been maintained, and the prints have been item-level listed as they were stored. Please see item level descriptions for more detailed information on the contents of this collection.

This series includes 35mm slides collected by Hugh Murray, a local historian in York. The collection was listed by volunteers from York Civic Trust between 2015 and 2017.

The original order of this material has been maintained, and the slides have been item-level listed as they were stored. Please see file level descriptions for more detailed information of the contents of the collection.

This series includes 35mm slides collected by Hugh Murray, a local historian in York. The collection was listed by volunteers from York Civic Trust between 2015 and 2017.

The original order of this material has been maintained, and the slides have been item-level listed as they were stored. Please see file level descriptions for more detailed information of the contents of the collection.

This series includes 35mm slides collected by Hugh Murray, a local historian in York. The collection was listed by volunteers from York Civic Trust between 2015 and 2017.

The original order of this material has been maintained, and the slides have been item-level listed as they were stored. Please see file level descriptions for more detailed information of the contents of the collection.

This series includes 35mm slides collected by Hugh Murray, a local historian in York. The collection was listed by volunteers from York Civic Trust between 2015 and 2017.

The original order of this material has been maintained, and the slides have been item-level listed as they were stored. Please see file level descriptions for more detailed information of the contents of the collection.

This series includes 35mm slides collected by Hugh Murray, a local historian in York. The collection was listed by volunteers from York Civic Trust between 2015 and 2017.

The original order of this material has been maintained, and the slides have been item-level listed as they were stored. Please see file level descriptions for more detailed information of the contents of the collection.