Correspondence 1943-1944 Ministry of Health circular No.2778: Housing of Working Classes, Post-war Programme - Report on Post-War Housing, Mar 1943, and Land Purchases Apr 1943 - York Housing: First Year's Housing Programme: 500 houses and flats proposed on land already held by Local Authority, Cemetery Road, Acomb Hall Estate and Gale Lane - Demolition Sites: Hallfield Road, Lord Mayor's Walk, Layerthorpe, Regent Street, Willow Street and Long Cross Lane, 15 May 1943 - Sites to be acquired: Muncaster Estate Stockton Lane - Undeveloped Building Sites . Muncaster Estate, Elmfield Lane, Hempland Lane, Bad Bargain Lane, Heslington Lane, Birkbeck Estate, Westfield Estate, Maple Grove, Kingsway West, New Lane, Windmill Estate, Carr Lane, Acomb Hall Estate, 15 May 1943 - Northern Housing
Council, Jarrow: First Year's Housing Programme, Nov 43 - Resolutions passed at Conference of West Riding Local Authorities, Wakefield, 29 Sep 1943 Ministry of Health circular 28/44: Post-War Housing, Purchase of Land with Statement by Minister of Health in House, 8 Mar 1944 - Correspondence with Jackson, Valuers, Leeds regarding Purchase of Dringthorpe Estate, Mar 1944-Jun 1944 - Correspondence with York, Harrogate & District Group of Gas Companies, Coney Street, concerning possibility of 'Model Kitchen' to be erected in Guildhall, Mar 1944 - Letter concerning offer of land and bungalow in Stockton Lane, 1943 - City of York: Post-War Municipal Housing Report to City Council by Housing Committee, 1942 - Notes on Interview with Ministry of Health, 1943 - Association of Municipal Corporations: War-Time Housing, Extract from House of Commons Debate, 1943 with Statement by Minister of Health on Government proposals; also Note on Association's Deputation to Ministry of Health, 2 Feb 1944
Subscription for membership of the National Housing & Town Planning Council, 1946/47 - Dustbins - Possession of properties , 1947 - Compensation following accident in Rougier Street - Gas & Electricity Services in Corporation Housing Charity Commission: query concerning Friends' 'Retreat' - Access to premises in Kitchener Street - Report on Building Licences - National Federation for Housing and Town Planning : Programme for Conference, Paris, June 1947 - Housing Committee: Municipal Houses, Increase in Rents, and details for Tang Hall, Burton Lane, Water Lane Estates and various houses and flats - Housing & Planning News Bulletin, June/July 1947- Query regarding Wilberforce Avenue - Visit of Deputation from Borough of Luton Housing committee to York - Northern Housing Council circular letter and Agenda for AGM - Treasurer's Report 1946/47 - List of number of applicants on waiting list - Housing Progress Reports, 18 May to 15 Dec 1947 - Tenancy of 12 Garths End, Fulford - Caretaker's House, Mill Mount School, - Maintenance of Typewriters -Survey of prefabricated houses - Request for accommodation in York - Plan of proposed water supply to Clifton Lawn Tennis Club - Request regarding 'Clifton Field' - List of applicants for flats, Aug 1947 -The Housing Centre Haymarket, 10th Report, 1946/47, and Housing Centre Bulletin No.114, Jun 1947 - Comparative Housing Activity Report, June - August 1947 - Housing in Military Occupation: 41 and 43 Water End; 1 Melbourne Street and 1 Melbourne Villas, Sep 1947 - Application for grant for Examination Award, Sept/Oct 1947 - Programme of National Housing and Town Planning Council's Conference, Harrogate, Nov 28 - Dec 1947 - Report on Flats Survey, 20 Oct 1947 - Appointment of permanent housing Welfare Officer for York, 20 Oct 1947 - Middlethorpe Lodge, Dringhouses, taken on a seven year lease by the War Department- Query with regard to sale of 68 Hanover Street -County Borough of Hastings Housing Department Questionnaire - Classification of housing applicants - Request for accommodation.
Housing Committee 'Finish Houses Campaign' - Housing Progress Report - Housing & Planning News Bulletin Dec 1946 /Jan 1947 - Demolition of Bainbridges' Buildings, Price Street, 1939-40, (and plan, 1946) - Reports on Building Licences - City Treasurer's Monthly Report to Housing Committee - Simon Report: Thermal Insulation of Dwellings, 1946 - Association of Municipal Corporations circular: Housing Contracts, Increase in National Health Insurance & Pension contributions, 3 Dec 1946 - Housing and Planning News Bulletin, Feb/March 1947 - Details of Houses subject to Demolition Orders, Closing Orders and Undertakings not to re-let for human habitation, 1947 - Housing (Financial) Sub-Committee meeting, Recommendations - Claim by for compensation - City of York 'Point Scheme' in allocation of housing, (undated) - Application for shop premises in York, Jan 1947 - Ministry of Health premises - Request for possible acquisition of land situated in Nunthorpe Road (with plan), St Clément's Parochial Church Council, Feb 1947 - Direct Labour: Memo for Local Authorities, 1947 - Request and complaint regarding accommodation - City Treasurer: procedure in the collection of rent arrears - Draft minutes of Housing (Rents & Tenants) Sub-Committee - Request for possession of property (Acomb) following rebuilding after War Damage, Feb 1947 - Application for accommodation in York, and press cutting, Feb 1947
County Borough of Walsall, Housing Department salaries - Inadequately housed persons - Yorkshire Regional Joint Committee Building Industry : Hours of Labour,- Housing & Estates Department circular letter concerning repairs and maintenance of properties - Multi-Storey Flats, Women's Advisory Committee on Solid Fuel circular letter : 'Aims & Objectives' Apr 1946 - Reports on Building Licences - Details of Annual Conference of Institute of Housing, 1946 - Report of Sir John Wrigley's visit to York, Jun 1946 - Requisitioned Houses re-let - Housing and Planning, News Bulletin No.42, Aug/Sept 1946 - Application by a Trade Union for a special rate of pay for tree-lopping, Aug 1946 - Query regarding advances under small dwellings acquisition Acts - Housing & Estates Department circular letter concerning Report on 'points' scheme - Housing & Planning News Bulletin, Oct/Nov 1946 - Housing Progress Report, Sept 1946 -Charges for gas cookers in new houses -City of York: questionnaire concerning Housing Officer - Yorkshire Regional joint Council for the Building Industry : Gradings of Districts and Current Rate of Wages
Association of Municipal Corporations : Notes on Association's meeting with Minister of Health- Press cutting from 'The Times', regarding Building Prices - National Council of Social Services, Bedford Square, WC1: List of Regional Officers (undated) - Rent Rebate Scheme and Revision of Income and Rent Rebate - Ministry of Health: War Damage with regard to Nos.12 & 13 Garths End, Fulford, and circular 163/4 : Release of Staff - Purchase of land adjoining Cattle Market Inn, Paragon Street, Sep 1945 - WVS Donation of blankets for needy - Report of Housing Committee delegates to Association of Municipal Corporations' Conference, London, Oct 1945 - Yorkshire Federation of Building Trades Employers Day Work List and Labour Charge as from 1 Oct 1945 - Fuel for Furnished Rooms, Dec 1945 - York Cooperation Society Ltd's application for land on Water Lane for a new branch, 20 Dec 1945
Files of general housing correspondence
Various papers and correspondence including: Ministry of Health circular 66/45 -Proposed permanent housing on Carr Lane estate - Notices to Quit to allotment holders - Land at Carr Lane, Acomb, and Water Lane, Clifton, proposed 100 permanent Houses - Valuation of market produce and tenant rights Meeting of Allotment Holders, Carr Lane, Sep 1945 – Ministry of Health circular 6/45: Permanent Houses - Sites and numbers of proposed houses ready for tender on Navigation Road; Gale Lane Estate; Carr Lane; Woodlea Avenue; Beckfield Lane; Kingsway North; Water Lane Estate; (May 1945) - Ministry of Health circular 183/45: Cost of premises requisitioned or taken for housing purposes; 184/4: Permanent Prefabricated Houses - Plans (May 1945) – Statutory rules and orders 1945, Nos.1361 and 1451-2: Emergency Powers (Defence) General Regulations, Orders in Council amending the Defence General Regulations 1939 - Ministry of Health circulars 192/45 Restrictions on Conversion of Housing to non-Residential purposes; 200/45 Permanent Housing Programme; 201/45: Emergency Housing Accommodation (with enclosure referring to oil cooking stoves) - Housing Land/School Sites in Beckfield Lane, Jan 1946 - Report of visit to site of prefabricated permanent houses, Howard Type, at Woolwich, Jan 1946 - Press cutting (undated) concerning increase in housing subsidies
Changes in stock of dwellings other than those reported on Monthly Progress Reports, Apr 1961-Dec 1973 - Ministry of Housing & Local Government memo concerning completion of Form P14 - Monthly Progress Reports, May 1961-Feb 1974
Ministry of Health's Housing Census as at 31 Dec 1945 - Progress Reports (Building Schemes etc.) Jan 1946 - Nov 1950
Correspondence concerning the building of eight houses - Proposed purchase of land in Nevinson Grove; draft specification and bill of quantities (includes plan).
Correspondence with Ministry of Town & Country Planning / Ministry of Health, concerning appropriation of land for Old Peoples' Dwellings and reading /recreation Room (includes plans)
Correspondence regarding land required for proposed housing (includes a plan).
Claims for compensation and allotment agreements.
Correspondence with building contractors for 98 houses
Correspondence with engineering contractors
Correspondence with York Waterworks Co - Leakages/Repairs to mains at 287 Burton Stone Road [1940] - Water mains at rear of municipal housing adjacent to privately owned properties,1944 - List of Corporation Housing supplied from private water mains (undated) New housing estates, 1953
Correspondence and papers regarding proposed site for 262 houses and 23 old peoples' dwellings
Correspondence with engineering contractors
Correspondence, contracts and reports
Concerning erection of four houses. Correspondence (general) – Tender – Ministry of Health circular letter concerning Amendments to Buildings, Sep 1946 Basic Rates for labour and materials as used in Quantities - Reduction in estimate proposed by Tender – Allotments at junction of Bad Bargain Lane/Tang Hall Lane, required for building.
Newland & Spooner Permanent Prefabricated Houses, correspondence with Ministry of Health.
North Eastern Railway (NER) Circular 224 Correspondence May 1944 - Aug 1945 - Memorandum of Procedure (enclosure to NER circulars 224 and 225) - Specification No.l Concrete roads using manual methods of compacting concrete; Specification No.2 Concrete roads using mechanical methods of compacting concrete (May 1944) - Bills of Quantity for roads and sewers (May 1944) - Programme and Progress Charts (undated) - Regional Circular NER 233 ; Advance Preparation of Housing Sites, May 1944 - 'Works in Connection with the Preparation of Housing Sites'; General Conditions of Contract' (Hansard, April 1944) - Notice to Tenders, and Form of Tender (Apr 1944) NE. circular 247, Sept 1944 - Specimen Form of Deed of Agreement (HS1) - Home Office circular letter concerning employment of German Prisoners of War [POWs] on works of civil engineering, Aug 1945 - North Eastern locations of POW Camps, Jul 1945 - Application and General Conditions of Employment of German POWs, MOW/POW/CE2, July/Aug 1945 Plans for Carr Lane Site, Acomb, and map of Sites for Schools in York, 1944, and Plans for housing in York, 1945
Correspondence concerning offer of land in Stockton Lane and bungalow (32.158 acres)
Correspondence concerning purchase of tenements in Ebor Buildings and Hawarden Place
Includes invitations to openings; Institute of Housing booklet 'Training to be a Housing Manager'; and conference papers.
Correspondence concerning building of N E R Cottage Houses and Benefit Fund Cottages, with estimates for Askham Grove, Tang Hall Lane, Woodlea Avenue and Granger Avenue
Correspondence and extract from Minutes of Housing Committee concerning erection of 9 Timber Bungalows in Apollo Street, Dec 1951Feb 1952
Comprises correspondence on general housing matters including: number of applicants; housing of old people; rents; electricity supply; clearance and redevelopment; complaints and relocations; opening of estates, circulars; tenancies and other issues.
Correspondence concerning improvements to Colton's Almhouses
Correspondence and extracts of minutes of Housing Committee concerning: acquisition and development of land in Carr Lane and construction of roads and sewers; assessment and development charges on land at North Lane, Dringhouses; proposed erection of 10 houses and purchase of sites for housing purposes and development charges
Correspondence and extracts from minutes of Housing Committee concerning erection of 6 flats Chaloner's Road by F Shepherd & Son Ltd, June 1957 - July 1958 and of 36 flats Chaloner's Road/4 houses Chapman’s Farm by Sorrell(York) Ltd, Jan 1955 - March 1958
Correspondence and extracts from minutes of Housing Committee concerning construction of roadworks at junction of Kingsway West/Gale Lane, Feb - Aug 1957; erection of 9 dwellings Kingsway West and Gale Lane, 2 dwellings Cornlands Road and 6 dwellings Tennent Road by F Shepherd & Son Ltd, May 1955 - July 1958
Correspondence concerning erection of a detached house in Askham Lane,
Correspondence concerning land adjoining Tang Hall Beck being used as dumping ground, includes plan.
Ministry of Health circular No.2875 and Schedule for Plasterers' Work, Sep 1945 - Correspondence concerning Prosecutions for false claims Jan 1943-Oct 1943; Fraudulent claims in War Damage accounts, Jun 1943-Sep 1944; Alleged fraud in War Damage contracts, Aug 1943-Dec 1943; , Overcharging in contract for War Damage, Nov 1943-May 1945; forgery case Mar-Jun 1944; Incorrect claims for employees Apr 1943- Sep 1943; Incorrect claim in wages for War Damage repairs, Jan 1944-2May 1945 - Ministry of Health circular 151/46: War Damage Repairs, Request to Local Authorities to assist in expeditious considerations of claims in certain cases, Jul 1946
Correspondence and extracts from minutes of Housing Committee concerning erection of a house and shop in Crichton Avenue
Correspondence and extracts of minutes of Housing Committee concerning erection of 42 dwellings North Lane/Thanet Road.
Correspondence concerning ownership and possible purchase of land in Burton Stone Lane
Correspondence concerning erection of 5 blocks of Old People's Dwellings, Askham Lane Estate
Letter from Housing & Estates Manager - minutes of Housing Committee - Erection of flats & Future Policy - Minutes of Housing (Rents and Tenants) Sub-Committee and confidential survey of areas.
Correspondence and extracts from minutes of Housing Committee concerning acquisition of land, Bull Lane Allotments and construction of roads and sewers
Correspondence and extracts from minutes of Housing Committee concerning erection of 4 houses and 1 residential shop Turnmire Road
Extracts from minutes of Housing Committee concerning construction of roadworks in Don Avenue extension - Technical Report and erection of 38 houses Don Avenue extension, also dispute over contract regarding cost of demolition of Dringhouses Sewage Works.
Correspondence and extracts of minutes of Housing Committee concerning erection of old people's bungalows Beck Lane, Heworth
Concerning the planting of trees on Moor Lane and Askham Lane Estates; and estimate of costs
Correspondence concerning purchase of land, with plan
Correspondence with Ministry of Health - Licences to build - Ministry of Health circular 61/44 : Factory Made Houses - Experimental Housing by Local Authorities - Notes on meeting of Alderman and City Engineer at Ministry of Health, Whitehall, 1944 - Northern Housing Council, Gateshead , circular letter concerning Demonstration Houses.
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. .
The files detail petty cash given to and from residents, arranged by date. Only includes resident names.
The files detail petty cash given to and from residents, arranged by date.
The files are arranged by resident surname.
The files are arranged alphabetically by resident surname.
Includes details of medication and prescriptions given to individual patients in the home.
Includes details of medication for residents amd issues experienced by the home. Arranged chronologically.
The files are arranged alphabetically by resident surname.
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 records relating to the provision of housing and accommodation in York.
Includes the papers of the Oakhaven Elderly People's Home and the papers of the Housing Committee.
Further historical and modern records will be added as they are catalogued.
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.
Includes:
E83: Book containing receipts and payments in respect of cremitt monies, 1651-1660;
E84: Register book of persons entitled to 'cremitt' money and other charities; also extracts from wills, together with the names of persons in St Catherine's and St Thomas's Hospitals etc, 1719-1836.
Deed of arrangement between Alexander Cleyland and Henry Worthington in relation to obtaining an office or place in connection with the hospital.
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 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.
Made before appropriation to the Cathedral Church of York
Register made by Sir William Pinder, hospital clerk, Master of the Hospital of St Thomas the Apostle without Micklegate Bar. The register includes:
Ordinances of the hospital, 1552,
Minutes of the meetings held by the Maister and Bretheren, 1552-1583,
Accounts for the year 1575,
Survey of the lands etc belonging to the hospital at Stamforth Bridge and associated memoranda (1558) and
'Copie of the Docquett certified by Mr Atturney Generall under the King's Bill signed,' relating to the acquisition by the Corporation of some of the messuages in the City of York, part of the estate of the hospital.
Account rolls of St Thomas' Hospital for years 1575, 1580, 1591, 1597, 1604, 1607.
This is a selection of the civic archive containing the records which are currently available for access only. Further historical and modern records will be added to this section as they are catalogued.
Town Clerk's correspondence files. Includes incoming and outgoing correspondence relating to the Yorkshire Casual Poor Assistance Authority.
Town Clerk's correspondence files. Includes incoming and outgoing correspondence relating to the Yorkshire Casual Poor Assistance Authority.
Printed sections of the Poor Law Act, 1930 relating to the Yorkshire Casual Poor Assistance Authority
Printed sections of the Poor Law Act, 1930 relating to the Yorkshire Casual Poor Assistance Authority
Copies of printed minutes of the meetings of the Yorkshire Casual Poor Assistance Authority
Copies of printed minutes of the meetings of the Yorkshire Casual Poor Assistance Authority
Printed annual Reports including statement of accounts and statistics
Printed annual Reports including statement of accounts and statistics
Papers of the Town Clerk. Comprises correspondence files, printed annual reports and minutes of the Yorkshire Casual Poor Assistance Committee, and printed Acts.
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.
One volume:
1: 1664-1665
The assessments give the names of the persons assessed and the amount payable, and also the names of the Poor Folks and the amount paid to them. 6 volumes:
1: 1632-1644 (also includes the Ainsty for 1633)
2: 1644-1652
3: 1653-1660
4: 1661-1668
- 1669-1678
- 1715-1810 [Entries for years 1746-1810 lists names of overseers of the poor only]
The accounts are in respect of the Poor Folks in three Hospitals in the City - St Thomas's, St Anthony's and another.
Also includes:
Accounts of the sums received and paid on account of the Poor Folks, 1683-1692;
Entries of carriages required for the Kings Service on certain occasions between 1686 and 1691 (irregularly entered).
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).
Comprises records relating to welfare and support services in York.
General correspondence and associated papers regarding the transfer of staff and property to York Council from the York Poor Law Union under the Local Government Act, 1929.
Papers and correspondence regarding the scheme under the Local Government Act, 1929
Papers concerning staffing structure and conditions within the new Public Assistance Committee. Includes lists of staff.
Correspondence and papers regarding the new administrative scheme under the Local Government Act, 1929.
Correspondence and associated papers regarding the operation of joint committees under the Local Government Act 1929
Papers and correspondence regarding the transfer of staff, property and institutions from the York Poor Law Union to York Council.
Papers concerning the establishment of the Public Assistance Committee and the transfer of responsibilities from the York Poor Law Union to York Council.