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Job file
BLK/1/39/1 · Item · 1934-1935
Part of Brierley, Leckenby, Keighley and Groom

Includes correspondence, tender documents and specifications for work carried out to build new vestries at the church.

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Merchant Adventurers.
BLO/10/24 · Item · 19 October 1945
Part of Harold Edgar Bloor papers

Notes for an address at the Michaelmas Court. Includes a review of the post war situation, history of the Merchant Adventurers and changing value of money over the years.

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Curved Asbestos Huts'
BLO/10/25 · Item · 1946
Part of Harold Edgar Bloor papers

Handwritten review of the man hours allowed by the Ministry of Labour for their erection.

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The Miners'
BLO/10/27 · Item · 20th century
Part of Harold Edgar Bloor papers

Article bemoaning the way in which the Socialist Government was being held to ransom by the Trade Unions.

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N. F. U. Shipton'
BLO/10/28 · Item · 9 December 1948
Part of Harold Edgar Bloor papers

Address given to the National Farmers Union.

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Road Safety'
BLO/10/38 · Item · 20th century
Part of Harold Edgar Bloor papers

Article (possibly unfinished) giving road safety advice to cyclists and motorists.

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BLO/11/3 · Item · 1939
Part of Harold Edgar Bloor papers

Trade Directory advertising products relating to the gas industry. At the end of the Directory is a diary section in which H. E. Bloor has made entries from 23/9/1939 to the end of the year recording his day to day activities and observations on the war.

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The war period
BLO/4/10 · Item · July 1919
Part of Harold Edgar Bloor papers

H. E. Bloor’s report to the Directors of the York Gas Company covering the five financial years 1914 to 1918 inclusive including a comparative analysis of the accounts.

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Wages and production
BLO/4/12 · Item · c.1920
Part of Harold Edgar Bloor papers

Letter to a newspaper apparently written after World War I. A hand written note added at the end by H. E. Bloor 19/10/1952 says it was not sent.

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Analysis of accounts
BLO/4/13 · Item · c.1921
Part of Harold Edgar Bloor papers

Comparative analysis of the accounts of the York Gas Company for the years 1914 to 1918 inclusive.

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BLO/4/14 · Item · 8 January 1919
Part of Harold Edgar Bloor papers

H. E. Bloor’s letter to the National Gas Council presented to a Board Meeting of the York Gas Company regarding the post war reconstruction and development of the York Gas Works.

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BLO/4/4 · Item · 12 January 1915
Part of Harold Edgar Bloor papers

H. E. Bloor’s report to the Directors of the York Gas Company regarding the installation of stoking machinery in the Retort House at York.

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BLO/4/5 · Item · October 1914
Part of Harold Edgar Bloor papers

Extract from Mr. Bloor’s Report of October 1914 on 'THE WAR'. How fluctuations in the price of gold during the war could affect the Sliding Scale (a formula which established a relationship between the maximum dividend payable to shareholders.

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Report on 1914 working
BLO/4/6 · Item · c.1915
Part of Harold Edgar Bloor papers

H. E. Bloor’s report to the Directors of the York Gas Company including an analysis of the accounts.

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Report on 1915 working
BLO/4/7 · Item · c.1916
Part of Harold Edgar Bloor papers

H. E. Bloor’s report to the Directors of the York Gas Company including an analysis of the accounts and comments on the Sliding Scale and how it affected the York Gas Company.

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BLO/4/8 · Item · October 1916
Part of Harold Edgar Bloor papers

H. E. Bloor’s report to the Directors of the York Gas Company on the carbonising plant and stoking machinery at the old works.

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School of Commerce
BLO/5/10 · Item · 7 December 1934
Part of Harold Edgar Bloor papers

Notes for address to pupils of the School of Commerce'.

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BLO/5/11 · Item · 11 October 1934
Part of Harold Edgar Bloor papers

Report to the Chairman and Directors of the York Gas Company by H. E. Bloor. Includes a history of the Council’s policy regarding power supplies to Council Housing from 1920 and after 1928 when the Council decided to build 'all electric' houses.

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Gas charges
BLO/5/12 · Item · 25 September 1935
Part of Harold Edgar Bloor papers

Review of the systems of heating and cooking, as well as explanation of a Four Part Tariff for gas involving: the customer charge, distribution demand charge, manufacturing demand charge and commodity charge.

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Housing
BLO/5/2 · Item · 4 December 1933
Part of Harold Edgar Bloor papers

Report favouring the use of gas in housing instead of electricity.

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BLO/5/3 · Item · 2 January 1933
Part of Harold Edgar Bloor papers

Reprint from the Yorkshire Herald 4/1/1933 in which H. E. Bloor’s letter to the York City Council is reproduced. The Council were considering converting some of the gas street lights to electricity and the letter lists all the advantages of gas.

BLO/5/4 · Item · 4 December 1933
Part of Harold Edgar Bloor papers

Extensive report on the future of the gas industry and how to deal with the competition from electricity.

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Output of gas
BLO/5/5 · Item · 10 May 1933
Part of Harold Edgar Bloor papers

H. E. Bloor’s report to the Directors of the York Gas Company on the output of gas and how demand may be increased. Includes a letter to the City Engineer, F. W. Spurr, arguing for the supply of gas to council houses, list of quantities gas sold.

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Gas street lighting
BLO/5/8 · Item · 12 February 1934
Part of Harold Edgar Bloor papers

Letter to Acomb Council in response to their proposal to convert street lighting to electricity listing the reasons why gas lighting is preferable.

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BLO/6/20 · Item · 20th century
Part of Harold Edgar Bloor papers

Arguments in favour of changing from a flat rate system of charging (simple charge per unit of gas consumed) to a two-part tariff (service charge plus charge for gas consumed) or a block rate tariff (price per unit of gas reduces as more gas is consumed).

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Report by H. E. Bloor
BLO/6/25 · Item · 20th century
Part of Harold Edgar Bloor papers

The report explains the Corporation’s policy for the supply of energy to Council houses and their building of 'All electric' houses. He proposed to write to the Finance Committee to request a meeting to put the case for gas to be supplied to the houses.

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BOC/2/1 · Item · 1953
Part of Bootham Bowling Club

The photograph shows Councillor Albert Allison ('Bert') Keech, President of Bootham Bowling Club, congratulating James Henry Murray on winning the Yorkshire Bowles Singles Championship for 1953.