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Manuscripts catalogued during 2018, either from existing material and transfers from the Local History collection, or new accessions. See individual items for more detailed descriptions.

Manuscripts catalogued during 2019, either from existing material and transfers from the Local History collection, or new accessions. See individual items for more detailed descriptions.

Manuscripts catalogued during 2020, either from existing material and transfers from the Local History collection, or new accessions. See individual items for more detailed descriptions.

Manuscripts catalogued during 2020, either from existing material and transfers from the Local History collection, or new accessions. See individual items for more detailed descriptions.

Minute books relating to the operational activities of the York Musical Theatre Company.

Various programmes and photographs relating to performances of the Company.

Papers relating to the management of productions produced by the Company.

Meeting minute books and loose minutes for General Committee, Boating Committee, House Committee and Moorings Sub-Committee meetings.

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High levels finacial information including cash books and balance sheets for Club activities. Also includes details of membership subscriptions.

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Correspondence relating to events, memberships and moorings administered by the Club. Also includes a run of Circulars distributed to memebers regarding events and other Club news.

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Insurance documents, licences for privilege to moor and land agreements for Fulford land in relating to the Club.

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Membership lists and application forms for individual members of the Club. Also includes details of the boats owned by members and the use of moorings.

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Correspondence, circulars and notes on various events held by the Club. Also includes a VHS of an event, a visitors book and details of a Navigation course held by the Club.

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Publicity relating to the events and activities of the Club including publications, press cuttings and photographs. Also includes yearbooks detailing events and memberships, flags and logos as well as details on the history of the Club.

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Meeting minutes and correspondence of various groups to which the Yacht Club were affiliated including Royal Yachting Association Yorkshire division, Linton Lock Supporters Group and the Royal National Lifeboat Institution York branch.

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Includes minutes and reports, membership documentation, correspondence files, financial papers, York branch files, papers on the regrading of roles and the personal protection of pay, Local Charter and conditions of service, copy of Ebor Digest, papers of the Health, Safety and Welfare policy, NALGO branch rules, sports and social clubs accounts, papers regarding a staff social lub and staff training file.

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Includes meeting minutes, correspondence files, general papers of NALGO, policies and procedures, annual reports by Local Authorities, subcommittee meetings, Castle Museum papers, publications and circulars, North Yorkshire County Working Party files, Yorkshire and Humberside District files, Yorkshire Provincial Council Papers, papers relating to job regrading, strike campaign papers, York Municipal Officers Guild, newspaper cuttings, questionnaires, job descriptions, Joint Shop Steward Committee papers and papers concerning individual NALGO employees.

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Various annual reports and circulars from nationwide institutions that were similar to the York Penitentiary Society. Includes more detailed documents such as meeting minutes from the York Society for the Prevention and Discouragement of Vice and Profaneness, and the York Society for the Prevention of Youthful Depravity. It appears that these reports etc were sent in answer to a circular letter from the York Penitentiary Society requesting information in connection with a demand from the York Ladies Committee to have equal representation with the gentlemen on the Executive Committee (on which they were originally not entitled to sit).

Comprises minutes of the meetings of the Board of Guardians of the York Poor Law Union (also known as Union minutes); and from 1929 the minutes of the Public Assistance Committee.

See also Flaxton Out-Relief Union, Board of Guardians minutes PLU/1/12; and York Out-Relief Union, Board of Guardians minutes PLU/1/13

Minutes and agenda of the meetings of the Public Assistance Committee (renamed the Social Welfare Committee from 17 Jul 1947 to Aug 1948). Comprises approved and draft minutes.

The Pubic Assistance Committee met to discuss and approve a range of matters relating to the administration of the poor law.

The minutes may include references to named individuals if there was a reason for bringing an individual case to the attention of the Committee .

Note that agenda only exist for the period Feb1946-July 1948.

Approved minutes of the York Union Finance Committee. Includes two volumes of combined minutes of the York Union Finance Committee and the York Out-Relief Union Finance Committee.

Comprises approved minutes of the Collecting Committee of the York Poor Law Union and the Collecting Sub-Committee of the Public Assistance Committee.
PLU/1/4/1-8 are combined minutes of the York Union Collecting Committee and the York Out-Relief Union Collecting Committee

Comprises approved and draft minutes of the York Poor Law Union Assessment Committee.

Approved minutes of the York Poor Law Union Children's Committee and Boarding Out Comittee; and the Children's and Boarding Out Sub-Committees of the Public Assistance Committee.

Most volumes are indexed.

See also PLU/1/8 for combined minutes and PLU/6 for other records relating to child welfare.

Approved minutes of various regular and ad hoc committees of the York Poor Law Union and Public Assistance Committee.

Approved bound minutes of Hodgson's Charity.

Approved bound minutes of the Nuisance Removal Committee and the York Rural Sanitary Authority

Comprises approved minutes and draft minutes of the Flaxton Out-Relief Union's Board of Guardians.

Includes approved minutes and draft minutes of the York Out-Relief Union Boards of Guardians and Relief Committees Nos 1,2, and 3.

See PLU/1/3/4-5 for combined mintues of the York Union and York Out-Relief Union Finance Committee minutes; and PLU/1/4/1-8 for combined minutes of the York Union and York Out-Relief Union Collecting Committee.

Includes admission and discharge books for the inmates of the York Workhouse (later called the City Institution and The Grange); admission and discharge books for the casual (wandering) poor; and porters' admission and discharge books.

Comprises registers recording births and deaths within the York Workhouse

From 1869 Masters of workhouses were required to record the religious affiliation of inmates in Creed Registers so that appropriate measures could be taken in the event of illness or death.

Details recorded in each register vary over time but usually include: name; date of admission; religious creed; name of informant; and in some cases date of discharge or death. Registers from 1906 record occupation and address of relation or friend. Registers from 1908 include 'place admitted from' or 'where slept last night' in each entry.

At the outbreak of war in 1939 the infirmary of the old workhouse was equipped to become an Emergency Medical Services Hospital. The infirmary received 77 non-civilian patients in 1939, 623 in 1940 and 434 in 1941. Creed Registers from 1939-1941 therefore record admissions details of military war casualties (see refs PLU/2/3/17-19)

From 1942 emergency medical patients were treated at the new hospital which had opened next door to the infirmary.

Entries are either listed in rough alphabetical order or indexed.

Comprises punishment book, register of detention and register of restraint of inmates/patients

Includes patients' registers; records relating to lunatics; and relief for patients in sick wards. Records are primarily from the mid-twentieth century.

Comprises orders for admittance to the Institution/The Grange; orders for funerals; and disciplinary orders

Registers concerning inmates receiving indoor relief

Comprises registers of staff and registers of leave
See also PLU/11/3/5 for Workhouse staff wages receipt books.

Comprises accounts, inventories, registers of artices required by the Master; and register of visitors.

Comprises official reports from workhouse staff and statistical returns for the workhouse

Includes incoming and outgoing correspondence related to the administration of the institution.

Records details of individuals who applied for relief (welfare) through the Relieving Officer of the York Poor Law Union and, after 1930, the Public Assistance Committee.

Comprises application and report books; abstracts of application and report books; and application, report and transitional payments determination lists (Public Assistance Committee).

Relief lists record the amounts of out-relief (i.e. welfare payments in money or in kind) granted to individiuals on a weekly basis. Lists were kept by the Relieving Officers of the York Poor Law Union. Note that these lists record payments to individuals who were not in the workhouse.

Comprises weekly outdoor relief lists; abstracts of outdoor relief lists; and index of persons appearing in outdoor relief lists.

Comprises order books of relief granted by the York Poor Law Union, and, after 1930, the Public Assistance Committee. Also includes register of individual paupers relieved by the York Out-Relief Union.

Comprises receipts and registers of relief granted on loan to individuals by the York Poor Law Union, and, after 1930 the Public Assistance Committee.

Summary accounts of monies received by the relieving officer and amounts of relief charged to each parishes/ward.

Note, these records contain very few names of individuals. Individuals are only recorded where their particular case has incurred extra costs.

Comprises relief and expenditure books for the York Poor Law Union, York Out-Relief Union, Bishopthorpe Out-Relief Union, Escrick Out-Relief Union and Flaxton Out-Relief Union.

Summary accounts listing businesses and organisations that provided vouchers for goods and services, which were then granted as relief in kind to those living in poverty.

Records cover the City District only.

Note, these are financial records and do not contain names of individuals.

Comprises relief books of the District Medical Offices of the York Poor Law Union, and, after 1930, the Public Assistnce Committee; also includes prescriptions subsidised by the Public Assistance Commitee

Records orders made by the Collecting Committee to recover payments of relief (welfare payments) made to individuals. The Collecting Committee usually ordered liable relatives to contribute to the maintenance of destitute and poor relations.
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The entries record the name of the person chargeable (i.e. receiving welfare); name of liable relative; address; order and amount to be repaid.

Note: volumes PLU/4/1/5-8 were missing as at Dec 2016.

Comprises notices sent to relatives (or other persons) liable for destitute relatives. Notices to contribute towards maintenance costs were sent from the Board of Guardians and later the Public Assistance Committee.

Notices were sent to individuals who were considered liable for the maintenance of destitute and poor relatives.

Records payments made by individuals toward the cost of maintaining relatives in receipt of outdoor, indoor or asylum relief.
Includes name of relative making the payment; relationship to person receiving relief; amounts and dates of payments; in most cases also indicates type of relief being granted.

See also PLU/4/4 Collectors' Ledgers

Collector's ledgers record payments made by relatives (or organisations) towards the cost of maintaining individuals receiving out-relief, housed in a York Poor Law institution, or in an asylum.

Includes name of pauper; name and address of contributor; date of original order; and record of payments. Some entries may include further observations.

See also PLU/4/3 Maintenance payment ledgers.

Note that ledgers PLU/4/4/5-7 and PLU/4/4/16 were missing as at Nov 2016.

Contain carbon copies of receipts for payments made towards the maintenance of individuals in receipt of poor relief. Relatives were usually required to contribute towards the maintenance of poor and destitute relations, however pension funds and other organisations also appear in these receipts.

Includes date; name of person/organisation making the payment; amount of payment; name of person receiving relief or relation to person making the payment; and category of relief (e.g. outdoor, indoor or lunatic)

Comprises summary accounts of amounts of relief recovered and postage accounts.

Typed copies of Collectors' outgoing correspondence. Primarily comprises letters to individuals demanding payment for the maintenance of their relatives in receipt poor relief.

Comprises registers of non-resident and non-settled poor chargeable to the York Poor Law Union, and after 1930 the York Public Assistance Committee.

Non-resident poor refers to individuals receiving poor relief who were legally settled in York but residing elsewhere.

Non -settled poor refers to individuals receiving relief who were living in York but legally settled elsewhere.

Records of children placed in apprenticeships while under the care of the York Board of Guardians.

Comprises a register of apprentices and an apprentice indenture.

Comprises registers of children under the care of the York Board of Guardians and later the Public Assistance Committtee.

Includes registers of children who have been boarded-out with foster parents in private homes; registers of children in certified schools and other institutions; and registers of children in farm service.

See also minutes of the Children's/Boarding Out Committee ref PLU/1/6 and PLU/1/8

Records concerning maintenace of poor patients at York City Fever Hospital at Yearsley Bridge

Correspondence relating to the boarding out of children in foster homes and the Children and Young Persons Act, 1933
See also minutes of the Children's/Boarding Out Committee ref PLU/1/6

Comprises notices of deaths and one notice of admission directed to the Clerk to Visitors, Lunatic Asylums
Grove House Acomb was a private asylum.

Registers of smallpox vaccinations compiled by Vaccination Officers of the York Poor Law Union using extracts from the Registrar's Registers of Births.

Some volumes include inserted correspondence relating to individual vaccination cases.

Includes registers for the City and Rural Districts of the York Poor Law Union.

Includes letters, copy drafts of mortgages, bye-laws, and questionnaires of drainage and sewerage works carried out in Skelton and Gate Fulford by the York Rural Sanitary Authority under the Public Works Loans Act of 1875.

Comprises poor rate books for parishes within the city area of the York Poor Law Union. Also includes some lighting rate books.

Information recorded for each rateable property may include: name of occupier; name of owner; description of property (e.g. house, garden, public house); name and situation of property; rateable value of property; amount of rate; amount of rate collected.

Note that earlier rate books may not include a street address for the property.

Comprises poor rate books for wards within the city area of the York Poor Law Union.

Information recorded for each rateable property may include: name of occupier; name of owner; description of property (e.g. house, garden, public house); name and situation of property; rateable value of property; amount of rate; amount of rate collected.

NOT AVAILABLE FOR CONSULTATION UNTIL JUNE 2018

Receipt books for payments of the poor rate paid by property owners to the Parish Overseers.

Includes name of property owner amd amount paid.

Collection and deposit books were records of accounts kept by the Collector of Poor Rates. They record all sums received, deposited and paid by the Collector. Also includes one volume of Collector's monthly statements.

Note, these records do not contain details of individuals or properties.

Includes books for the following parishes: St Maurice; St Giles; and St Cuthbert, St Helen on the Walls and All Saints, Peasholme

Notices to overseers of the poor from the York Poor Law Union Assessment Committee regarding amendments to the appoved valuation list.

The notices record amendments to the valuation of individual properties for the purpose of collecting the poor rate. The amendments were made following objections to the original valuation list.

Includes name of property owner or occupier; brief address; and amended rateable value.

Correspondence concerning the rating of government property within the York Poor Law Union area.

Comprises incoming and outgoing correspondence of the York Poor Law Union and Public Assistance Commitee.

Summary statistics compiled by the York Poor Law Union (the including Out-Relief Unions)and Public Assistance Committee for reporting to central government officials.

Comprises weekly and annual returns and monthly statistics.

Includes staff appointment files, Guardians declaration book, superannuation records (including certificates of service), register of excepted employees, wages and salaries receipt books, and correspondence.

Printed orders from the Poor Law Board and later the Local Government Board to the York Poor Law Union.

Comprises York Poor Law Union year books; notices of meetings; newspaper cuttings books; and publications used in the administration of the poor law.

Summary financial statements recording total receipts and expenditure.
Comprises statements for the York Poor Law Union, York Out-Relief Union, and Escrick Out-Relief Union.

Comprises general ledgers for the York Poor Law Union; York Out-Relief Union; Bishopthorpe Out-Relief Union and Flaxton Out-Relief Union .

Summary accounts of receipts and expenditure for individual parishes within the York Poor Law Unon.

Includes parochial ledgers for the York Rural Sanitary Authority, the York Out-Relief Union and the Escrick Out-Relief Union.

Comprises treasurer's financial ledgers for the York Poor Law Union and York Out-Relief Union.

Comprises receipt and payment books for the York Poor Law Union, and, after 1930, the Public Assistance Committee; the York Out-Relief Union; the Flaxton and Bishopthorpe Out-Relief Unions; and the Escrick Out-Relief Union.

Comprises invoices for goods and services received by the Treasurer of the York Poor Law Union.

Includes headed invoices for many local York businesses.
Also contains records of invoices paid by the Union via Barclays Bank.

Invoices are filed by the date that the account was paid.

Petty cash books for the York Poor Law Union, and, after 1930, the Public Assistance Committee.

Legal cases concerning investigations, claims and prosecutions instigated by or involving the York Poor Law Union. Includes cases concerning poor law union staff and paupers.

Comprises summonses and warrants relating to criminal charges brought by the York Poor Law Union against individuals through the Police Courts; also includes inquests; and affiliation orders.

Some files include evidence statements and correspondence frrom individuals involved in the cases.

Includes correspondence, draft and copy conveyances, inventory, valuation, and other papers

Includes specifications, resolutions of the Regiser Office Boardroom Committee; plans and tenders.

Comprises copy agreement and demise.

Order and directions for sale; conditions of sale; correspondence; and conveyances.

Comprises declaration and copy conveyance.

Comprises minutes, agreement, specifications, tenders and invoices

Comprises plan; papers relating to sale of land in Clifton; papers relating to finance of building; correspondence and other papers.

Comprises notices from the Board of Guardians; memorandum; abstract of title; and division of proceeds of sale.

Hotel offered for sale following a case in Chancery [Wilkinson versus Wilkinson]. The Guardians purchased the hotel for the purpose of erecting new poor law offices.

Comprises correspondence; papers relating to sale and purchase; and historic title deeds s for Etridge's Royal Hotel.

Contracts wth various tradesmen for building work at New Board Room offices

Includes clerks fees; evidence regarding occupation of houses; receipts for expenses, correspondence, conditions of sale; and draft conveyances.

Comprises contracts for tradesmen; certificates of amounts due from tradesmen; bills of costs from tradesmen; account of bills; cash paid and total costs of buildings.

Comprises abstract of tenders, agreement and bill of costs.

Includes agreements; draft conveyances;and bill for sale.

Contracsts with tradesmen for building work