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Papers relating to the operational activities of the Committee including reparations to victims of the Zeppelin Raids in York and relief for families of men in the forces. Also includes papers on the sub-committees and other funds such as the National Food Fund and establishment of other social services.

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Includes draft transfer of mortgage, file of correspondence, deed of surrender (draft) and duplicate schedule of deeds. Please see file and item level descriptions for more detailed information about the contents of this series.

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Books recording inspections of nuisance complaints affecting dwellings. Nuisances inspected include privies, air quality, keeping of animals, offensive trades, and drains. Also records inspections of premises for overcrowding, and for sanitary conditions at the home accommodation of patients with infectious diseases. A small number of volumes include plans and this is indicated in the relevant item descriptions.
Indexed by street name at the start of each volume.

Includes record certificates for races and long-distance rides.

Details of materials ordered from various different suppliers to J W Ruddock, Tailors.

Papers relating to the family history of the Gray family including Robert Gray, William Gray and Johnathan Gray. Includes legal documents, letters, notes and pedigrees which trace the history of the family including those who married into the family.

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.

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At present this series only contains one offer letter for a council house, dated 1927. Please see item-level descriptions for more detailed information.

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

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.

Includes receipted accounts, stationary, charges, promissory notes and receipts, a draft tenancy agreement, plan of a railway line, correspondence and court orders. The original order of these files has been retained, and items have been catalogued as found. Please see file level descriptions for more detailed information about the contents of this series.

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At present this collection only comprises one large-format invoice book containing folded invoices to clients, and one customer order book. Arranged chronologically.

Includes leases, declaration of trust, disentailing deed, appointments, conveyances, marriage settlement, envelope of papers relating to Elizabeth Clifton and provate of the will of Elizabeth Clifton. Please see file and item level descriptions for more detailed information about the content of this series.

This series includes 37 programmes for theatre and operatic performances by various amateur theatrical and operatic groups, at various venues around York. There is also a menu for a dinner for the Gallery First Nighters' club. The collection was probably compiled by Cuthbert Joseph Kleiser (1855-1929) who had a keen interest in the theatre.

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.

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.

Includes certificates presented to Iris Lemare as part of her work, and two first prize certificates from the Kensington Musical Competition Festival for the Notting Barns Orchestra.

Includes a marriage settlement, deed of appointment and schedule of deeds. See individual item descriptions for more detailed information.

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At present this collection only comprises one minute book.

Includes call books, call roll, court books, lists of copyhold rentals, lists of copyholds, extracts from court proceedings, one notebook of fines and an act for dividing and inclosing lands in the Manor, and in the Manor of Scagglethorpe.

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

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.

Includes newspaper cuttings relating to the Middle East and Far East.

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Includes probate documentation, sale and purchase of propert and draft conveyance, as well as some additional loose items.

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Manuscripts created by John Ward Knowles in the course of his work. The manuscripts have subsequently been bound and cover a variety of different topics.

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.

Correspondence files on specific individuals in the care of the York local authority.

These volumes include handwritten notes and newspaper cuttings compiled by J W Knowles about people and places in York, as well as additional loose handwritten notes.

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

The volumes primarily include handwritten notes by J W Knowles, and newspaper cuttings on theatrical productions, theatres, actors and actresses. The series also includes theatrical programmes for a number of theatres, including York Theatre Royal and the Grand Opera House, and theatrical magazines.

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

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

This series includes letters and postcards, the majority received by Cuthbert Joseph Kleiser. There is a letter to John Henry Kleiser, as well as empty envelopes (some with no addressee), and a postcard with no addressee. The letters cover a wide variety of subjects, but primarily relate to Cuthbert Kleiser's interest in and support of the theatre and other cultural establishments, family life, and the Kleiser business. The collection includes letters from Bob de Little in Melbourne, Australia. There are also four letters to Cuthbert Kleiser from Arthur Furnish, City Librarian.

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

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.

These volumes include handwritten notes and newspaper cuttings compiled by J W Knowles about music events and activities in the city of York and York-based musicians.

Copy letterbook containing primarily personal correspondence.

Arranged chronologically into groups of years, as per the original arrangement.

These volumes contain indexes.

1 1836-47
2 1847-57
3 1857-68
4 1868-77
5 1877-84
6 1884-87
7 1887-90
8 1890-94
9 1894-97
10 1897-1900
11 1900-02
12 1902-05
13 1905-06
14 1906-08
15 1908-10
16 1910-13
17 1913-17
18 1917-21
19 1921-25
20 1925-31

This series currently comprises family newspapers only.

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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)

Correspondence of various Gray family memebrs including William Gray Senior and Junior, Johnathan Gray and Mary Gray. Covers a wide variety of personal, financial and religious subjects.

Includes handwritten notebooks relating to various aspects of British history, politics, the economy, foreign policy and the industrial revolution, as well as other related topics.

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Includes marriage settlements, appointment, probate of the will of Reverend Thomas Hutton Croft, double probate of the will of George Arthur Hutton Croft, appointment of trustee and correspondence and documentation relating to the distribution of trust funds.

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Press cuttings concerning members of the Cundall family. Includes:
-Newspaper cutting re antique collection of John & James Cundall, undated
-Newspaper cutting re funeral of Mr H.F. Cundall, Solicitor, 1833
-Newspaper cutting re funeral of Mrs Mary A.Cundall, widow of William Cundall, at Acaster Malbis, 1933

Publications printed by author and local historian T P Cooper during the course of his working life. Please see file and item level descriptions for more detailed information about the contents of this series.

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Marriott taught modern history at Oxford University from 1884 to 1920, based at Worcester College. He was later elected Member of Parliament for the city from 1917 to 1920. These papers include newspaper cuttings and relate to his teaching career and his career as a politician.

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Publications printed by author and local historian T P Cooper during the course of his working life. Please see file and item level descriptions for more detailed information about the contents of this series.

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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).

Includes the Provision of Meals Sub-Commttee & Maintenance Grants and Meals Sub-Commttee, 1912-18 and 1922-32, and the Provision of Meals Sub-Committee 1932-34.

Also includes income tax returns.

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General outgoing correspondence of the Superintendent Registrar of the York Poor Law Union.

Most of the correspondence concerns procedural issues and irregularities in the registration of births, marriages and deaths. (See also PLU/11/1/2)

Files relating to the Bill, which was passed in the UK Parliament in 1934.

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Bank books for R. Dent and Son, Builders and Joiners with Union Banking co Ltd. from c.1902 incorporated with Barclay's Bank.

Minute books for the Committee as well as the Finance and Administration sub-committees.

Includes photographs of business premises, sports team, portraits of individual family members and group photographs. Please see item level descriptions for more detailed informatin about the contents of this series. Also includes one painting of St Martin's, Coney Street.

Comprises records relating primarily to the accommodation and care of patients with mental health issues. Also includes a small number of records concerning York City Asylum.

Includes handwritten notes on the history of Wolverhampton, and a published pamphlet on its history.

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Comprises papers relating to the erection of and provision of accommodation at the Fever Hospital at Yearsley Bridge.

Documents from the York Penitentiary Ladies Committee including meeting minutes, financial documents, reports and correspondence, and legal and operational documents.

Includes details of the House of Commons session 1936, minutes of proceedings and copies of the bill.

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These volumes contain newspaper cuttings and handwritten notes by J W Knowles about Yorkshire events and personalities, Yorkshire and Lincolnshire churches, saints and local politics. Arranged chronologically by date. There are no surviving scrapbooks for the years 1928 to 1933.

The household and professional invoices are interspersed, and arranged in annual bundles. Original order has been preserved by the archivist.

This collection has been severely damaged by rodents before transfer to the archive, leaving the invoices very fragile. They require conservation cleaning and stabilisation before they can be made available to the public.

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.

Various letters, official and personal documents relating to the Whitehead, or Whytehead, family as well as additional records relating to Thomas Bowman.

Papers concerning the establishment of the Public Assistance Committee and the transfer of responsibilities from the York Poor Law Union to York Council.

Handwritten meeting minutes of the Parish Council. Also includes one index for the period 1928-1932.

Letters to family members from Nellie Batttrick in India, including details of current events. See item-level descriptions for more information.

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Includes photocopies of items from the Department of Environmental Health collection at York City Archives.

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Newspaper cuttings relating to the career of Fred Hawksby, includings details of some of his fights.

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Reports of the Medical Officer of Health to the Urban Sanitary Committee and later the Health Committee. Reports on average were fortnightly but could be more or less regular. Incudes notifications to the Town Clerk of cases of infectious diseases.

Includes account books,

Incomplete series.

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Includes newspaper cuttings, committee reports and correspondence relating to British trade and industry.

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Inspection records of the Sanitary Inspector, Department of Health. Records inspections of insanitary conditions in houses (including inadequate sanitary facilities and drainage); inspections of common lodgings houses; food sampling and analysis; and slaughterhouse and meat inspections. Books from 1933 onwards includes reports of overcrowding. Indexed by street

Various documents collected by the Yorkshire Philosophical Society comprising civic, royal, and offical documents, including accounts and extracts from the Sherriff rolls of Yorkshire, accounts of the King's deer, certificates of appointment and commission of people in the armed forces, royal warrants and levies, letters patent, and the appointment of an official supplier by the Duchess of Kent.

Includes handbills of boxing events, and large format posters for matches. Some of the matches include Fred Hawksby on the bill. Please see file level descriptions for more detailed information about the contents of this series.

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Includes information about telephone company contracts, a dinner card, information booklets, notes on gas poisoning, papers relating to housing schemes, circulars and copies of the Journal of the Royal Army Medical Corps.

Includes copy birth certificate of John Hawskby, boxing licence of Fred Hawksby, wages envelope and ticket to an amateur boxing tournament.

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Includes typescript of an article about York Guildhall, as well as manuscripts on old windmills in York, the Unicorn in Bowes and 'topical advertising.'

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Includes typescript of an article about York Guildhall, as well as manuscripts on old windmills in York, the Unicorn in Bowes and 'topical advertising.'

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Photographs of Fred Hawksby and his family members. Also includes one photograph (now in two sections) of Sheffield boxer Gus Platts, and one negative of an unidentified football team.

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At present this series only comprises one bundle of sports programmes for events. Includes LNER Athletics Championships programmes.

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

Includes scrapbooks containing personal letters, letters to The Times and newspaper cuttings on the reign of King George.

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Includes notebooks relating to aspects of ancient and medieval history, as well as American history, charters, economic history and constitutional law.

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Published books retained by Harold Edgar Bloor during the course of his life.

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At present this collection only comprises four photographs of various teams and, in some cases, their families. Due to the very poor condition of the photographs and mounting boards, these photographs cannot be produced and will require conservation work.

Includes details of customers and items ordered and alterations required with costings. Each book belonged to a different tailor working for Ruddock's Tailors.

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