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Includes recruitment campaign papers, information relating to canvassing for new recruits and associated correspondence.

Includes paperwork relating to the Technical Reconnaisance Officers, and and up to date list of staff.

Includes correspondence relating to an accident involving a local resident, negotiations for use of a building for the York Civil Defence Services club, general correspondence with the Town Clerk and a letter of complaint regarding the air raid shelter on

Contains correspondence and paperwork regarding staff training courses on a variety of subjects.

Includes files on evacuations, information and rest centres, air raid warnings, care and development, and associated correspondence.

Includes correspondence; conveyances; plans; arbitration papers; valuations and other legal papers relating to the improvement of Gillygate.

Comprises records relating to Hope Street, Albert Street, Richard Street, George Street, and Long Close Lane.
Includes house inspection records; particulars of occupiers (including occupation, income, and rent); lists of tenants and possible tenants for Tang Hall Estate; Detailed Statement of Hope Street Area Improvement Scheme (1924); three house inspection notebooks; agenda and minutes from the Health (Unhealthy Areas Subcommittee) Committee; correspondence, lists of owners and statistical information.

Includes correspondence outlining the financial situation of the Civil Defence of York in 1939, a handbook outlining procedures in the event of an air raid, and appendix to the handbook.

Includes papers relating to potential gas attacks, bomb threats, air raid precautions for animals, emergency feeding and rest centres and posters produced by the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents.

Includes details of the government scheme for the billeting of war workers, as well as a handbook on billeting and welfare for use by Chief Billeting Officers.

Includes a list of materials transferred from the Pumping Station to the Housing Depot, and correspondence regarding salvaged materials.

Includes correspondence regarding the Personal Injuries (Civilians) Scheme, protocols for civilian deaths, lists of air raid casualties and mortuary protocols.

Includes paperwork relating to Prime Cost Contracts.

Includes manuals relating to nuclear weapons, line communication, field cable construction, Army health and rescues.

Includes files relating to planning in the event of a nuclear attack, essential service routes, awards, radiological defence instruments and fallout and contamination.

Arthur Cooke was a Civil Defence Officer in York in the 1950s and 1960s. These files form his personal collection of correspondence created in the course of this duties.

Includes papers relating to the management of the Fire Service in York.

Includes papers relating to annual inspections and reviews of the Civil Defence Corps.

Comprises plans of proposed new streets and roads, street widenings, changes in street layout, street resurfacing, changes to street furniture, and slum clearances.

Comprises plans relating to public transport (including trams)
improvements to river navigation (including canals and locks)
and bridge plans (including structural drawings).

Includes name; birth year; gender; date of admission; from whom received; some volumes also include district admitted from. Note that not all fields are necessarily completed.

Includes name; address; and details of sick leave and holiday leave.

Registers of accounts relating to the administration of the City Institution/The Grange (formerly the workhouse)

Admission and discharge books kept by the Master of City Institution/The Grange (previously York Workhouse).
The terms 'vagrants', 'casuals' or 'the casual poor' were used in reference to individuals who were homeless, destitute and wandered (tramped) from place to place.

Entries include name; age; gender; occupation; place of sleeping the previous night; date of admission and date of discharge; next destination; in some cases the task performed to earn relief is recorded.

High level financial information for Redfearns National Glass Works, York, including balance sheets and wage information.

Glass product design specifications, sketches and drawings some with covering notes realting to different clients and designs created by the company.

Lists of property and machinery held by Redfearns including some valuation of property worth in 1981.

Includes relief lists of the York Poor Law Union, and, after 1930, the Public Assistance Committee.

Information recorded varied over time. Name of pauper and amount of relief received each week are always recorded; age and residence of pauper were also included at various periods. A statistical portion recording the classification of paupers appears in books from Sep 1848. Non-settled poor and Common Charges (irremovable poor and vagrants) are recorded in the back of books where relevant. Children boarded-out are also recorded for a short time in the early twentieth century. In some instances entries may indicate if an individual was sent to an institution (for example, the workhouse or the asylum).

From 1837 to 1848 records were divided into quarterly periods (March, June, September and December); from 1849 to 1948 they were divided into half-yearly periods. Please note that not all records survive.

Between 1898 and Mar 1904 the York City District was divided into City District 1 and City District 2; between 1905 and 1935 the City District was organised into East, West and North Districts; and from 1936 to 1948 it was organised into East, West, North and Central districts.

Records receipt of payments by relatives or organisations towards the cost of maintaining people in receipt of out-relief, in a York Poor Law institution or in an asylum.

Includes name of person/organisation; from whom payment received; purpose of payment; amount; and record of payments transferred to the Treasurer of the York Union.

The book was part of the Alexander Sheridan series.

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The book was part of the Australians series. Written under Willian Stuart Long.

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Papers presented to the Manorial Court in Clifton, and dealt with by the court jurors. The records are organised into annual bundles.

Two interview recordings. The interviews 'took place in Mr Mason’s own home on November 6th 2017' (transcript).

The interview transcript (HBE/1/11) provides the following background information about James Mason: 'James Mason was born in March 1926 in South Yorkshire. He was called up in 1944 and joined the Royal Welsh Fusiliers. He then made his way through Holland and Belgium to Germany (Dusseldorf in particular) and took part in the victory parade in Paris. Prior to being called up, he worked as a coal miner and was a member of the Home Guard' (transcript).

The interviews include discussion about the British Legion, being demobilised, not talking about the war at home, medals, meeting a girl who lived on a barge on the river Rhine, and his box of memorabilia.

Signed minutes of the committee. In November 2014 the name of the committee changes to Haxby & Wigginton Cemetery Committee.

Includes notebooks containing observations, receipts, names and addresses and an account of his life in Africa with the British Army.

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Files for individuals who received their freedom by patrimony or by apprenticeship only.

Files for individuals who received their freedom by patrimony or by apprenticeship only.

Files for individuals who received their freedom by patrimony or by apprenticeship only.

Files for individuals who received their freedom by patrimony or by apprenticeship only.

Files for individuals who received their freedom by patrimony or by apprenticeship only.

Files for individuals who received their freedom by patrimony or by apprenticeship only.

Files for individuals who received their freedom by patrimony or by apprenticeship only.

Files for individuals who received their freedom by patrimony or by apprenticeship only.

Files for individuals who received their freedom by patrimony or by apprenticeship only.

Files for individuals who received their freedom by patrimony or by apprenticeship only.

Files for individuals who received their freedom by patrimony or by apprenticeship only.

Files for individuals who received their freedom by patrimony or by apprenticeship only.

Files for individuals who received their freedom by patrimony or by apprenticeship only.

Includes statements, posters, polling information, statuory declarations, general expenses, postal vote paperwork, ballot paperwork, consent of nominations, Presiding Officer details and papers regarding absent voters.

Includes the registration of vehicles, election expenses and papers, posters, rail posters, floor plans, papers regarding the counting of votes, papers regarding staff and postal vote paperwork.

Includes polling information, cheques, envelopes and forms, posters, ballots papers, postal votes, details of absent voters, election expenses, rejected voting applications, and Proxy Votes.

Includes expenses paperwork for candidates, Labour nominations and Conservative expenses, as well as information on clerks and messengers.

Instructions to presiding officers and poll clerks

Letter to the Municipal electors of Bootham Ward from Ralph Davison and Robert Marchant

File containing correspondence created in August 1971 during Alderman Richard Scruton's term of office as Lord Mayor of York

File containing correspondence created in December 1971 during Alderman Richard Scruton's term of office as Lord Mayor of York

File containing correspondence created in January 1972 during Alderman Richard Scruton's term of office as Lord Mayor of York

File containing correspondence created in February 1972 during Alderman Richard Scruton's term of office as Lord Mayor of York

File containing correspondence created in April and May 1972 during Alderman Richard Scruton's term of office as Lord Mayor of York

File contains weekly engagement sheets for the entirety of Alderman Richard Scruton's term of office as Lord Mayor of York

Contains information on owners, rivers the boats used, cargo, size and subsequent owners.

Includes reports to the Markets, Ouse and Foss Watch Committee, Ouse and Foss Committee reports and River Manager report books.

Correspondence regarding patients and services

Includes returns of births and deaths

Information recorded includes personal details of each patient, possible source of infection, and living conditions. Note that these cards are samples only of total cases.

Information recorded includes personal details of each patient, possible source of infection, and living conditions. Note that these cards are samples only of total cases.

Information recorded includes personal details of each patient, milk supply, and living conditions. From April 1954 the format changes to environmental conditions forms. Note that these cards are samples only of total cases.

Includes correspondence relating to the proposal and purchase of Acomb Hall, staffing and training, and general administrative matters.

A series of numbered pieces of correspondence and bundles of correspondence organised by subject. Includes correspondence, circulars, minutes and other associated papers related to the housing and care of those with learning disabilities following the introduction of the Mental Deficiency Act of 1913. Contains information on patients/cases. There is an index to this correspondence filed in the front of Y/HEA/6/2/4/1 . Note, there are gaps in this series.

Correspondence, minutes and reports relating to the management of Brandesburton Hall for the Mentally Defective in East Yorkshire. Contains some references to patients/cases.

Correspondence files regarding precautions for dealing with a radioactive event and regarding the register of radioactive substances. Includes incoming and outgoing correspondence and printed literature.

Comprises correspondence, individual reports of accidents at work and statistical information on accidents in the workplace.

Annual desk diaries used by a member of staff working at Naburn Lock.

Includes various published sets of bye-laws and rules concerning lights, signals and ways to avoid collisions, as well as towing regulations and tide tables.

Papers for an enquiry by the Inspector of Nuisances regarding the erection of a public slaughterhouse in York. Includes correspondence with, and replies from other towns; a Report on the Sanitary Conditions of Slaughterhouses in York; and a Royal Commission Report on the danger to man of tuberculosis from animal food.

Booklets regarding consumer protection services for traders

Includes publications, printed conference proceedings and reports relating to smoke abatement, chiefly those printed by the Smoke Abatement League and its successor organisation, the Smoke Abatement Society. Includes the Journal of the Smoke Abatement Society [1930-1934]; Smokeless Air, The Smoke Abatement Journal [1943-1948]; as well as other publications. Includes a small number of covering letters.

Comprises sheets recording numbers of animal slaughtered and certificates for unsound meat surrendered to the inspector.

Bundles of correspondence with J P Guy, arranged chronologically within the bundles.

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Includes roll for 1839, and books for 1846-1851, 1852-1857, 1858-1863, 1864-1869, 1870-1873 and 1884-1893.

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Books arranged chronologically and containing minutes of committee meetings. From 2000 these were produced as loose-leaf minutes.

Currently includes one copy of the North West Annual Handbook of the Professional Engineering Institutions, and a copy of 'An Engineers Ramble through Cumbria' by Roy Mason.