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Various booklets on subjects such as fundraising, how to run a branch and service guides.

Includes notification of meeting and Income Tax notice, both from the Ministry of Labour and National Service.

Unidentified photographs of individuals, presumably related to the British Legion.

Includes letters, pay books, Army service papers, forms and discharge papers for various individuals associated with the York British Legion.

Records including administration letters and a warning/black list.

Correspondence, applications and orders for individuals applying for and recieving financial aid such as employment support and pensions.

At present this series only comprises a series of glass plates.

Various paper stationery items including headed letter paper, postcards and labels.

Records relating to the management of the York branch including meeting minutes, deeds, financial records, registration and subscriptions.

These guides were produced by a number of different parties but retained by Rural Action Yorkshire in the course of their work.

At present this collection only comprises one bundle of minutes.

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PDF copies of pages from the York Group of the Ramblers website, as at September 2016. The PDF copies include a page hierarchy, not available on the main website but created to show how the individual pages fitted together. This is a static copy of the website rather than a live edition.

Currently includes correspondence regarding publicity and editions of the York Group newsletter.

Includes papers on local campaigns fought by the York Group of The Ramblers, as well as correspondence regarding activities they were involved in or undertook themselves, such as Family Rambling days, the National Council Meeting in York and the Selby-York cycle path.

Includes descriptions of rambling walks by Colin Coombes, Cliff Blott and Patsy Pendegrass.

Includes papers relating to footpath problems, and minutes of the Footpath sub-committee.

Annual reports of the East Yorkshire & Derwent Area, including the annual reports of the York Group.

Comprises the minutes and accompanying papers for the annual general meetings of the York Group.

Typed official minutes of the Group from its foundation in 1968 onwards.

At present this series only includes details of the original constitution, dated 1978, and amendments to 1988.

The files include correspondence, terms and conditions for the prize and copies of essays submitted.

The files include correspondence, handwritten meeting notes and papers produced by the society.

The files include lists of officers and accounts as well as minutes of meetings of the society and other associated societies.

Includes newspaper cuttings and general correspondence relating to the activities of the group. Arranged chronologically.

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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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Includes committee minutes, correspondence and press cuttings regarding St Anthony's Hall.

Reports, correspondence, press cuttings and administrative notes concerning the Borthwick Institute.

Includes minutes, reports and accounts concerning the trust and its foundation.

Includes programmes, reports and accounts and other associated papers (including press cuttings) for the York Summer School of Archives and Historical Research.

Also includes some typescript material and newspaper cuttings

Letters, press cuttings, and programs concerning the York festival

Includes minutes, reports and accounts of the committee, on which Canon Purvis was a member, as well as a small amount of associated correspondence.

Includes reports created by Canon Purvis in his role as Diocesan Archivist, papers regarding the establishment of the York Diocesan Registry, correspondence relating to the employment of an Assistant Archivist and press cuttings.

At present this collection only includes an incomplete set of magazines. 2004-2006 are missing, as well as some editions within other years.

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Includes notices regarding the closure of the society and papers regarding the sorting of accounts.

Agendas, minutes and associated papers for meetings of the Poppleton Men's Society. Includes names and addresses of members.

Includes account books, treasurers reports, receipts and bank books for the society.

Series of three volumes and two bundles of minutes relating to the management of the hall. The minutes are arranged chronologically.

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

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.

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

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

Includes name of property owner amd amount paid.

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.

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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.

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.

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.

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

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 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 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 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.

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)

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.

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

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.

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

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

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 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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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).

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

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

Registers concerning inmates receiving indoor relief

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

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

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

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 registers recording births and deaths within the York Workhouse

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

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

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 minutes, agreement, specifications, tenders and invoices

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

Comprises declaration and copy conveyance.

Includes draft and final tenancy agreements, correspondence and other papers.

Comprises tenders; committee decisions and estimate of costs

Tenders from bedstead suppliers

Comprises copy agreement and demise.

Tenders from pharmacy suppliers

Tenders, specifications and bills of quantities from companies for installation of the Hot Water system.

Comprises papers regarding loans for buildign work; lists of tenders received; agreements with tradesmen; and statement of costs.

Comprises sale of land; correspondence; copy of Workshouse Committee's resolutions

Comprises correspondence and copy details of sale of property

Contracsts with tradesmen for building work

Includes agreements; draft conveyances;and bill for sale.

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

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

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

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.

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

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