Showing 975 results

Preview of the York Festival and Freemen's service.

Extension of the Coney Street site of the Yorkshire Evening Press.

Format: Black and white print, 14 x 9
Provenance: Rowntrees

Includes Driffield Memorial Company accounts December 1952-December 1955, including sheets of accounts of York Cemetery Company and Memorandum of Association June 1952-December 1955. Also includes correspondence and printed accounts.

The image appears to be a former main line double track that has become disused except for colliery traffic. There is a (colliery) shunting diesel engine shed on the right and a lorry in the right middle distance.
Format: Black and white print, 15 x 10
Provenance:

Incomplete series.

Finkle Street - closure of Jersey Creamery.

Pictorial Souvenir of the Queen's visit (28 June 1971).

Yorkshire Evening Press historical summary of York AD71-1971.

In four parts.

Relates to the Knavesmire Tattoo 13-18 September 1971.

Yorkshire Evening Press review linked to York's 1900th Anniversary.

Action report for York Civic Trust on Bishophill May 1972.

Celebration of 500 Years of York Minster.

Programme summary (15 June-8 July).

Two press cuttings.

Includes photocopies of articles; handwritten notes and summary documents.

Includes cuttings relating to the York Mystery Plays and Festival.

Foss Bank development issues.

History of Royal Visits to York.

James Street - housing development.

Papers relating to the liquidation of the cemetery company. Includes copies of correspondence, research notes and newspaper cuttings.

Correspondence regarding an indemnity agreement and cemetery liquidation.

Scrapbooks relating to York buildings and weather, and places of interest.

Hanover Street - housing development.

Clarence Street cuttings, including Mrs Shaw planting a memorial tree.

Little Stonegate development issues.

Series of original and copy letters by Hugh Murray to the Deramore family and others, including the architect Francis Johnson and including geneaological details.

Dissertation on the development and decline of the adult school 1908-1981 by June M. Boaden.

Includes cuttings on the LUI Banquet (response to criticism from Manchester); Coney Street, archive of York bridges and an article on horse trams by Hugh Murray.

History of the Yorkshire Evening Press, 1882-1982.

Leeman Road - tree demolition.

Haxby Road - removal of Rowntrees Cocoa sign.

Heslington - Tillmire Common dispute.

History of the Yorkshire Evening Press, 1882-1982.

Carr Lane (picture of the lane).

Pictures of Radio York in Bootham Row.

Book entitled 'The King's Manor' reprinted from Royal Commission on Historial Monuments 'City of York' vol IV. Also includes a letter from John West-Taylor dated 22 January 1985 from the University of York to York Civic Trust entitled 'An appeal to restore the fabric of the King's Manor'.

Grosvenor Terrace - details of an unexploded bomb.

Earlsborough Terrace - sale of the Abbey Guest House.

The building was later the Grand Opera House.
Format: Black and white print, 16 x 11
Provenance:

Close-up of arches and décor inside.
Format: Black and white print, 16 x 11
Provenance:

Research notes into the history of the cemetery. Includes copies of correspondence and newspaper cuttings.

Two typed letters from Chessingham Estates (The White House, Bishopthorpe), signed Michael Hammill BSc ARICS, to S. Heppell Esq., 29 Broadway West, Fulford Road, enquiring about houses on the corner of Lawrence Street and Foss Island Road and the Ideal Laundry Site on Trinity Lane.

Includes press cuttings on the restoration of York Minster.

Guide to the colour printing of Yorkshire Evening Press (112 pages).

History of Yorkshire Evening Press.

Opening of the New Yorkshire Evening Press building by Princess Alexandra.

Opening of the New Yorkshire Evening Press building by Princess Alexandra.

Roman York, cuttings regarding York's 1900th anniversary, and various excavations around York featuring discoveries made.

Decade by decade statistics and analysis, and plan showing cemetery in 1909.

21 Copies of The York Citizen, including articles on the introduction of the Yorkcard, opening of the Barbican Leisure centre and Duchess of Kent received Freedom of the City of York.

Copy of a dissertation entitled 'The contemporary role of York Cemetery' by Robert M Tuke.

City of York Council planning application for the restoration of the Chapel, 1990 and Ronald G. Sims architect's drawing of the restoration of the cemetery gatehouse.

Includes policy documents; education finding correspondence; press cuttings about public interest in cemeteries; Memorial Mason registration; Rymers press cuttings and notes on internment.

Published magazines about York, including editions of City Life.

Rowntree & Co souvenir.

Includes press cuttings relating to the electrification of railways, transport to London, National Railway Museum and Leeds trams and trolleys.

Handwritten and typed letters to and from Val Portas.

Correspondence regarding Hugh Murray's book 'This garden of death'. Also includes despatch notes, publishers quotes and associated details.

The records relate to the closure and reopening the pub, which was also known as the Ackhorne during its history.

Supplement of photographs.

Papers regarding placing a register on a computer database.

Working papers, documents, letters and pedigrees for: Nickson; Noble; Noton and Noyes; Oates; Oloman; Oldfield and Oliver.

Wardens Reports, as well as minutes and agendas.

Lawrence Street - founding of the Leprosy Hospital, referenced by Hugh Murray.

Two bundles of general correspondence.

Dalton Terrace - funeral of Emily Houden, and letters from Hugh Murray to York Evening Press regarding naming Dalton Terrace.

Special Edition also featuring four facsimiles of 1945 editions.

Includes restoration history magazine cutting; York Cemetery Trust business plan 1994-1996; and guided walks list (undated); as well as maps for walks.

General newspaper cuttings on 'York Past and Present'.

Wardens Reports, as well as minutes and agendas.

Compiled by the City of York and District Family History Society and Hugh Murray. Sections NW, AA, BB, CC and DD.

Incomplete series.

Includes York Cemetery Trust annual reports 1989-1998; meeting papers and cultural programme leaflets.

Compiled by David Poole. Sections KK, LL and MM.

Supplement for Local Newspaper Week.

Two press cuttings.

Compiled by David Poole. Section NN.

Compiled by David Poole. Section OO.

This series includes photographic prints collected by Hugh Murray, a local historian in York. The collection was listed by volunteers from York Civic Trust between 2015 and 2017.

The original order of this material has been maintained, and the prints have been item-level listed as they were stored. Please see item level descriptions for more detailed information on the contents of this collection.

Chronology and statistics regarding the cemetery and national burials.

Photocopies of graphs regarding cemetery staffing; and handwritten notes and costs of burials from 1856-1962 (incomplete series).

Alphabetical list of people with memorial stones in York Cemetery, with notes by Hugh Murray. Also includes a list of Boer War deaths and additional notes.

Miscellaneous correspondence and photographs relating to York Cemetery.