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Archivistische beschrijving
Y/PPT/2/1/2 · Deelreeks · 1936-1938
Part of York Civic Archive

Details recorded include: number in rate book; address; name and address of owner or agent; name of responsible tenant; names of other tenants or sub-tenants; number of persons normally sleeping in rooms; size and use of rooms; and number of persons allowed per room. Note that the information recorded varies from sheet to sheet.

Y/PPT/2/1/1 · Deelreeks · c1936-1938
Part of York Civic Archive

Details recorded include: name and address of owner or agent; number of families in the house; name of responsible tenant; names of other tenants or sub-tenants; number of persons normally sleeping in rooms; size and use of rooms; and number of persons allowed per room. Note that the information recorded varies from sheet to sheet.

Y/PPT/2/1/12 · Deelreeks · 1933-1938
Part of York Civic Archive

Inspection records typically record the following details: address of property; names of occupiers/owners; occupation of occupier; total number of occupations; rent; size and condition of each room in the house.

Y/ORD/4/6/4 · Deelreeks · May 1939-November 1939
Part of York Civic Archive

Correspondence relating to staffing, equipment, first aid materials, purchases, wardens' posts, the installation of relay systems, building of public shelters, disposal of unexploded bombs, gas masks and supply depots.

Y/PPT/2/1/15/20/3 · Deelreeks · c1890s-1930s
Part of York Civic Archive

Includes correspondence; a detailed statement of the Hope Street Area Improvement Scheme, including occupations of tenants; plan of the clearance area; printed resolutions of York Council committees, 1924; copy of the Hope Street Improvement Order, 1925; lists of properties and occupiers/owners; blank forms; newspapers with printed public notices of schemes; two copies of the Medical Officer of Health's 'Report on the Sanitary Conditions of Hungate, 1908'; objections; notes from interviews with Ministry of Health officials; procedures to follow to enact an order; draft copies of wording for the Hope Street Improvement Scheme; printed lists of Freemen for Micklegate Ward (1890s); rough notes on unhealthy houses; estimates of costs; summaries of housing in the area; and rough notes; and death and disease rates in the area.

Y/PPT/2/1/14 · Deelreeks · 1910s-1930s
Part of York Civic Archive

Comprises records of house inspections under the Housing Acts 1909 to 1925. Information recorded includes: address; name of owner and occupier; and date of inspection. May also include condition of property, sketch of property; and details of action taken. Includes records for the following streets: Aldwark; Alexandra Yard, Walmgate; Alne Terrace; Apollo Street; Bowman's Yard; Bay Horse Yard; Bishopgate Street; Bishophill; Back Butlers Buildings; Beckett's Yard; Beedham's Court; Blossom Street; Bootham Square; Bootham Row; Britton's Yard; Brunswick Row; Brunswick Terrace; Brunswick Place; Cemetery Road; Clark's Yard; Constitution Place; Clementhorpe; Carleton's Court; The Cottages, Heworth; Dale Street; Dennis Street; Dixon's Yard; Dundas Street; Ebor Court; Fetter Lane (Scrivens Court).

Salaries registers
Y/ADM/5/14 · Deelreeks · 1939-1940
Part of York Civic Archive

Includes salaries for ARP, Castle Museum, Blind Persons Act, Mansion House, Housing and Estates, new municipal officers, Town Clerks, City Treasurers, City Engineers, Registrar of Births, Marriages and Deaths, PA (Superannuation), Clerk of the Peace, probation officers, Health Department staff, Fever Hospital staff, health visitors, midwives, maternity hospital staff, Tuberculosis dispensary, Fairfield Sanitorium, Vaccination officer, library department, mental deficiency staff, parks department, public baths staff, Dringhouses burial ground, Foss Islands and sewage scheme, Fire Brigade pension, Policy, agencies (road fund), weights and measures, Markets Department, Electricity Department, Housing architect, mental hospital and pensions, Ouse Navigation, police pensions and quarterly salaries.

Civil Defence publications
Y/ORD/4/6/1 · Deelreeks · 1939-1942
Part of York Civic Archive

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.

Aire and Calder Navigation
Y/ENV/1/1/56 · Deelreeks · 1900-1942
Part of York Civic Archive

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.

Shelters
Y/ORD/4/6/5 · Deelreeks · 1939-1943
Part of York Civic Archive

Includes correspondence and associated papers regarding the recruitment of volunteer wardens, air raid wardens and public air raid shelters.

Training exercises
Y/ORD/4/6/16 · Deelreeks · 1939-1944
Part of York Civic Archive

Includes electrical and radio notes for wireless operators, training reports, correspondence regarding enemy weaponry, premises papers and details of exercise 'Leap'.

Y/ORD/4/6/7 · Deelreeks · 1940-1944
Part of York Civic Archive

Includes correspondence files regarding access to water for fire fighting equipment, the repair of equipment including hydrants and mains valves, one fire watcher's log and attendance book, agreements regarding the British Sugar Corporation and parade ord

Halifax Bomber crash in York
Y/ORD/4/6/13 · Deelreeks · 1945
Part of York Civic Archive

Includes correspondence files regarding the crash, as well as newspaper clippings and official casualty lists. The bomber crasher in Nunthorpe Grove.

Staff registers
Y/ORD/4/6/15 · Deelreeks · 1940-1945
Part of York Civic Archive

Staff registers including salary details and length of time served with the York Corporation. The volumes primarily cover the Town Clerk's Office.

Civil Defence Wardens
Y/ORD/4/6/2 · Deelreeks · 1938-December 1945
Part of York Civic Archive

Includes pictures of the Head Wardens for York, Chief Warden's correspondence, Chief Warden's circulars and information about the numbers of paid and unpaid wardens.

Billeting of workers
Y/ORD/4/6/10 · Deelreeks · 1941-1945
Part of York Civic Archive

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.

Salvaged materials
Y/ORD/4/6/14 · Deelreeks · 1944-1945
Part of York Civic Archive

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

Casualties
Y/ORD/4/6/17 · Deelreeks · 1939-1948
Part of York Civic Archive

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

Smoke abatement literature
Y/ENV/4/7/1 · Deelreeks · 1904-1948
Part of York Civic Archive

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.

Y/HEA/6/2/3 · Deelreeks · 1914-1948
Part of York Civic Archive

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. Includes correspondence regarding specific patients and cases. The earlier files from 1914 to the early 1920s are in rough chronological order only.

Women's Voluntary Services
Y/ORD/4/6/8 · Deelreeks · 1938-1949
Part of York Civic Archive

Includes the ten year report, the knitting report and one correspondence file regarding the work of the service.

Y/COU/4/1/2 · Deelreeks · 1950
Part of York Civic Archive

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.

Y/HEA/4/18/2 · Deelreeks · 1942; 1946-1951
Part of York Civic Archive

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.

Y/HEA/4/18/4 · Deelreeks · 1942-1951
Part of York Civic Archive

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.

Books of counterfoils
Y/ENV/1/1/11 · Deelreeks · 3 March 1935-23 January 1953
Part of York Civic Archive

The volumes include details of payment of dues and towage charges, as well as names of vessels, masters and firms; and the nature and weight of the cargo.

Y/HEA/4/18/1 · Deelreeks · 1942-1949; 1954
Part of York Civic Archive

The record cards provide the personal details of each patient, possible source of infection, and living conditions. Cards from 1950 and 1954 include an attached report, which records possible ways the disease may have been transmitted, such as schools attended, and persons and places visited. Note that these cards are samples only of total cases.

Street renumbering
Y/PPT/2/3/1 · Deelreeks · 1898-c1955
Part of York Civic Archive

Comprises records of the system of house numbering and renumbering for York's streets.

Civil Defence Observations
Y/ORD/4/7/74 · Deelreeks · 1952-1956
Part of York Civic Archive

Includes a book about the weather and ways to measure it, and correspondence between the Royal Observer Corps and the Home Guard.

Nuclear tests
Y/ORD/4/7/73 · Deelreeks · 1956-1957
Part of York Civic Archive

Reports on the Nevada test detonation in May 1955, and the tests in the Pacific Ocean in the 1950s.

Y/HEA/4/18/3 · Deelreeks · 1942-1957 [gaps]
Part of York Civic Archive

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.

Y/ORD/4/6/12 · Deelreeks · 1939-1958
Part of York Civic Archive

Includes files relating to various air raids on the city of York, including the 1942 Baedeker Raid, and the administration of the aftermath of those raids. Also includes files relating to repairs to buildings and reglazing.

Palatine flood gauge sheets
Y/ENV/1/9/1 · Deelreeks · 1935-1959
Part of York Civic Archive

Complete series of sheets for the period. There are a number of sheets per year, and include a pen-drawn line showing the water levels. Scale half inch to one foot. Sheets for 1939 are missing.

PLEASE REQUEST THIS ITEM ONE WEEK IN ADVANCE - HELD IN OFFSITE STORAGE

Y/COU/4/1/3 · Deelreeks · 1951-1959
Part of York Civic Archive

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.

Desk Diaries
Y/ENV/1/1/32 · Deelreeks · 1944-1959
Part of York Civic Archive

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

British Association
Y/ORD/4/7/9 · Deelreeks · 1958-1959
Part of York Civic Archive

Includes correspondence relating to excursions by the British Association, as well as an annual meeting programme for 1959.