Comprises statistical information on the health of school children in York and reports on health services provided.
Includes annual reports and special reports of the Medical Officer of Health in bound volumes. The volumes also include annual reports of various other officers assisting the Medical Officer of Health, including: the Chief Sanitary Inspector; the Inspector of Nuisances, the Public Analyst, the Canal Boats Inspector; the School Medical Officers; and from 1930 the Chief Medical Officer (Public Assistance).
Comprises papers relating to the accommodation and maintenance of adults and children with learning disabilities ('mental deficiency').
Bound volumes of specifications for contracts to tender, arranged chronologically, and covering all forms of civic maintenance.
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Includes Ordnance Survey maps of York and neighbouring areas, some with locations of schools marked on. Also includes 'Geographia' maps with schools marked on and OS maps showing different wards in and around York.
1945 - 1953
1 1953 - 1957
2 1957 - 1962
3 1962 - 1966
4 1966 - 1968
Includes the minutes for 1946-53 and 1956-68 only.
Includes organisational materials for the festival, as well as promotion items (tickets, invitations to events, event programmes etc). Also includes some publicity material.
The returns relate to Messrs T F Wood & Co. Very often the specific cargo is not detailed. Also include details of accounts and goods received.
This extensive collection includes volumes detailing the registration of canals using the lock, as well as other traffic passing through and the monies owed. Also includes wages books for staff operating the lock, correspondence files to and from the lock keeper, and extensives notes on river levels and soundings. .
At present this series only comprises papers regarding the Honorary Freedom bestowed on T C Benfield.
Includes organisational materials for the festival, as well as promotion items (tickets, invitations to events, event programmes etc). Also includes some publicity material and copies of play books for the Mystery Plays.
Report on a central area traffic scheme
It is likely that the items in this series were collected by the York Festival team as examples of good practice.
All four volumes are indexed.
The volumes contain indexes
1 1948-52
2 1952-57
3 1957-62
4 1962-65
5 1965-70
Copies of printed committee resolutions and proceedings, and minutes and reports of York Council. These copies were compile by the Chief Public Health Inspector and include annotations next to items that relate to public health.
Includes minutes; plaint books; court books and papers; declarations, pleadings and other documents; recognizances; calendars of prisoners; and judgement papers
Sem títuloRenamed Civil Defence Committee from 1950. These volumes contain indexes.
1 1943-59
2 1960-72
Printed copies of user and consumer safety advice from government departments for recommended safe use of chemicals in Great Britain.
Reports, studies and development opportunities related toYork Inner Ring Road
Sem títuloIncludes papers for the organisation of the festival, including the booking of events and artists, correspondence files and sample commemorative items.
Includes documents regarding the future of the aerodrome after the Second World War, as well as documents regarding trespassers on the site.
These volumes contain indexes.
21 1931-36
22 1936-41
23 1941-46
24 1946-49
25 1949-52
26 1952-54
27 1954-57
28 1957-60
29 1960-62
30 1962-64
31 1964-66
32 1966-68
33 1968-71
- 1971-74
Finance and General Purposes Hospitality sub-committee minute book
10a 1957-1966
Finance and General Purposes Mansion House sub-committee minute book
10b 1966-1973
Two of these volumes contain indexes (excluding 1961-1973)
Tramways Committee minutes
1923-29
Tramways and Motors Committee (from 1925) minutes
1929-60
Transport Committee minutes
1961-73
Comprises files relating to the building and maintenance of council housing, particularly in the post-World War II period. Files consist primarily of correspondence and associated papers. .
These volumes include indexes.
Public Library Committee,
1 1909-26
2 1926-42
3 1942-53
Library and Publicity Committee from 1949
4 1953-62
5 1962-73
Includes information on candidates and expenses.
Both volumes are indexed.
Includes correspondence files, work permits and appointment forms. Also includes script for the Mystery Plays and some promotional materials including festival programmes.
Stores Committee minutes
1 1920-34
2 1935-55
Stores & Purchasing Committee minutes
3 1955-63
4 1963-73
Reports related to maintenance and restoriation of City of York council owned properties.
Reports related to maintenance and restoriation of City of York council owned properties.
These volumes contain indexes.
1 1940-54
2 1954-62
3 1963-74
1 1884-89
2 1889-94
3 1894-1905
4 1905-13
5 1913-23
6 1923-1930
7 1930-40
8 1940-49
9 1949-53
10 1953-57
11 1957-63
12 1963-74
Registers of complaints received by the Health Department regarding rodents. Entries typically include situation of property; names of owner and/or occupier, nature of complaint and any action taken. Volumes indexed by street name.
Records of vehicle licensing and registration, including motor cars and motorcycles, and heavy vehicles. Some registers combine cars and motorcycles, whilst others contain just one or the other, so more than one volume may need to be consulted to cover the same licence plate or year range. Registers occasionally include cancellation and transfer dates, plus occasional inserted correspondence.
We are able to provide certified copies of entries for a fee, please see our website or contact us for futher details.
Four of the 28 volumes are restricted under the Data Protection Act (Y/PPT/3/1/9, Y/PPT/3/1/21 to 23 covering the period 1948-1959) Researchers may consult these volumes after filling in a Data Protection Researcher Exemption form. This form may take up to 48 hours to be authorised so please contact us in advance if you wish to see these volumes.
Sem títuloFiles created by City of York Council related to town planning.
These volumes contain indexes
1 1952-62
2 1963-74
Also contains loose minutes:
1947-1950
1955-1958
1959-1965
1966-1974
1974-1978
Ouse Navigation Cttee Minute Books
1837-1846
1846-1870
1870-1883
1883-1888
1888-1895
1895-1902
1902-1907
1907-1914
1914-1923
1923-1938
1938-1957
1957-1968
Ouse & Foss Navigation Minute Book
1968-1974
Sem títuloThe Town Clerk's files relating to health and health services in York. Files comprise correspondence and associated papers. See also Y/HEA/1/3
1 1944-49
2 1949-55
3 1955-57 Including Youth Grants Sub-Committee
4 1958-61
5 1961-64
6 1964-70
7 1970-74 Including Youth Grants Sub-Committee (1965-1969) and Youth Planning and Training Sub-Cttee (1969-73)
1 1962-64
2 1964-74
Bound committee minutes
Papers relating to the organisation of parliamentary elections in York. Includes ballot papers, expenses paperwork and information on postal votes.
Renamed Youth Employment Sub-Commttee from 1949.
Sem títuloComprises papers relating to the testing and regulation of fertilisers and feeding stuffs.
These volumes contain indexes.
1 1961-62
2 1963-74
Volumes listed below
1 Markets Cttee (Cattle Fair Cttee) with accounts 1827-31
2 1836-65
3 1865-85
4 1885-95
5 1895-1907
6 1907-19
7 1919-30
8 1931-46
9 1946-53
10 1953-58
11 1958-1963
12 1963-73
Records relating to the licensing and regulation of ice-cream sales.
Volumes 92.1, 92.2, 92.4, 92.5 and 92.6 are indexed. Volume 92.3 is not.
These volumes contain indexes
Registers of complaint of nuisances and unsanitary conditions. Entries include date of complaint, situation of premises and brief description of complaint, name and address of complainant, date investigated and result (if any). Includes references to Assistant Sanitary Inspectors' report books. Indexed by street name.
Comprises records relating to the registration and oversight of cowsheds, dairies and cowkeepers in York.
Records of the New Earswick Primary School
Records of the Joseph Rowntree Modern School
Includes correspondence, photographs of the Mystery Plays and booklet entitled 'Why Sponsor the York Festival?'
Minutes, agendas and papers of the City of York Council Education Committee
Sem títuloThe collection comprises school magazines.
Records concerning marketing, publicity and media relations relating to education.
This is a selection of the civic archive containing the records which are currently available for access only. Further historical and modern records will be added to this section on a regular basis as they are catalogued..
Includes papers relating to royal visits to York, and civic preparations for jubilee events and coronations.
At present this series only comprises Palatine Flood gauge sheets from 1935 to 1977.
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Various items related to Queen Elizabeth II silver jubilee celebrations around the city and surrounding areas. Includes programmes, correspondence, posters
This series currently comprises meeting minutes for the organisation of the festival.
Comprises papers relating to the oversight and inspection of meat, slaughterhouses and abattoirs.
Includes organisational materials for the festival, as well as promotion items (tickets, invitations to events, event programmes etc). Also includes some publicity material.
Comprises correspondence and associated papers
This series currently comprises a seating plan for the festival.
Comprises records relating to the oversight and licensing of slaughter houses and abattoirs.
Comprises files on enquiry into permanent caravan sites for gypsies. Also includes files with details of past temporary caravan sites in York.
Comprises correspondence and associated papers for the York School Dental Service. The papers mainly concern administrative matters such as staffing, statistics, equipment, training, the organisation of the service, and various aspects of dental health. Includes minutes of the Education Committee, some external committees, and printed promotional literature. Contains some correspondence from patients.
Contains records created by the Streets and Buildings Committee and its sub-committees in the course of their business.
Comprises correspondence and associated papers of the Health Committee. An alphabetical index to the files is included in first box. Files have been weeded prior to deposit in the archive.
This series currently comprises a seating plan for the festival and a plan of the proposed layout of the Museum Gardens.
Town Clerks correspondence files relating to welfare matters. Includes incoming and outgoing correspondence and any associated papers such as reports, printed literature and minutes. Index to files included with first file (ref: Y/SOC/1/1/1).
Comprises notifications and regulations relating to import and export of food.
Records names and addresses of patients with infectious diseases.
Results of examination of samples by the Public Health Laboratory Service
Papers relating to the introduction and administering of the act. Includes returns of accidents.
Rent receipt books for Gypsy caravan sites
This series currently comprises a plan of the Museum Gardens layout for the festival.
Comprises files concerning the presence of Gypsies at the York Racecourse Ebor Festival. The files are primarily concerned with the establishment of temporary sites for gypsies for the duration of the festival.
Comprises background papers and correspondence
This series currently comprises a plan for the access gantry at the rear of St Mary's Abbey, seating plan and proposed layout of the Museum Gardens.
Includes minutes of proceedings, annual reports, financial papers, subscription papers, lists of subscribers and correspondence files.
Sem títuloRecords of cases and sources of infection and transmissions.
Includes accommodation clearance registers, papers regarding billeting, annual reports, papers relating to atomic warfare, civil defence handbooks, general preparations for a nuclear attack, papers relating to the British Association, circulars, York Civil Defence Association, Civil Defence committee minutes, civil protection, competitions, conference papers, papers regarding Control Centres, correspondence files of Arthur Cooke (Civil Defence officer), general correspondence files, demonstration and protest papers, papers regarding Civil Defence equipment, evacuations scheme, exercises and training courses, mass experiments, financial papers (including insurance files), papers relating to the Fire Service, emergency feeding plans, Home Defence papers and correspondence, Head Office files, hospital organisation files, papers relating to Civil Defence in industry and infrastructure, inspection files, membership lists, copies of the Civil Defence Acts, year books, copies of the Civil Defence Officers Journal, Ministry of Health papers, minutes of the Civil Defence committee, papers of the Association of Municipal Corporations, reports and pamphlets relating to the nuclear threat, papers regarding nuclear tests, observations papers, premises files, publicity and recruitment files, papers regarding Hungarian refugees in York, remembrance files, staff resignation and transfer files, papers relating to the Scientific Intelligence Officers and Sector Controllers, shelter files, siren installation, staff papers, technical reconnaisance papers, correspondence with the Town Clerk, papers regarding Civil Defence vehicles, warden's files, the role of the Women's Voluntary Service, and the role of the Yorkshire Yeomanry.
Photographs documenting progress on construction of York Outer Ring Road
Final Report, volumes one and two.