Instructions to presiding officers and poll clerks
Letter to the Municipal electors of Bootham Ward from Ralph Davison and Robert Marchant
Registers of electors eligible to vote in parochial elections. Please note, these items are a duplicate set of registers - our full set of registers can be found in the Archives Reading Room.
Registers of electors eligible to vote in municipal elections. Please note, these items are a duplicate set of registers - our full set of registers can be found in the Archives Reading Room.
Incomplete series of registers of electors eligible to vote in parliamentary elections. Please note, these items are a duplicate set of registers - our full set of registers can be found in the Archives Reading Room.
Registers of electors eligible to vote in local government elections.
Includes minutes of meetings of the Committee of York School of Art, covering issues of concern to the management of the school.
Miscellaneous receipts and vouchers relating to expenses incurred by the York School of Art.
The magazine was issued quarterly and contained articles, details of sports competitions, school rolls and information on the Old Boys' Association. During the First World War it also includes details of military honours obtained by former pupils and a roll of honour. The magazine was reissued in 1939, reverting to 'Volume 1', and during the Second World War the magazine includes lists of former pupils serving in HM Armed Forces.
The magazine was usually issued three times a year and contained articles, details of sports competitions, school rolls and information on the Old Boys' Association. Incomplete set with some duplicate editions.
Includes an introduction to the society and an incomplete set of reunion dinner menus, 1947-1961. Reunions were held twice a year, in Spring and November.
The magazine was initially published four times per year and included articles about the school, staff, pupils and school clubs. By 1949 was being published annually in July. Editions for 1912-1914, 1916-1921, 1925-1928, 1932-1939, 1948, 1955 and are missing.
The reports include details of staff changes, exam pass rates and school events.
Photographs of year 11 school pupils (1992) and headmistresses (1930s-1960s).
Currently includes one hymn board, one plaque commemorating the opening of the school library, and one wooden sign saying 'Queen Anne Grammar School.'
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The magazine was initially published twice a year and included articles about the school, staff, pupils and school clubs. The magazine was published annually from around the 1950s onwards. Incomplete set. For earlier editions please see Y/EDU/1/3/1.
Volumes 1 to 6 of the journal.
The magazine was initially published twice a year and included articles about the school, staff, pupils and school clubs. For future editions please see Y/EDU/1/3/2.
Volume 2 numbers 1-16.
Incomplete set - numbers 1, 2, 4-8, 19-26, 28-32 and 36 are missing.
Incomplete set - includes programmes for 'The Pirates of Penzance,' 'The Yeoman of the Guard,' 'The Gondoliers,' 'The Winters Tale', 'Ruddigore' and 'King Lear.'
This series includes three catalogues of books held in the York Subscription Library, as well as a pen and ink sketch of the interior of the building.
Includes a pamphlet 'A friendly Parting Shot at the Defeated and Discomfited Free Library Committee' (with covering letter), a flyer entitled 'Mr. George Leeman's Last Words to his Fellow Citizens, November 11th, 1881', one catalogue of books held in the library, a collection of newspaper articles collected by the York Free Library Committee, correspondence files and architectural drawings.
Operational records and photographs of York Public Library, including drawings, stock books, accessions registers and papers regarding the foundation of the library in 1892. Also includes papers regarding the new premises for the library in Museum Street.
York Public LibraryContains information on owners, rivers the boats used, cargo, size and subsequent owners.
Includes place of registration, masters name and owners name and address. First volume missing.
Details of the registration of the boats 'Evelyn' and 'Beatrice.'
Includes reports to the Markets, Ouse and Foss Watch Committee, Ouse and Foss Committee reports and River Manager report books.
River Manager, Naburn LockIncludes returns regarding traffic through Naburn lock. Also includes details of commodities, tonnage and dues, as well as some quarterly and annual returns.
Includes details of each vessel, its cargo and destination.
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.
Includes monthly accounts for dues and towage, as well as returns from the Ouse Navigation Company for Hull and York.
The carbon copies contain details of charges due for each vessel, the name of the captain and master, and particulars of the boat.
Includes details of money paid by pleasure boats passing through Naburn Lock.
Includes descriptions of each job done, names of staff carrying it out, National Insurance contributions and total wages paid.
Copies of letters sent by the River Manager.
River Manager, Naburn LockIncoming correspondence sent to the manager of Naburn Lock.
The notebooks contain information on water levels, soundsing and dredging the river around Naburn Lock.
The correspondence is chiefly concerned with the war effort and defence.
Annual desk diaries used by a member of staff working at Naburn Lock.
Includes report of the Ouse Navigation Committee to York City Council, with a map of the river, September 1881; plan of the Ouse from York to Hull; report by Thoman Rhodes, C.E with map of River Ouse from Linton Lock to Selby, 1834; report by Thomas Rhode
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.
This series primarily includes rules and bye-laws pertaining to the Humber Conservancy.
Includes copies of Canal Boat Acts, reports into the usage of British Waterways, Royal Commission reports and papers relating to companies who passed through Naburn Lock.
Includes plans and associated correspondence papers relating to sewage systems in York.
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.
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Registers of recognisances entered into by brewers, innholders etc re: sale of Ale, selling meat during Lent and playing unlawful games 3 volumes. Y/ENV/2/1/1/1 (1552-1564) Y/ENV/2/1/1/2 (1586-1595) Y/ENV/2/1/1/3 (1596-1605)
Alehouse registers of recognizances for various dates and wards including the Ainsty as follows:
Register of licences granted in the licensing district of the county of the City of York. Includes street and parish, sign of house, description of licence, value of premises, holder of licence and changes. Contain index by name of licence holder.
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.
Papers of the Local Board of Health regarding an enquiry into the erection of a public slaughterhouse in York. Includes initial enquiry and replies from other local authorities; list of complaints against private slaughterhouses in York; particulars of animals slaughtered in York; reports of the Sub-Committee on Slaughterhouses; and a petition from butchers in York against the erection of a public slaughterhouse.
Comprises correspondence and associated papers concerning regulation, licensing, humane slaughter, public abattoir, and condemned meat.
Papers relating to the administrations and oversight of Murton Abattoir in York.
Registers of premises, dairymen and cowkeepers
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 papers relating to the control of outbreaks of Bovine Tuberculosis
Comprises sheets recording numbers of animal slaughtered and certificates for unsound meat surrendered to the inspector.
Black and white photographs of slaughterhouses in York. Includes images of slaughterhouses in Barbican Place, and Clementhorpe
Correspondence regarding patients and services
Comprises undated reports and detached pages of reports from the Medical Officer of Health. All reports are signed by Dr Robert Cattley.
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.
Annual returns of all lunatics by the Clerk of the York Board of Guardians. Lists name, age, gender and residence (for example, name of asylum or other residence) of all lunatics chargeable to the York Poor Law Union.
Lists name of lunatic, name of poor law union paying the charges, and date of admission. Includes pauper lunatics as well as private and criminal patients. From 1918 returns include a list of 'Service lunatics' from WW1 [note that there are gaps in the series]
General administrative correspondence relating to precautions under the responsibility of the Health Department.
Includes correspondence and related papers regarding feeding the population of York in an emergency and providing communal feeding facilities (British Restaurants).
Correspondence and associated papers related to the establishment and management of additional nurseries during World War II.
Comprises correspondence, individual reports of accidents at work and statistical information on accidents in the workplace.
Comprises correspondence, individual reports of accidents at work and statistical information on accidents in the workplace.
General correspondence files primarily concerning stock and equipment.
Registers of dangerous drugs received and dispensed at Clifford Street Dispensary