Articles relating to almshouses, abbatoirs, canals and assizes.
Sans titreIssues of the York Evening Press, relating to fires and flooding in York.
Sans titrePhotocopies of Court Rolls, 1447, 1700 and 1852, as well as photocopies of maps of Water Fulford 1745 and 1860-1870.
Sans titreIncludes notes and photocopies relating to Hugh Murrays publication of Whittock's panoramic view of York.
Sans titreOpening of the New Yorkshire Evening Press building by Princess Alexandra.
Sans titreProgramme summary (15 June-8 July).
Sans titreRelates to the Knavesmire Tattoo 13-18 September 1971.
Sans titreCelebration of 500 Years of York Minster.
Sans titreNewspaper cuttings relating to Civic Trust plaques and other plaques: Herbert House, George Hudson, Garforth House (photo of John Shannon), observatory, Abbey Wall, King's Square, Dick Turpin; Mansion House; Richard III; BR Eastern Region HQ; Jewish massacre; York Station (including a photo of Nikolaus Pevsner) and York Minster Gates.
Sans titreCuttings relating to almshouses, abbattoir, canals and assizes.
Sans titreYork bridges and rivers - Ouse, Foss, old bridges and new including Naburn Lock photo 1888. Also includes a photo of the opening of Skeldergate Bridge 1881, the Ouse Ferry, flood defences, barges, riverside walks, Hill's boatyard, new by-pass and ring road, engraving of collapsed Lendal Bridge 1861 and York Waterworks.
Sans titreBlack and white print, 11 x 8 cms
Provenance: None
Duplicates: Yes
Type of item: Modern copy, also large copy 25.5x20 cms
5 smaller and one larger copy of photograph. Note that the larger copy, and 3 of the smaller ones are captioned. On the smaller ones that are captioned 'Ransom' is spelt without the 'e' at the end. Larger photograph caption indicates that the pilgrimage/parade ended at the Knavesmire (Tyburn). Captions on two of the smaller copies indicate that the photograph was taken 'before 1909'.
Sans titre2 images of bill of sale from the George Inn (landlord David Winn) totalling 2 pounds, 1 shilling, 1 pence for food and drink
Format: Black and white, 11 x 8
Provenance: Unknown
1 image of bill of sale from the Golden Punch Bowl, Stonegate (landlord Richardson) for drinks and tobacco, totalling 3 shillings 2 pence.
Sans titreView from Foss Bridge. Evelyn Collection. Copyright: YAYAS. RCHME.
Format: Black and white, 22 x 17
Provenance: Unknown
2 copies, 1 is enlarged.
Sans titreBooks published on York's history, buildings and families, including news reviews and details of books of photos.
Sans titreBlossom Street - building developments; financial problems of Bar Convent; issues related to No. 40 Blossom Street.
Sans titreCastlegate - development of Fairfax House, work of the Civic Trust, other historic buildings, and notes of Hugh Murray.
Sans titreClarence Street cuttings, including Mrs Shaw planting a memorial tree.
Sans titreClementhorpe - redevelopment of the Terry's site, and river views with buildings.
Sans titreCoffee Yard - renovation of Barley Hall and the history of Coffee Yard.
Sans titreColliergate - historic buildings and account of the fire of 1839.
Sans titreCoppergate - development issues, and 'Duttons for Buttons' building.
Sans titreDalton Terrace - funeral of Emily Houden, and letters from Hugh Murray to York Evening Press regarding naming Dalton Terrace.
Sans titreDeangate - traffic congestion and issues near to York Minster.
Sans titreExhibition Square - development of the Exhibition Hall, notes from Hugh Murray regarding the opening of the Exhibition Hall.
Sans titreHaxby Road - removal of Rowntrees Cocoa sign.
Sans titreHeslington - Tillmire Common dispute.
Sans titreLendal - historic buildings and Judges Lodgings. Includes references by Hugh Murray.
Sans titreLittle Stonegate development issues.
Sans titreRowntree family - Homestead Park, centenary news item and large folded 'Masterplan' of Rowntree Park by Landscape Design Associates of Peterborough for City of York Council, 2000.
Sans titreOld York' - large miscellaneous bundle, including school groups, transport, individuals, incidents, sports teams, war damage and shops.
Sans titreRelating to York Museums.
Sans titreRelating to York Minster.
Sans titreContains cuttings relating to York and elsewhere.
Sans titrePhotocopy of a newspaper cuttings volume, with index. It is not known exactly which volume the copies relate to, or its provenance.
Sans titreThe cuttings all relate to heraldry.
Sans titreThe cuttings all relate to York University heraldry and corporate heraldry.
Sans titreThe cuttings are all from magazines and cover a variety of different topics.
Sans titreIncludes St Helen's Square, St Leonard's Place, St Martin's Lane, St Maurice's Road, St Mary's, St Peters Grove and St Sampson's Square.
Sans titreIncludes St Saviourgate, St Saviour's Place, Shambles, Skeldergate, Silver Street, South Parade and Spurriergate.
Sans titreIncludes Pavement, Peasholme Green and Peter Lane.
Sans titreCard index arranged alphabetically by surname.
Sans titreCovers Royal Antediluvian Order of Buffaloes; Vehicle Registration Numbers; Friendly Societies; Horse Tram Staff; NER Constituent Companies and Goldsmiths C to Y.
Sans titreIncludes photographs of Police Officers, offence details, convictions and incident details. Also includes a booklet entitled 'First Hundred Years of North Riding Constabulary', which chronicles the first hundred years of York Police Force, as well as a memorandum entitled 'Keeping Peace in the City' and press cuttings and notes on Police organisation.
Sans titreIncludes 'Old York' (possibly list of slides shown in a talk); notes for the talk 'Servicing the Suburbs' (as they developed); Hungate; Victorian York; development of suburbs; 19th century York; Acomb, Clifton, Haxby Road, Huntington Road, Heworth, Bishopthorpe Road, Fulford and Dringhouses. Each talk note has a list of numbered and named slides.
Sans titreIncludes Lendal Bridge and the Minster; the Bridges of York; River Ouse; bridges and the Foss.
Sans titreIncludes details of seven separate talks, with information about the compilation of slides, evidently to quiz the audience and test their awareness of York.
Sans titreIncludes a scrapbook 1885-1985, as well as two files of notes relating to York suburbs.
Sans titreHandwritten notes on Heslington Hall, including a wallet of notes with extracts from a number of books.
Sans titreFull size copy of Country Life article on Heslington Hall from 19 July 1913. Also includes a short document describing the proposed site for the University of York.
Sans titreA number of documents about the early activity in the Assembly Rooms. Includes a photocopy of the 1729 list and account of interest and arrears with Subscription list of 1777, listing the 190 original subscribers and the present proprietors. Also includes a List of Nobility and Gentry appearing at the Assembly Rooms in the Race Week of 1776.
Sans titreBundle of notes extracted from undefined sources (M23/1) with extracts from the records of the Assembly Rooms. The notes start in 1730 with the purchase of Mr George Gibson's house on Finkle Street to enable a passage to be built for drains. Ends 1773 (marked as p155 of the original source).
Sans titreBook 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'.
Sans titreA detailed list of firectories of York and Yorkshire (which include York) from 1781 to 1975. Also list of Yorkshire Directories 1781-1940 from the North Yorkshire County Libraries Holdings. Some duplicate copies.
Sans titreResearch notes and photographs relating to numbers 19, 30 and 32 Goodramgate.
Sans titreResearch notes and photographs about the history of Skeldergate.
Sans titreFamily pedigrees for Acastre; Atkinson; Akenhead; Armitage; Archer and Aitken.
Sans titreFamily pedigrees for Agar.
Sans titreFamily pedigrees for Anderson (including Yorkshire Herald cutting from 28 August 1913 reporting the death of Dr. Tempest Anderson); Angel. Also includes secondary source material and articles on the history of Tempest Anderson.
Sans titreNotes, photocopies and pedigrees for: Burkill; Boulton; Bushell; Busby; Balmford; Barstow; Boddy; Barlow; Burke; Border; Butterworth; Benson; Backhouse; Brown and Brook.
Sans titreNotes, photocopies and pedigrees for: Baker; Brown; Bentley; Bromley; Banwell; Booth; Bohun; Bentley; Barnett; Burdekin; and Barra.
Sans titreNotes, photocopies and pedigrees for: Bowman.
Sans titreWorking papers, documents, letters and pedigrees for: Daniel; Dacre; Dixon; Driffield; Ditmas; Dove; Duke; Dillon; Daley; Dean; Dibb and Dealtry.
Sans titreWorking papers, documents, letters and pedigrees for: Ellis; Elcock; and Ellison.
Sans titreWorking papers, documents, letters and pedigrees for: Faulkner; Fairclough; Fleming; Fairfax; Flower and Fisher.
Sans titreWorking papers, documents, letters and pedigrees for: Harton; Hurworth; Heselwood; Howard/Hornsey; Hartley; Geo. Hudson; Hemmens; Hutchinson; Hick; Hebden; Hibbert; Hayes; Husband; Hansom; Harrowell; Hassard; Halfpenny; House; Heaton; Hollow; Harker; Hawt
Sans titreWorking papers, documents, letters and pedigrees for: Keld and Knowles.
Sans titreWorking papers, documents, letters and pedigrees for: Leeman, including correspondence with Reg and Andrea Leeman, photocopies of wills, indenture, conveyance, several birth marriage and death certificates, letters fromPhilip and Walter Leeman, press cutt
Sans titreWorking papers, documents, letters and pedigrees for: Leetham (including documents and birth certificate, press cuttings) and Lacy.
Sans titreWorking papers, documents, letters and pedigrees for: Mangy; Morine; Meadley; Moody; Moore; Mills; Matthews; Morris; Mouncer; Meyer; Morritt and Milling.
Sans titreWorking papers, documents, letters and pedigrees for: Monkhouse; Munby; Mahalski and Melrose.
Sans titreWorking papers, documents, letters and pedigrees for: Procter; Penty; Philipson; Pulleyn; Patterson; Purnell; Pumphrey; Piercy; Peacock and Pedlar.
Sans titreWorking papers, documents, letters and pedigrees for: Varvill and Varvills of Norfolk and Durham.
Sans titreWorking papers, documents, letters and pedigrees for: Walker; Wightman; Wilde; Waddington; Wentworth; Wilson H.A. (St. Olave's School); Wilkinson; Wright; Ware; Wood; Whitworth; Watson; Whip(p); Weadley and Wilson (Harold Wilson, Prime Minister).
Sans titreIncludes pedigrees for Tancred, Fairfax, Constable of Wasand, Constable of Flamborough, Clare, Wilberforce, Hamilton, Manners, Lords of Tanfield, Mulgrave, Parker, de Portington, de Rythre, Scrope, Shireburn, Vavasour, Rokeby, Danby, Kilton and Skelton, Strickland and Lascelles.
Sans titreIncludes pedigrees for Vavasour and Hazelwood; Washington; Talbot; Skelbrooke; the descent of Fountains Abbey; Grey; Upsall; Osgodby; and various notes on less well known families.
Sans titreHandwritten and typed letters to and from Val Portas.
Sans titreThe genealogies relate to Freemen of York.
Sans titreIncludes tramways amendments (possibly notes for Hugh Murray's book, plus 'list of plans and illustrations' and sections redrafted. Also includes photostats of 1878 initial proposals for tramways in York, photocopies of two articles on the history of tranways by George Jackson, and a photostat of the Tramway Orders Confirmation Act 1879.
Sans titreIncludes Hugh Murray's manuscript with paste-ups, sections 3 - 4, (numbered in red) plus notes, manuscript timetables (c 1900), figures regarding tracks, expenses and receipts and population information. Also includes negotiations between York Corporation and the Tramways Company (1899-1906) plus report dated 1907 of agreement to sell the undertaking to the Corporation, memorandum on the position of the Tramways Company and proposals, poll of owners and ratepayers, and article from 'Modern Tramway' Magazine entitled 'Perspectives of Modern Tramways 1978.'
Sans titrePencil manuscript of Hugh's book 'Horse Tramways of York' 1880-1909, 140 pp., wired together.
Sans titreIncludes working documents, council papers, press cuttings, and additional materials relating to the H Murray publication 'The Horse Tramways of York'. Also includes a railway chronology of York; and City of York report of the Tramways Committee 1909.
Sans titreIncludes lecture notes, after dinner speech, retirement speech (including biographical details), and general notes on railway history.
Sans titreIncludes press supplements on the closure of the carriage works and the opening of the National Railway Museum, photos and elevations of the railway offices, Station Hotel invoices and old publications.
Sans titreHistory of number plate DN7.
Sans titreHandwritten research notes compiled by Hugh Murray.
Sans titreThe cuttings relate to the launch of Hugh Murray's book on historic pubs in and around York.
Sans titreHeld in a ringbinder folder. Includes newspaper cuttings and handwritten notes.
Sans titreNotes on the wills of goldsmiths, arranged alphabetically.
Sans titrePapers grouped by Hugh Murray: notes and photocopies of Huntington Collection, York, silverware by Mrs E.M. Sessions; Sessions correspondence regarding York silver booklist; list of Freemen Goldsmiths; photocopy of 'Notes on printers and printing'; and typed list of York Silversmiths.
Sans titreYork Goldsmiths and Silversmiths: A first alphabetical check list compiled by Hugh Murray.
Sans titreDirectory of York Goldsmiths and Silversmiths by H. Murray, as well as an article on Christopher Harrington, York 1614. Includes a list of names.
Sans titreIncludes 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.
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