Includes an agreement for sale and 28 letters between the Town Clerk of the City of Leeds and Gray, Dodsworth & Co.
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Sans titreIncludes an agreement for sale and 28 letters between the Town Clerk of the City of Leeds and Gray, Dodsworth & Co.
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Sans titreIncludes two annual reports for the York branch of the YMCA, and one report for the YMCA York & District Mission to the deaf and dumb (with rules and balance sheet).
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Typed copies of Collectors' outgoing correspondence. Primarily comprises letters to individuals demanding payment for the maintenance of their relatives in receipt poor relief.
The magazine includes information on the school's sports clubs, important information about the school and its pupils. Initially published four times per year, the magazine was published six-monthly from the 1970s and by 1984 began to be published annually.
Sans titreComprises registers relating to the oversight and inspection of midwives following the Midwives Act, 1902
At present this collection only comprises one photograph, with a key to the men shown.
The annual reports were produced by the management committee of the school as a way of reflecting on the performance of the school over the previous year. Each report includes photographs and details of school performance and special events. The reports from 1915 to 1963 have been bound, whilst those editions from 1964 onwards are unbound.
Comprises treasurer's financial ledgers for the York Poor Law Union and York Out-Relief Union.
Certificates and additional papers relating to the Merchant Taylors company, of whom G W Harding was a member.
Order book and list of customers for J W Ruddock, Tailors.
At present this collection only comprises one minute book.
Includes meeting minutes, correspondence files, general papers of NALGO, policies and procedures, annual reports by Local Authorities, subcommittee meetings, Castle Museum papers, publications and circulars, North Yorkshire County Working Party files, Yorkshire and Humberside District files, Yorkshire Provincial Council Papers, papers relating to job regrading, strike campaign papers, York Municipal Officers Guild, newspaper cuttings, questionnaires, job descriptions, Joint Shop Steward Committee papers and papers concerning individual NALGO employees.
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Approved minutes of the York Poor Law Union Children's Committee and Boarding Out Comittee; and the Children's and Boarding Out Sub-Committees of the Public Assistance Committee.
Most volumes are indexed.
See also PLU/1/8 for combined minutes and PLU/6 for other records relating to child welfare.
Sans titreVolumes of sheet music and songs performed or collected by the York Musical Society, including music composed by T. Tertius Noble. Also includes a poem composed about a practices of the society choir.
Includes papers relating to proposed Son et Lumiere festivals, York Minster, St Joan performance, York Pageant and Murder in the Cathedral.
Promotional materials produced by the City of York YMCA to advertise their mission and services. Please see item level descriptions for more detailed information about the contents of this series.
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These volumes have indexes.
Strays Committee - becomes Parks and Smallholdings Committee in 1913
51.1 1907-21
52.1 1921-28
2 1928-35
3 1935-43
4 1943-49
5 1949-53
6 1953-57
plus draft Parks and Smallholdings Committee minutes
52a 1951-1952
Sans titreLog books for Castlegate School
Comprises punishment book, register of detention and register of restraint of inmates/patients
Registers concerning inmates receiving indoor relief
The collection comprises school magazines.
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These volumes contain indexes.
Known as Commercial Development Committee between 1907-1909
Published books retained by Harold Edgar Bloor during the course of his life.
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Contains administrative papers and promotional material, including publications and news cuttings, relating to the festival. The conductor of the York Musical Society, T. Tertius Noble, acted as the secretary for the festival.
Includes finanical correspondence, copies of reports and accounts and cheque books and stubs.
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Comprises relief books of the District Medical Offices of the York Poor Law Union, and, after 1930, the Public Assistnce Committee; also includes prescriptions subsidised by the Public Assistance Commitee
Please see WAL/4 for a parallel series of cash books. It is assumed that the different series relate to different parts of the Walkers business.
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Smallholdings and Allotments Committee to 1922, Allotments Committee from 1922
1 1908-24
2 1924-49
3 1949-61
Published annual reports and balance sheets. By 1914 the Association was incorporating the Tuberculosis Crusade Committee and the Infant's Welfare Association.
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At present this series only comprises one annual report for the year 1909-1910.
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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
Log books, reports and financial documents relating to the governance and activities of the Settlement.
At present this collection only comprises one volume, showing lists of subscribers.
Includes the marriage certificate of Harry and Esther Chapman, baptism certificate of their daughter Betty and death certificates of both Harry and Esther.
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Petty cash books for the York Poor Law Union, and, after 1930, the Public Assistance Committee.
Annual reports published by the Yorkshire Herald Newspaper Co Ltd.
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Photographs of Sydney John Holmes, particularly during his war service. Please see item level descriptions for more detailed information about the contents of this series.
Inspection records of the Sanitary Inspector, Department of Health. Records inspections of insanitary conditions in houses (including inadequate sanitary facilities and drainage); inspections of common lodgings houses; food sampling and analysis; and slaughterhouse and meat inspections. Books from 1933 onwards includes reports of overcrowding. Indexed by street
Includes details of customers and items ordered and alterations required with costings. Each book belonged to a different tailor working for Ruddock's Tailors.
Includes draft and final tenancy agreements, correspondence and other papers.
Includes cuttings from the First World War, report of the presentation to H E Bloor on leaving Carlisle Gas Works, cuttings from the Second World War dealing with some of its more controversial aspects, H. E. Bloor’s son’s capture by the Italians etc.
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The records include job advertisements, signed agreements of employees, wage books, correspondance regarding wages and termination of employment.
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The items in this collection were deposited in the York Reference Library primarily, by a number of different people, many of whom are now unknown. The cuttings are arranged into series by the year in which they were catalogued.
Includes correspondence, original writings and other documents relating to the life and work of Harold Edgar Bloor.
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These volumes include details of individual cases heard by the Court of Summary Jurisdiction (including the verdict for each case). Books for July 1966-17 August 1966 are missing. From 1971 these records relate to York Magistrates Court.
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Minute Books of various committees, councils, and other groups responsible for the governance of the Settlement, 1911-1961
The records includes plans and correspondance regarding maintanence, refurbishment/extension to the club (at St Leonard's), and movement to new premises at Museum Street. Also included are inventories and valuations of furnishings, and papers relating to licensing of the premises.
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Comprises papers relating to the planning, organisation and delivery of the Royal Sanitary Institute Congress in York.
Information and attendance cards, tickets, and booklets issued to members.
Letters and associated correspondence received by F J Munby at the point of his retirement from the business of Munby and Scott.
Includes one form entitled 'Recommendation Return', one discharge certificate and one postcard from a prisoner of war in Munster. Also includes discharge certificate from the end of the First World War and a notebook of lecture notes.
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Includes the Provision of Meals Sub-Commttee & Maintenance Grants and Meals Sub-Commttee, 1912-18 and 1922-32, and the Provision of Meals Sub-Committee 1932-34.
Sans titreIncludes photographs of various structures and monuments in York. The monuments are individually listed.
General files on a variety of topics retained by Harold Edgar Bloor during the course of his working life.
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Includes papers relating to the opening of new branches in Beverley and Selby.
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Comprises registers of staff and registers of leave
See also PLU/11/3/5 for Workhouse staff wages receipt books.
Renamed Youth Employment Sub-Commttee from 1949.
Sans titreHandwritten minutes of meetings of the Parish Council in volumes from 1912 to 1983. There is also a set of typed minutes, distributed to relevant parties, between 1978 and 2004. Minutes for 1997 to 2000 inclusive are currently still held by the Parish Council.
Minutes books of committee and sub-committee meetings.
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These files are the original transcripts and evidence supplied in the course of investigations by the York coroners office.
Sans titreCopy letterbook containing primarily personal correspondence.
General wages books for members of staff of the council.
Records names and addresses of patients with infectious diseases.
Files relating to a variety of different subjects in which Harold Bloor was working.
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Minute books for the Committee as well as the Finance and Administration sub-committees.
Papers relating to the operational activities of the Committee including reparations to victims of the Zeppelin Raids in York and relief for families of men in the forces. Also includes papers on the sub-committees and other funds such as the National Food Fund and establishment of other social services.
Matilda Emily Webber died on 18 July 1917. This series includes Inland Revenue accounts and correspondence, copy of the will of Matilda Emily Webber, license, death certificate, valuation of jewellery, lists of trustees.
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Sans titreCash Books including information on balance and expenditure for household goods, sundries, food staff wages and accounts.
Great war notes and lists of men for Roll of Honour 1918
List of ex Prisoners of War from York incarcerated during the First World War
List of York men killed 1914 - 1918 and some correspondence from next of kin.
List of ex-Prisoners of War 1914 - 1919
List of repatriated Prisoners of War
Notes by City of York & District Family History Society on the York World War I Index
Papers concerning the establishment and allocation of staff salaries
Comprises papers relating to the accommodation and maintenance of adults and children with learning disabilities ('mental deficiency').
Includes reports from the Board of Control, The Incorporation of National Institutions for Persons Requiring Care and Control; The Royal Albert Institution in Lancaster; the Yorkshire Association for Mental Welfare; and the Mental After Care Association. Also includes minutes of the East Riding and York Joint Board for the Mentally Defective; a printed volume of medical PR actioners approved by the Board of Control; and copies of the Mental Deficiency Acts.
Customer account ledgers, arranged by customer and detailing projects worked on and the overall costs. Later volumes are often split into multiple parts by customer surname. The volumes for 1930-1932 are missing.
Comprises poor rate books for wards within the city area of the York Poor Law Union.
Information recorded for each rateable property may include: name of occupier; name of owner; description of property (e.g. house, garden, public house); name and situation of property; rateable value of property; amount of rate; amount of rate collected.
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Bound committee minutes
Sans titreThese letters of thanks were received from members of the armed forces from York on active service during the First World War, following the decision by the council to send each of them a present of a bar of chocolate for Christmas 1914. As a result the letters are more commonly referred to as the Chocolate Letters. The letters are individually numbered and arranged alphabetically by surname.
Includes legal documents, assurance papers, mortgages, releases and conveyances relating to the Cayley's settlement and settled estates. Also includes details for the appointment of new trustees.
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Sans titreIncludes newspaper cuttings relating to the Middle East and Far East.
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Files relating to patents, the gas industry and the future of gas in York. Includes reports and associated correspondence written by H E Bloor.
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Series of Delegate Meeting minutes. This committee was later known as the General Management Committee.
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Files comprise correspondence and notes on individuals who came under the supervision of the Yorkshire Association of Mental Welfare. Individuals supervised were regarded as being learning impaired; having some form of mental disability,; or being at risk of developing mental health issues. Summary information for each case may be found by consulting the case cards (see YAM/1).
Correspondence files on specific individuals in the care of the York local authority.
Letters sent by Sydney John Holmes to his mother, father and sister whilst he was on active duty in Ypres in the First World War. Also includes a published book based on the letters.
Includes business and personal correspondence of family members, as well as financial papers. See file level descriptions for more detailed information.
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Housekeeper's store books
Correspondence, applications and orders for individuals applying for and recieving financial aid such as employment support and pensions.
Correspondence relating to Mennell Sawmill.
These volumes include details of individual cases heard by the Juvenile Court of the Court of Summary Jurisdiction (including the verdict for each case). From 1945 these records refer to the Juvenile Court. Records for 1934 and 1935 and February-July 1980 are missing.
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Includes probate of the will of Matilda Emily Webber, estate duty relating to the Transvaal and estate accounts.
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This series comprises 7 bound volumes, the diaries of Cuthbert Joseph Kleiser (1855-1929). They mainly focus on events in York, particularly associated with the theatre and dramatic arts. They are handwritten.
Includes one photograph of Robert Benton with his wife and eldest son (father of the depositor), one photograph of Robert Benton with officers from his regiment, two photographs of him recovering from injuries sustained in 1918 and one photograph taken after the First World War. Digital copies of all these items also exist.