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includes discussions about meetings and delegates, land discussions, loan payments and recipients, and content of meetings. Also includes employee applications.

Account books for individual prisoners held in York debtors prison, as well as books and invoices of small businesses. The account books often have the trial date at York Castle written on the cover. The final box in the series contains account books which are currently unidentified, although professions have been noted. Please note that this collection does not include account books for all debtors held in the prison.

The books are arranged alphabetically by surname, and include:
John James Anderson; William Armitage; James Barra; William Barwick; Henry Bell; Thomas Belt; Thomas Benn; James Binnington; David Brocklebank; John Cariss; Joseph Cole; Right Honorable John Dales (Lord Mayor); George Dalton; William Darbyshire; Austin Dawson; John Dawson; William Dobson; Thomas Dove; Thomas Fisher; John Harrison; Joseph Hepworth; John Heslington; Thomas Hesp; John Hick; Henry Holmes; George Hustwick (the elder); Henry Inglis; James Jackson; John Jackson; R Johnson; Marcy Kemp; HC (or Frances) Kilby / Kirby; John Robson Lambert; Charles Linfoot;
Thomas Luckhurst; William Mangles; John Masser(?); John Morton; Thomas Musgrave; George Nicholson; Robert Oake(s); James Oates; Richard Palfreyman; William Foster Percevell; R Perkins; George Pinder; George Pulleyn; John Rippon; Frances Robwson; Thomas Scowby; William Shiletto; Benjamin Sivres; Nathaniel Smith; Thomas Spaven; James Stone; John Stephenson; William Stoker; Thomas Taylor; W Turner; Robert Walker; William Whitwell(?); and James Wilson.

Detailed list of subscribers and those who own shares. There are also details of those who have not paid and how many times they have been called.

Includes petitions, dispute papers, deeds and property transactions.

Contains two legal documents regarding the payment of the mortgage, documents regarding who the loans to the company are from, and additional correspondence.

Includes permission for the Foss Navigation Company to carry on looking after the land.

Contains information relating to the work of the engineer.

Drawn in very faint pencil, possibly for St. Leonard's Row - Drawing type: Floor plan
Drawing number (if any):
Scale: No legible scale
Size: Small
Names: No names indicated

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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 as they are catalogued.

This collection currently comprises a history of York City Fire Brigade, annual reports of City of York Fire Brigade, fire engineer log book, record of city fires and record of premises registered under the explosives act.

Records relating to the York Court of Record. Includes Cash Books, Appearance Book, Judgement Rolls Court Registers, Account Book etc.

Includes papers regarding public toilets in York, and photographs of York structures and monuments.

Includes concerns and questions regarding the changes, and details of outstanding accounts and payments. Also includes details of upcoming meeting proposals.

Includes:
E60a: Transcriptions of City Charters, volume I;
E60b: Transcriptions of City Charters, volume II;
E60c: Transcript of a charter of King Edward VI, issued in 1547.
E60d: Translation of Two Charters relating to the Common Council of the City of York by a citizen 1662 and 1676

At present this collection comprises papers on partnerships and twinning, Lord Mayors and Sheriffs, civic ceremonies and royal occasions.

Handwritten description of painting work carried out at the Mansion House in the nineteenth century

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 as they are catalogued. The collection currently comprises records on festivals and celebrations and facilities and services.

Comprises plans relating to drainage and sanitary conditions of buildings; improvement and clearance plans; and plans of emergency and communal feeding facilities. Includes plans of Rowntree and Company Cocoa Works and Joseph Terry and Sons buildings.

Detailing the penalty that will occur if caught throwing items into the river.

Comprises plans relating to the construction and maintenance of sewers, culverts, and drainage pipes
and to the installation of infrastructre for utiliites, such as gas and electricity.

At present this collection comprises records relating to parliamentary and municipal elections. Further historical and modern records will be added as they are catalogued.

Includes correspondence and associated papers, summary of accounts, names of the jury on the Ouse enquiry, application for Naburn Lock Keeper and solicitors letters and documents regarding alleged damage.

Includes paperwork and applications for various civic posts, including Town Clerk, Parks Superintendant, herdsmen of the Knavesmire, Market Superintendant, engineers, Chief Constable, Medical Officer of Health and coroner.

At present this collection comprises papers relating to York School of Art and York City Art Gallery.

Comprises plans of proposed new streets and roads, street widenings, changes in street layout, street resurfacing, changes to street furniture, and slum clearances.

Comprises plans relating to public transport (including trams)
improvements to river navigation (including canals and locks)
and bridge plans (including structural drawings).

Includes balance sheets and accounts for gas companies.

Records of the Ouse and Foss Navigation Company, including official documents, correspondence, court case papers regarding a dispute with Leethams Mill, reports and accounts.

Comprises papers relating to the building, widening, paving and general improvement of York's streets. Includes street renumbering records; and street improvement papers for the following areas: Castlegate and Water Lanes; Jubbergate; Spurriergate and Coney Street; Little Blake Street (Duncombe Place); Heslington Road; Gillygate, Skeldergate and Holgate Road; Monkgate and Layerthorpe.
Note only street improvements undertaken prior to the establishment of the Streets and Buildings Committee (i.e. up to c1890) have been catalogued. Later records relating to street improvements are currently uncatalogued.

Comprises records relating to town planning, slum clearances and improvements. Includes housing improvement and clearance records; Streets and Buildings Committee papers; street improvement papers (part-catalogued only); town planning files; plans of the Health Department; development programmes; North Yorkshire County Structure plans; conservation records and local plans.

Includes plans relating to property and housing
transport and bridges
street improvements and clearances
sewerage, utilities and drainage
boundaries and other plans.

The plans are principally executed by architects, engineers, surveyors, and draughtspeople employed by the City of York Council and its predecessor bodies. However, the collection also includes plans by external architects and engineers, usually acting on a consultancy basis for the council.

NOTE: this collection has not been catalogued in its entirety. We will be adding entries to this catalogue as more plans are listed.

The committees are reporting on the improvement of the docks and the drainage system.

For relevant minutes see Y/COU/5/4. Includes papers relating to Naburn Lock, Foss Navigation Company, Ouse Navigation Company, Ouse and Foss Navigation Company and sewerage.

Plan and elevation - Drawing type: Plan and elevation
Drawing number (if any):
Scale: 1 inch:1 foot
Size: Small
Names: York Corporation

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Includes records relating to York Mansion House as a tourist or business venue.

Includes papers relating to Archbishop Holgate's Grammar School, Queen Anne's Grammar School, Nunthorpe Grammar School, Mill Mount Grammar School and Park Grove Primary School.

Includes plans of civic and private buildings, parks, recreation grounds and facilities, social housing, and other property that the City of York Council and its predecessor bodies either owned or had an interest in.

Volumes listing brief descriptions of planning applications

Comprises boundary plans of York (including plans for changes to municipal and electoral boundaries), plans of strays, parishes and other plans/maps of the York area. Also includes templates for signage.

Both letters are unfinished.

Also includes details of payments made by subscribers.

Elevation drawing of Foss Bridge and houses alongside street plan of Foss Bridge and Walmgate streets, Includes details of adjacent houses and occupiers/owners - Drawing type: Elevation and street plan
Drawing number (if any):
Scale: 1 inch:10 feet
Size: Large
Names: Signed by P[eter] Atkinson March 1801

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• Drawing type: Street plan
  Drawing number (if any):
  Scale: No scale
  Size: Large
  Names: Samuel Waud Esq, Mrs. Macey, Per. Wentworth Esq

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Includes queries regarding shares and letters to shareholders.

Includes accounts with the Lord Mayor, accounts of John Brooks with the Foss Navigation Company, Bill of W Plummer and various bills owed.

Shows stables and Multangular tower. Note, plan is incorrectly stamped 1870. - Drawing type: Site plan
Drawing number (if any):
Scale: No scale
Size: Medium
Names: No names indicated

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General committee and committee appointed for the management of the revenues of the corporation

1 1805-1811
E77 1816-1828
E77a 1828-1835

Small plan showing three plots on Hagg Closes owned by the Corporation of York - Drawing type: Plan
Drawing number (if any):
Scale: 1 inch: 66 feet
Size: Small
Names: Corporation of York

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Bar walls - Drawing type: Street plan
Drawing number (if any):
Scale: 1 inch: 1 chain
Size: Small
Names: D Tuke

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Plan showing land on corner of Hungate and Hover Lane, showing use of buildings - Drawing type: Plan
Drawing number (if any):
Scale: 8 feet : 1 inch
Size: Large
Names: Peter Atkinson

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Includes petitions, dispute and judgment papers, meeting minutes, inclosure papers, deeds and property transactions, pasturemaster accounts.

The names of the sheriffs are written in one hand, with their place of residence nad date of shrievalty in another. Each impression is in red sealing wax on an individual card. Impressions: fair.

E86: Assessment made April 1596 for York's contribution to Ship of War to set forth from Hull.

E63: Book containing assessments, orders, warrants and proceedings relating to the civil war for the safety and defence (c.1645-)

E89: Fines and amercements for raising money for wars against France and Ireland (c.1660-1685)

E90: Contributions to royal aid and supplies in Walmgate ward parish (c.1660-1685)

E86A: Minutes of commissioners appointed under Acts of Parliament to raise proportions payable by City and Ainsty towards ships of war and disbanding of the army (c.1673-1678)

E91: Assessments made in City and Ainsty re: royal aid land tax for 1750-1777

E75: Militia accounts between the City of York, three Ridings of Yorkshire, Durham etc (1809)

Includes topics such as agreeing upon selling small parts of land, and informing him of proxy votes.

Includes reports by Thomas Rhodes Esq, Civil Engineer, as well as Ouse posters, cashiers document, correspondence and Acts regarding altering the Ouse Bridge (Stamped Geo III).

Plan showing Micklegate Bar and Barbican. Note stating 'Part of this wall fell down on the night of 6th April' - Drawing type: Plan
Drawing number (if any):
Scale: 1 1/2 inch : 10 feet
Size: Medium
Names: Atkinson, Rich

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