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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)

These volumes contain indexes.

1 1961-62
2 1963-74

Copies of York Where to Stay magazine for the years 1972,1973, 1975-1982, 1987, 1989, 1991 and 1993

Report on a central area traffic scheme

Includes minutes of proceedings, annual reports, financial papers, subscription papers, lists of subscribers and correspondence files.

Inspections and reports on drains, sanitary facilities and food hygiene.

Photographs documenting progress on construction of York Outer Ring Road

General administrative papers relating to the operation and maintenance of the York Maternity Hospital.

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

Reports, studies and development opportunities related toYork Inner Ring Road

Bound committee minutes.

Volumes 89.1, 89.4, and 89.5 are indexed, volumes 89.2 and 89.3 are not.

Volume is indexed.

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.

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

Comprises papers relating to stock and equipment at Clifford Street Dispensary.

Includes meeting minutes of staff meetings, general correspondence files, files relating to publications, curator's research files, papers relating to the re-branding of the Art Gallery and papers relating to a theft from the Art Gallery.

Includes records relating to York Castle Museum

Day to day accounts of gaoler's activities at York Castle prison including attendance at quarter sessions, births in the prison, suicide attempts, disciplinary issues and punishments, arrivals and departures of prisoners including executions. From 1838 city felons were sent to the Castle prison, rather than the city prison.

Day to day account of activities of the prison Chaplain, including a list of duties, visiting individual prisoners (including before execution), morning prayers, basic religious instruction.

1. Aug 1833-Jan 1859
2. Feb 1859-Oct 1867

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).

The volumes contain indexes

1 1948-52
2 1952-57
3 1957-62
4 1962-65
5 1965-70

Comprises 20L, 10L, 5L and 2L fuel can measures; 2 boxes of pipettes; 56 LB weight; and 2 inspectors' scales (one labelled 'York' and one labelled 'Hull')

NOTE: ALL FUEL CAN MEASURES ARE LOCATED OFFSITE AND NEED TO BE ORDERED ONE WEEK IN ADVANCE.

Records relating to water pollution levels in York's waterways and drains.

At present this series only comprises Palatine Flood gauge sheets from 1935 to 1977.

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These volumes are indexed.

1 1836-48
2 1849-60
3 1860-72
4 1872-79
5 1879-86
6 1886-92
7 1892-98
8 1898-1904
9 1904-08
10 1908-15
.11 1915-21
12 1921-27
13 1927-32
14 1932-38
15 1938-43
16 1943-48
17 1948-52

This volume is part indexed
18 1953-56

These three volumes are indexed
19 1956-59
20 1959-62
21 1962-65

Papers concerning the provision of additional war-time nurseries in York.

These cards are later referred to as wages record sheets.

Wages books for members of staff of the council Welfare department, including Children's welfare, social welfare and general welfare volumes.

Wages books for temporary members of staff of the Streets and Buildings Department of the council.

Wages books for members of staff of the Streets and Buildings Department of the council.

Wages books for members of staff of the council Public Assistance team during the Second World War.

Wages books for members of staff of the council Park and Allotments department.

Wages books for members of staff of the council Housing and Parks department.

Wages books for members of staff of the council's Health Department.

General wages books for members of staff of the council.

Wages books for members of staff of the council Education Department. Reference numbers 20 and 21 were not used.

Wages books for members of staff of the council Education Committee.

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.

Bound committee minutes.

Returns and statistics recorded as part of an enquiry into a Typhoid Fever outbreak in York 1886

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

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

Files created by City of York Council related to town planning.

The Town Clerk's files relating to health and health services in York. Files comprise correspondence and associated papers. See also Y/HEA/1/3

Town Clerk's correspondence files concerning the Health Committee and matters of public health. Includes incoming and outgoing correspondence. See also Y/HEA/1/2

Development Plan 1951, report of the survey

Development Plan. Written Statement

Papers relating to the planning and opening of the York Municipal Aerodrome at Clifton. Includes maps, designs and compulsory purchase agreements.

Records of the Jospeph Rowntree Senior School

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

1. 1890-1896
2. 1896-1909

Bound copy of act

North Yorkshire County Structure Plans, various stages.

Contains records created by the Streets and Buildings Committee and its sub-committees in the course of their business.

These volumes contain indexes

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.

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

Includes petitions, dispute papers, deeds and property transactions.

Inclosure and dispute papers.

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

Dispute with Corporation papers concerning nomination of pasturemasters, and wardmotes courts post-1835. A map of each stray from 1772, by John Lund.

Includes petitions, dispute and judgment papers, a lease, pasturemaster accounts and inclosure papers.

Stores Committee minutes
1 1920-34
2 1935-55

Stores & Purchasing Committee minutes
3 1955-63
4 1963-73

Details recorded include surname and address of patient; obstetric history of mother; nature of confinement; condition of foetus; and age, work, and health of mother.

Comprises records relating to staffing matters (including appointments)within the York Health Department. See also Y/ADM/5/13 for application and appointment files.

Diaries of staff involved in deliveries and pickups of patients, food and other items. Also records some cases of insect control.

Account rolls for St Leonard's Hospital for years 1437-1438, 1457-1458 and 1540-1541. The 1457-1458 roll only survives as a fragment and the 1540-1541 roll is incomplete.

Account rolls for St Anthony's hospital for years 1592-1595, 1611-1614, 1617-1620.
Four account rolls belonging to one of the hospital (which exactly is unclear): One 1540, one fifteenth century and 2 undated.

Bound volumes of specifications for contracts to tender, arranged chronologically, and covering all forms of civic maintenance.

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Ad hoc reports by the Medical Officer of Health in response to particular events, primarily the outbreaks of infectious diseases.

1945 - 1953
1 1953 - 1957
2 1957 - 1962
3 1962 - 1966
4 1966 - 1968

Notebooks containing street names and house numbers

Smallholdings and Allotments Committee to 1922, Allotments Committee from 1922

1 1908-24
2 1924-49
3 1949-61

Comprises records relating to the oversight and licensing of slaughter houses and abattoirs.

Includes books for the following dates: 1478-9 and 1497

The volumes contain indexes

1 1888-94
2 1895-1910
3 1910-1914

Two bound copies of act

Bound copy of act

Bound copy of act

Includes civil defence publications, papers relating to wardens, ARP Emergency Committee agendas and minutes, Air Raid Precautions (ARP) correspondence, shelter files, instructions to civilians and papers regarding the welfare of citizens, fire service and fire prevention files, papers relating to the Women's Voluntary Service, papers regarding the billeting of workers, Ministry of Health files, papers regarding air raids and resultant war damage, papers regarding the Halifax bomber crash in York, staff registers, papers regarding training exercises, casualty lists, invasion committee papers, Operations Regional Comissioner correspondence, A.R.P Control Headquarters register of permits and papers relating to German chemical warfare explorations.

Comprises statistical information on the health of school children in York and reports on health services provided.

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.

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