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Comprises house inspection records for Bilton Street, Duke of York Street, Cross Court, Hallfield Road (no. 15 only)and Redeness Street (no. 56 only). Records include house inspection sheets; notifications of drain inspections; correspondence; recommended works and notices to execute works; and small scale-plans for some properties.

Includes plans of the improvement area; schedules of required works; Bye-Law for preventing overcrowding; summaries of area (including houses to be demolished and level of overcrowding); correspondence; reports to the Unhealthy Areas Sub-Committees; summaries of overcrowded houses (including size of bedrooms and numbers of occupants); letters to establish owners; Layerthorpe Clearance Area: reports of the Medical Officer of Health and the Chief Sanitary Inspector used at an Enquiry [8-9 Mar 1932}]; papers concerning various properties in Layerthorpe and Bilton Street belonging to one owner; also draft summaries and notes/

Renamed Youth Employment Sub-Commttee from 1949.

Records of the Joseph Rowntree Modern School

Promotional brochure detailing the history of York Mansion House. Created for commerical purposes, advertising York Mansion House as a venue for occasions and events. Also contains images.

Brochure detailing the history of York Mansion House. Also contains images

Form of instruction from the Medical Officer of Health to the Inspector of Nuisances to visit and report on sanitary conditions of dwellings. Details recorded in the reports varies over time but typically includes name of infected person, age, occupation, disease and various details about their living conditions.
Note: not all volumes are indexed. See also Y/HEA/4

Records of cases and sources of infection and transmissions.

Incidence graphs

Papers relating to the administration and application of the Infectious Diseases Acts, 1890 and 1889.

Comprises records of the Health Department and Town Clerk relating to housing clearances and improvements in York. Includes overcrowding surveys; surveys of underground room; registers of Housing Inspectors' reports and register of unfit houses; general administrative papers relating to clearances and improvements; clearances papers (many of which include plans); improvement papers; house inspection records; clearance photographs; and papers relating to the improvement of rental properties.

Comprises files relating to the building and maintenance of council housing, particularly in the post-World War II period. Files consist primarily of correspondence and associated papers. .

Bound committee minutes

Draft reports of inspections carried out by the Health Department. Reports include name/s of owners/occupiers and condition of houses. Some reports include plans and/or measurements.

House inspection records for the Nunnery Lane Area. Include records for the following streets: Nunnery Lane; Cygnet Street; Dove Street; Caroline Street; Drake Street; and Spencer Street. Includes small, scale plans of properties.

At present this series only comprises papers regarding the Honorary Freedom bestowed on T C Benfield.

Some volumes are indexed.

Comprises records relating to promotional events and health exhibitions

Comprises stand alone images relating to health education and health promotion. Includes lantern slides, glass plate negatives and photographs.

Comprises printed leaflets and other promotional literature relating to public health educations.

Bound committee minutes

Comprises correspondence and associated papers of the Health Committee. An alphabetical index to the files is included in first box. Files have been weeded prior to deposit in the archive.

Comprises files on enquiry into permanent caravan sites for gypsies. Also includes files with details of past temporary caravan sites in York.

Comprises statistical graphs.

Records relating to the licensing and regulation of ice-cream sales.

At present this series only contains one offer letter for a council house, dated 1927. Please see item-level descriptions for more detailed information.

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

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

These volumes contain indexes.

6.1 1836-38
6.2 1838-64
6.3 1864-71

Full version of the Electoral rolls. Contains all voters names and addresses.

See access provisions below.

Includes index.

1. 1888-1898
2. 1898-1917
3. 1917-1948

Comprises notifications and regulations relating to import and export of food.

Comprises correspondence and associated papers

These volumes contain indexes.

1 1836-47
2 1847-57
3 1857-68
4 1868-77
5 1877-84
6 1884-87
7 1887-90
8 1890-94
9 1894-97
10 1897-1900
11 1900-02
12 1902-05
13 1905-06
14 1906-08
15 1908-10
16 1910-13
17 1913-17
18 1917-21
19 1921-25
20 1925-31

These volumes contain indexes.

21 1931-36
22 1936-41
23 1941-46
24 1946-49
25 1949-52
26 1952-54
27 1954-57
28 1957-60
29 1960-62
30 1962-64
31 1964-66
32 1966-68
33 1968-71

34. 1971-74

Finance and General Purposes Hospitality sub-committee minute book
10a 1957-1966

Finance and General Purposes Mansion House sub-committee minute book
10b 1966-1973

Comprises papers relating to the erection of and provision of accommodation at the Fever Hospital at Yearsley Bridge.

Comprises papers relating to the testing and regulation of fertilisers and feeding stuffs.

Includes drainage papers, matron's reports, and correspondence files.

1 1884-89
2 1889-94
3 1894-1905
4 1905-13
5 1913-23
6 1923-1930
7 1930-40
8 1940-49
9 1949-53
10 1953-57
11 1957-63
12 1963-74

1 1962-64
2 1964-74

These volumes contain indexes

Emergency Feeding Committee
1941-46
Civic Restaurant Committee
1946-51

Papers concerning the provision of food in an emergency and communal feeding provisions, including British Restaurants.

Volumes 2, 4-8 contain indexes. For committee name changes see linked authority files,

1. 1897
2. 1897-1907
3. 1907-15
4. 1915-21
5. 1921-27
6. 1927-36
7. 1936-46
8. 1946-48

Parochial, municipal and parliamentary registers of electors. Depending on the extent of the franchise at different periods, these may be found in seperate volumes or combined together. Registers up to and including 2006 are on open shelves in the Archives reading room and do not need to be ordered: Y/COU/6/1, Y/COU/6/2, Y/COU/6/3, Y/COU/6/4. The current electoral roll is found in series Y/COU/6/5 and Y/COU/6/6 and do need to be requested. Different access regulations appy to the edited and full versions, staff will be able to advise on which you should order.

Includes Ordnance Survey maps of York and neighbouring areas, some with locations of schools marked on. Also includes 'Geographia' maps with schools marked on and OS maps showing different wards in and around York.

Contains official publications and communications issued by City of York Education Committee

Minutes, agendas and papers of the City of York Council Education Committee

Edited/open version of the electoral roll. This is the version that may be bought from the council and used for marketing. If you would like your details removed from this version please contact Electoral Services at the City of York Council.

Local Board of Health reports and information on the construction of drains in York,

Additional minute volumes not forming part of main series of house books.

A (1719-1728)
B (1728-1743)
C (1743-1763)
D (1763-1784)
E (1784-1802)
F (1802-1816)
G (1816-1827)

Draft minute books, some containing minutes of Quarter Sessions

H (1659-1666)
I (1668-1673)
K (1675-1680)
L (1680-1685)
M (1685-1692)
N (1711-1714)
O (1714-1719)

Correspondence, circulars and associated papers relating to outbreaks of animal diseases.

Papers relating to the Local Government Board enquiry carried out by Dr Ballard into deaths from diarrhoea in 1880. The papers include notes, statistics, summary reports and reports of individual cases in York.

Volumes 92.1, 92.2, 92.4, 92.5 and 92.6 are indexed. Volume 92.3 is not.

Files created by City of York Council related to development in York

Seals which have become detached from the city charters (see Y/ADM/1/1), and seal impressions.

This series of conveyances includes a number issued by the Corporation of York and others issued by third parties, relating to land and premises in the City of York area. Also includes property files such as commercial conveyances, purchases/acquisitions, title enquiries, commercial/business leases, deeds and title documents for various lands owned by City of York Council.

Comprises records relating to the registration and oversight of cowsheds, dairies and cowkeepers in York.

Documents relating to the Curriers Guild

These 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.

Comprises files concerning the presence of Gypsies at the York Racecourse Ebor Festival. The files are primarily concerned with the establishment of temporary sites for gypsies for the duration of the festival.

Comprises correspondence relating to the bacteriological testing of milk samples

Comprises correspondence files concerning the investigation and measurement of air pollution.

Contracts for maintenance work in council buildings. Includes plans and correspondence where appropriate.

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Includes the minutes for 1946-53 and 1956-68 only.

Constitution of City of York Council explaining the structure and workings of City of York Council, including all the rules and procedures under which the Council operates. It sets out who makes decisions and how they are made, and the rights of citizens to obtain information and to influence decisions.

Files created by City of York Council related to conservation of buildings and areas.

Comprises records relating to the inspection and oversight of common lodging houses.

These volumes contain indexes.

Known as Commercial Development Committee between 1907-1909

1. 1907-1928
2. 1929-1944

Renamed Civil Defence Committee from 1950. These volumes contain indexes.

1 1943-59
2 1960-72

Includes photographs of various structures and monuments in York. The monuments are individually listed.

Includes papers relating to the bestowing of the honorary Freedom of the City on various individuals, as well as the organisation of First World War peace celebrations, and visits by foreign dignitories.

Reports related to maintenance and restoriation of City of York council owned properties.

Final Report, volumes one and two.

Third triennial report of the work of the City of York School Board

Records relating to City of York School Board

Published reports and plans for the Ouse and Foss Navigation Company. See Y/ENV/1/5 for more papers regarding the company.

Bound copy of act

Bound copy of act

All four volumes are indexed.

Records relating to oversight of child and infant welfare

Copies of printed committee resolutions and proceedings, and minutes and reports of York Council. These copies were compile by the Chief Public Health Inspector and include annotations next to items that relate to public health.

Printed copies of user and consumer safety advice from government departments for recommended safe use of chemicals in Great Britain.

Royal charters and letters patent granted to the mayor and commonality of the city, inhabitants and gilds. Eleven are damaged and unidentified.

1 (c.1155)
2 (1189)
3 (1256)
4 (1256)
5 (1283)
6 (1312)
7 (1327)
8 (1376)
9 (1382)
10 (1407)
11 (1407)
12 (1414)
13 (1423)
14 (1430)
15 (1431)
16 (1436)
17 (1438)
18 (1440)
19 (1447)
20 (1449)
21 (1456)
22 (1458)
23 (1459)
24 (1459)
25 (1462)
26 (1464)
27 (1485)
28 (1514)
29 (1519)
30 (1524)
31 (1527)
32 (1545)
33 (1547)
34 (1554)
35 (1554)
36 (1556)
37 (1560)
38 (1563)
39 (1570)
40 (1576)
41 (1579)
42 (1588)
43 (1610)
44 (1620)
45 (1630)
46 (1665)
47 (1668)
48 (1670)
49 (1670)
50 (1682)
51 (1683)
52 (1684)
53 (1685)
54 (1773)
55 (1794)
56 (1808)
57 (1830)
58 (1836)
59 (1836)
59A (1837)
60 (1860)

The chamberlain's vouchers are the original tradesmen receipts, bills or invoices. The often contain greater detail of work done than the formal accounts and rolls.

1719-1722
1723-1724
1725-1728
1729-1730
1731-1733
1733-1736
1737-1739
1739
1740-1741
1741-1742, 1744-1745
1744-1745, 1746-1747
1748-1750
1750-1751, 1753-1754, 1754-1755
1756-1757, 1758-1759
1760-1761
1761-1764
1765-1766, 1766-1767
1767-1770
1769-1770, 1772-1773
1773-1776
1776-1782
1784-1785, 1787-1788
1789, 1792-1793, 1795
1796-1797, 1798
1799-1801
1804-1808, 1810
1811, 1814, 1818
1820-1822
1824-1826
1828-1829
1832-1834
1834-1835

The rolls were the formal audited version of the corporation accounts. Incomplete series.

The account books were the informal day to day version of the corporation accounts. Incomplete series.

1 (1446)
1A (1449 and 1480)
2 (1520-1525)
3 (1526-1528, 1535, 1538)
4 (1542, 1554)
5 (1559, 1565, 1584)
6 (1585, 1587, 1588)
7 (1591, 1593)
8 (1594, 1596)
9 (1597-1598)
10 (1599, 1600)
11 (1602-1603)
12 (1605-1606)
13 (1607-1608, 1610)
14 (1611-1613)
15 (1614-1616)
16 (1617-1619)
17 (1620, 1621, 1623)
18 (1624)
19 (1625-1627)
20 (1629-1632)
21 (1633-1636)
22 (1637-1639)
23 (1640-1645)
24 (1646-1651)
25 (1653-1654, 1656, 1658, 1661, 1663, 1664-1665)
25A (1655)
26 (1666, 1668, 1671-1672, 1679)
27 (1680, 1682, 1683, 1684, 1686, 1687)
28 (1688, 1692, 1693, 1694, 1695, 1696)
29 (1697-1702)
30 (1703-1709)
31 (1710-1714)
32 (1715-1721)
33 (1722-1728)
34 (1729-1733)
35 (1734-1738)
36 (1734-1738)
37 (1744-1748)
38 (1749-1751, 1753-1754)
39 (1755-1759)
40 (1760)
41 (1761)
42 (1762)
43 (1763)
44 (1764)
45 (1765)
46 (1766)
47 (1767)
48 (1768)
49 (1769)
50 (1770)
51 (1771)
52 (1772)
53 (1773)
54 (1774)
55 (1775)
56 (1776)
57 (1777)
58 (1778)
59 (1779)
60 (1780)
61 (1781)
62 (1782)
63 (1783)
64 (1784)
65 (1785)
66 (1786)
67 (1787)
68 (1788)
69 (1789)
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71 (1791)
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80 (1800)
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86 (1806)
87 (1807)
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90 (1810)
91 (1811)
92 (1812)
93 (1813)
94 (1814)
95 (1815)
96 (1816)