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Pedigrees of various families, including some in the Yorkshire area. Please see item level descriptions for more detailed information about the contents of this sub-series. Copies available from archive staff (subject to Data Protection requirements).

Hungate - archaeological dig and development.

Commemoration of 238 Years in York.

The letters relate to pub names and terminology.

Friends of York Cemetery agendas for meetings and Wardens reports.

Supplement of photographs.

Includes meeting papers 2008-2010; FOYC News; leaflet on the herb garden; and City of York Council leaflet on 'Funding for Voluntary and Community Organisations 2002/4'.

Groves - general history of area.

York Cemetery Chapel Bell dedication order of proceedings.

Rowntree 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.

Volume 17.

Compiled by David Poole. Section OO.

Compiled by David Poole. Section NN.

Incomplete series.

Compiled by the City of York and District Family History Society, and revised by David Poole. Sections FF and GG.

Compiled by David Poole. Sections KK, LL and MM.

Compiled by the City of York and District Family History Society and Hugh Murray. Sections NW, AA, BB, CC and DD.

Supplement for Local Newspaper Week.

Correspondence regarding planning and legal issues relating to the Cemetery, as well as electricity supply and general enquiries.

Incomplete series.

Wardens Reports, as well as minutes and agendas.

Friends of York Cemetery agendas and meeting papers.

Special Edition also featuring four facsimiles of 1945 editions.

Wardens Reports, as well as minutes and agendas.

Dalton Terrace - funeral of Emily Houden, and letters from Hugh Murray to York Evening Press regarding naming Dalton Terrace.

Includes restoration history magazine cutting; York Cemetery Trust business plan 1994-1996; and guided walks list (undated); as well as maps for walks.

Papers regarding placing a register on a computer database.

Working papers, documents, letters and pedigrees for: Nickson; Noble; Noton and Noyes; Oates; Oloman; Oldfield and Oliver.

Handwritten notes regarding ground work and maintenance at York Cemetery.

Lawrence Street - founding of the Leprosy Hospital, referenced by Hugh Murray.

The records relate to the closure and reopening the pub, which was also known as the Ackhorne during its history.

Correspondence and invoices regarding 'This Garden of Death' by Hugh Murray.

Supplement of photographs.

Includes minutes and papers of meetings of the Friends of York Minster, as well as accounts and a letter to Hugh Murray thanking him for his service on the committee.

Two bundles of general correspondence.

Correspondence regarding Hugh Murray's book 'This garden of death'. Also includes despatch notes, publishers quotes and associated details.

Copy of a dissertation entitled 'The contemporary role of York Cemetery' by Robert M Tuke.

Includes cuttings on York from the air; the birth of Jorvik and the 60th anniversary of the Baedeker Raid.

Includes policy documents; education finding correspondence; press cuttings about public interest in cemeteries; Memorial Mason registration; Rymers press cuttings and notes on internment.

City of York Council planning application for the restoration of the Chapel, 1990 and Ronald G. Sims architect's drawing of the restoration of the cemetery gatehouse.

Handwritten and typed letters to and from Val Portas.

Two press cuttings.

Contains newspaper coverage of relevant stories.

Rowntree & Co souvenir.

Small colour clipping taken from a magazine showing a brick building with Dutch gable ends, possibly built c. 17th-18th centuries.

Guide to the colour printing of Yorkshire Evening Press (112 pages).

Includes York Cemetery Trust annual reports 1989-1998; meeting papers and cultural programme leaflets.

21 Copies of The York Citizen, including articles on the introduction of the Yorkcard, opening of the Barbican Leisure centre and Duchess of Kent received Freedom of the City of York.

History of Yorkshire Evening Press.

Opening of the New Yorkshire Evening Press building by Princess Alexandra.

Opening of the New Yorkshire Evening Press building by Princess Alexandra.

Two typed letters from Chessingham Estates (The White House, Bishopthorpe), signed Michael Hammill BSc ARICS, to S. Heppell Esq., 29 Broadway West, Fulford Road, enquiring about houses on the corner of Lawrence Street and Foss Island Road and the Ideal Laundry Site on Trinity Lane.

Wardens Reports, as well as minutes and agendas.

Also includes typed extracts from annual reports and additional correspondence.

General newspaper cuttings on 'York Past and Present'.

Includes education service leaflets; guided tour information 1997-1998; balance sheets 1993-2001 (incomplete set) and meeting papers (incomplete set).

Editions of the 'The Last Post' newsletter.

Grosvenor Terrace - details of an unexploded bomb.

Earlsborough Terrace - sale of the Abbey Guest House.

The building was later the Grand Opera House.
Format: Black and white print, 16 x 11
Provenance:

Close-up of arches and décor inside.
Format: Black and white print, 16 x 11
Provenance:

Book 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'.

Includes press cuttings on the restoration of York Minster.

Carr Lane (picture of the lane).

Published magazines about York, including editions of City Life.

Pictures of Radio York in Bootham Row.

History of the Yorkshire Evening Press, 1882-1982.

Leeman Road - tree demolition.

Haxby Road - removal of Rowntrees Cocoa sign.

Heslington - Tillmire Common dispute.

History of the Yorkshire Evening Press, 1882-1982.

Little Stonegate development issues.

Series of original and copy letters by Hugh Murray to the Deramore family and others, including the architect Francis Johnson and including geneaological details.

Dissertation on the development and decline of the adult school 1908-1981 by June M. Boaden.

Hanover Street - housing development.

Includes one file specifically on the Grand Opera House (previously the Electric Theatre) and one file of newspaper cuttings on other York venues.

Newspaper cuttings relating to people and characters, from local and national newspapers. Includes many obituary notices, cuttings with York or Yorkshire connections, and others of significance to Hugh's interests (e.g. Heraldry, or Colditz). Includes a mixture of recent people (e.g. Eric Gee) and historical (George Hudson).

Newspaper cuttings on York schools and their activities. Some cuttings are arranged by school.

Clarence Street cuttings, including Mrs Shaw planting a memorial tree.

Articles relating to people and characters, including obituaries, from local and national newspapers.