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Information for visitors. Entry is free during the summer months WHITBY ARCHIVE HERITAGE CENTRE IS CLOSED FROM DECEMBER 13TH 2007 REOPEN MONDAY 4TH FEBRUARY 2008 Open APRIL - OCTOBER 11AM - 4PM (last entry 3.30) - MONDAY - FRIDAY NOVEMBER - MARCH 11AM - 3PM (last entry 2.30) MONDAY,TUESDAY & WEDNESDAYS ONLY Whitby Archive Heritage Centre is full of interesting facts and information, we have visitors from all over the world who thoroughly enjoy their visit. The staff are very dedicated and friendly, we hold the original whalebone arch pictured below. We are extremely grateful to the volunteers who helped lift and secure these huge and heavy jaw bones. They stand very proudly in front of a magnificant stained glass window. FREE ENTRY Whitby Archive Heritage Centre will be hosting a beginners guide to starting your Family Tree Research. Starter packs will be available to purchase. (further information on Family history can be found on contact us/research link on our website) WHITBY ARCHIVE HERITAGE CENTRE Local History Index. Top drawer Whitby water works 1928 November 1927 parish of Goathland/Egton 1938 – Eskdaleside /Ugglebarnby Whitby 1945 Egton estate parish of Lythe no date Whitby urban district 1937 Newholm cum Dunsley 1928 showing skelder & Aislaby Whitby water plans and sections November 1894 incl Egton parish of Lythe ,Eskdaleside Ugglebarnby & Grosmont Whitby water works – 1863-64-sleights moor, parish of Sneaton, 1853 map of Whitby, Ruswarp, Aislaby Newholm and Stainsacre Hawsker Sneaton 1894 map showing sleights Iburndale Sneaton Briggswath Ugglebarnby 1928 map showing Aislaby skelder selly hill 1928 map Sneaton rig mill wood Hawsker Whitby union workhouse showing Folly house , Horner’s terrace Whitby street map Whitehall map and dog lane 1955? Sneaton cp map Ellerby , barnby cp mickleby map – no date Detailed Whitby map no date showing streets including Flowergate silver street area Map showing west cliff saloon and crescent terrace and west cliff no date 1891 map showing st mary’s church – church lane, new way ghaunt, Wesley chapel and many more Whitby streets Whitby street map showing falcon terrace george street no date Map possibly 1938 showing bell shoals, spital buildings dry dock Map showing bagdale and spring hill Map showing tate hill Wesley chapel Map showing folly house Map showing gallows close 1893? Map showing Glaisdale moor, Egton high moor Rosedale moor Map showing crescent place, school boys and girls, congregational chapel, Wellington terrace…1893 Map showing fish pier, baths & library & museum coffee house end 1893 The Whitby and Pickering branch of the north eastern railway Map showing Egton, Egton bridge Hutton Mulgrave, Grosmont Map showing Hudson street , George street Normanby terrace abbey terrace 1891 Map showing Whitby town station Map showing police station & courthouse temperance hall, Springhill house, Bagdale hall Map showing part of west cliff Map 1891 showing meadow field Map showing graving dock, old gas works, Whitby union workhouse, st Patrick’s school, Esk Brewery, ivy yard 1893 Map of 1893 Whitehall Map of 1893 showing engine shed, & Gray Street Map showing St Annes Staith, Whitby bridge-part of Flowergate Map showing Boulby bank Map showing yards, friends meeting house market place tin ghaut Map showing spital bridge and dry dock Map showing well close square and surrounding streets Map of 1891 showing Whitehall dockyard and dry dock Map showing scotch head and pier house Map showing St Ninians church, new quay road Map showing walker terrace st Hilda’s terrace Map showing Whitby harbour 1967 Plans for midland bank Map of Glaisdale end with field names 1865 Map of Ugthorpe Lythe Lealholm Rigg 1853 Drawer 2 Thompsons hotel Whitby plans 1869 x 2 Whitby map 1828 – union mill, collier hope, scotch head battery… Whitby map 1740 map of east Yorkshire 1909, shipyards, c1780-1812 Whitby and area Map of Whitby and streets no date Whitby urban district 1937 x 8 showing boundary and field sizes 1890 showing map of north riding 1928 map of Larpool, Stainsacre, Isolation hospital, Whitby cemetery Cock Mill Wood Whitby rural district council 1958 of Newholm Whitby rural district council 1959 of Egton Thompsons hotel plans x 2 Unknown house plan x 2 Whitby museum plans 1966 1928 map of Girrick, Liverton, Breckons wood Drawer 3 IMPROVEMENTS TO BOLTONS BUILDINGS FLOWERGATE Engraving 1847 first church school Whitby railway bridge from the lime kilns, north west view of St Matthews church at Grosmont 1840, map of ecclesiastical district of St Matthews church 1851 Lythe parish, Pickering parish, and Whitby parish. Traces and plans of fern cottage Glaisdale x3 St Hilda’s priory extension –approx 12 sheets Ordinance survey map board of agriculture showing Westerdale, Egton, Pickering, Helmsley Fryup. 1904? Scrolled up various Whitby maps Map of Danby, Westerdale,Glaisdale,Lealholm, Liverton moor, Girrick, 1853 Plan proposed of land layout on Larpool estate 25/4/35 scrolled up Plan of layout of land west cliff Whitby feb 1926 scrolled up Whitby urban district council proposed development of the low Stakesby estate1967 Plan of properties at Whitby prospect hill farm scar & Whitby breweries ltd Whitehall shipyard olive buildings spital bridge and dry dock Scar & Whitby division 1928 upper harbour, stoup cross airy hill and west cliff Drawer 4 Scarborough borough local plan draft may 1994 village insets West cliff of Whitby including Ruswarp no date Map showing Allerston high moor Lockton and Sneaton high moor Map of Eskdaleside 1892 Ordinance survey map of barnby Lythe and mickleby Ordinance survey map of Newton Mulgrave Ugthorpe Roxby Ordinance survey map of Glaisdale Lealholm Ordinance Aislably Sleights Eskdaleside cum Ugglebarnby Sneaton Ruswarp Map of Whitby West Cliff, abbey, cemetery, viaduct Map of Whitby 1927 showing Stainsacre Shawn Riggs cock mill Map of Danby high moor 1913 fairy cross plain little fryup Plan of freehold building ground Yorkshire Whitby 1853 Ordinance survey map 1954 of Guisborough Skelton ,Commondale and Upleatham, Stanghow Ordinance survey map 1954 of Bilsdale, Laskill, Hawnby Ordinance survey map 1954 of Lockton Levisham Pickering parish Hawsker Stainsacre Fylingdales and Goathland. Whitby Wirral of Cheshire 1610 Ordinance survey map of Egton low moor Grosmont Dunsley Scrolled up map of Whitby in small letters named streets and places Scrolled up map of Whitby harbour 1932 donated by Mr David Hobson 31.aug 2003 Scrolled up Whitby ordinance survey map of 1919 Map of Whitby no date Yorkshire potash ltd winning and working of potash Ordinance survey map of York Selby and Castleford 1960 colour Whitby scar & district maps 1862 Colour map of Malta & Gozo Resolution wind vane repair photos Ugthorpe freehold farm low lease farm or small wood Plan of freehold building land at Ravenscar 1918 donated by Mr G Estill 19.10.04 Drawer 5 Old Whitby gazette cuttings from 1914 1918 1930 the esk floods The Rohilla Whitby gazette 1904 Egton patriots Whitby in 1854 Whitby civic trust society 1971 includes b/w photographs Fyling old hall plans Drawer 6 Whitby map 1938 showing spring hill newholm stakesby Pier restaurant and hotel Whitby plans 1949 Meadow fields 1981 Residence brook park sleights 1960 plans Proposed bungalow Upgang lane 1949 The plough inn Baxtergate plans 1960 Mount pleasant Robin Hoods bay plans The station hotel Castleton plans 1948 Pykes sports shop plans 1984 The old shoulder of mutton inn selly hill 1956 x 3 Sneaton hall hotel 1948 plans Proposed alterations to cliffe cottage Robin Hoods Bay Lyndale cottage Fylingthorpe Dean hall Sneaton 1959 plans Alterations to 4 hope terrace Whitby & letters Bungalow robin hoods bay 1961 scrolled up Whitby urban district council housing scheme 1937 Drawer 7 Site plan of 28 Bagdale Proposed bungalow at Ruswarp Proposed improvements the fleece inn church street The Wellington hotel improvements 1951-1960 Whitby golf course drying room Property on Baxtergate plans comprising of new showrooms Clifton mount pleasant robin hoods bay 1959 Fairhaven sleights Bungalow Newholm 1960 1938 map showing spring hill Sneaton castle Mayfield nurseries, station Newholm duck hill criff lane Drawer 8 Urban district council chimney for proposed refuse salvage and disposal plant Masonic yearbook 1998-99 Urban district of Whitby disposal plant Cholmley school conversion to boat house and club premises Whitby urban district council proposed shelter and lavatory near lifeboat house Proposed refuse drawings Drawer 9 Proposed alteration to no 4 Goathland Proposed bungalow at Darnholm Goathland Drawer 10 Proposed detached house at robin hoods bay Proposed alterations to shop jubilee terrace Staithes and co op Proposed agricultural dwelling partridge hill farm fylinghall robin hoods bay Scrolled up loose proposed basin and jetty for Whitby urban district council Donated by Geoff Vasey 1841 various photocopy maps Framed old map of Yorkshire 1610? Framed the graveyard of the Atlantic wrecks, The Whitby cottage hospital in a glass display Sketch of the housing layout at the ropery Glass framed the commercial reading room Whitby donated by Mr E Perry 1988 ORDNANCE SURVEY MAP OF THE NORTH EAST COAST X 2 ORDNANCE SURVEY MAP OF SCARBOROUGH X 2 ORDNANCE SURVEY MAP OF MARKET WEIGHTON ORDNANCE SURVEY MAP OF LEEDS & BRADFORD X 2 ORDNANACE SURVEY MAP OF PICKERING ORDNANCE SURVEY MAP OF ALNWICK ORDNANCE SURVEY MAP OF NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE ORDNANCE SURVEY MAP OF BERWICK UPON TWEED ORDNANCE SURVEY MAP OF RIBBLESDALE ADMIRALTY SURVEY 1891-1901 FLAMBOROUGH HEAD TO HARTLEPOOL MAP OF FEVER HOSPITAL STAINSCARE 1913 1930 EDITION MAP OF HAWSKER STAINSACRE NEWHOLM DUNSLEY WHITBY AISLABY 1919 EDITION MAP OF HAWSKER STAINSACRE NEWHOLM DUNSLEY WHITBY AISLABY
We hold the following resources . The material held in the boxes are some original, photocopies and information taken from the Whitby Gazette. Box 1 Newspapers and periodicals (7 boxes - 2 folders) Box 2 Phone directories and other directories Box 3 Tourist Guides and information (8 boxes) Box 4 Poster and handbills (2 boxes) Box 5 Maps, plans etc (11 boxes) (dating from 18th century to 20th century No O.S. maps) Box 6 Deeds and legal documents including Licences (2 boxes) Box 7 Links and twinning with other towns & cities. Box 8 Borough Council agendas etc (8 boxes) Box 9 Local services- hospital, police etc.(2 boxes 1 separate folder) Box 10 Clubs and organisations (9 boxes 2 folders) Box 11 Abbey & churches (4 boxes, 11 folders) Box 12 Schools and education (2 boxes 3 folders) Box 13 Visit of Royalty and V.I.P. to area. Box 14 Sport (inc. Whitby Town F.C.) (6 boxes - 2 folders) Box 15 T.V. Radio & film including programmes made in the area. Box 16 Crafts Box 17 Fairs Shows and Exhibitions (2 Boxes) Box 18 Celebrations, Carnivals and festivals, Xmas & fund raising events. (3 Boxes) Box 19 Spa, Entertainment, cinema and Theatres (4 boxes, 1 folder, 1 plastic holder)) Box 20 Whitby amateur dramatic society (3 boxes, 1 folder) Box 21 Regatta (2 Boxes, 2 folders) Box 22 Transport (inc. N.Y.M.R.) (8 folders, 3 plastic holders) Box 23 Sea Beach Wrecks, Pier Rohilla/Streonshalh, Harbour & Marina (7 boxes, 3 folders, 1 plastic holder) Box 24 Lifeboat Coastguards Customs & Excise smuggling (3 boxes) Box 25 Shops business and professions (8 boxes, 3 folders) Box 26 Weather floods storms fires disaster and accidents (1 box, 1 album) Box 27 Wartime (4 boxes, 7 folders, 4 albums) Box 28 Army Navy airforce peace time links Box 29 Traditions folklore legends customs (1 box) Box 30 Places not in Whitby Box 31 Shipping industry ships and fishing boats ( 8 boxes, 3 folders) Box 32 Other industries (5 boxes, 1 yellow folder on potash) Box 33 Architecture, Archaeology, stones and crosses (1 box, 1 yellow folder, 1 black folder) Box 34 Local natural history , pets geology fossils geography Box 35 Agriculture Box 36 Aerial and general views ( 2 boxes, 3 folders) Box 37 Whitby west and East sides ( 8 boxes) Box 38 Villages ( 9 boxes, 2 folders) Box 39 Bridges (2 boxes) Box 40 Photo’s unnamed (birds & flowers etc) Box 41 Parks Gardens Nursery and prize gardens Box 42 Dracula Box 43 Yards Box 44 Births marriages deaths anniversaries cards names (2 boxes) Box 45 Town criers and bell men Box 46 Local people previous and present day ( 3 boxes, 1 folder) No Box 47 Box 48 Captain Cook (5 boxes) Box 49 North Yorkshire Moors (1 Box, 2 folders) Box 50 Home life costume and fashion Box 51 Presentations awards competitions prizes and official openings Box 52 Construction demolition repairs and improvements Box 53 Waterfalls, Mills , Wells, and Windmills Box 54 Banks and building societies coins and tokens Box 55 Writers artists and photographers (4 boxes,1 folder, 2 plastic holders) Box 56 Whitby general history (1 box, 1 folder) Box 57 The Wooley Collection - Sandsend and local area. ————————————— Research Notes
RESEARCH Procedure and fees We regret that our extensive private collection is only accessible by our own staff and unlike Government archives we are not able to allow you to carry out your own research. All local history research is carried out by post- please complete the following form with the relevant fee enclosed (we return all money paid if no information is found )
Please note:- ALL research must be paid for in advance. —————————————————————————————— FEES RESEARCH. A charge of £5.00 per hour applies POSTAGE/PACKING is usually free though we reserve the right to make a charge in circumstances where an extra cost is involved. Simply fill out the form below and despatch it to us with the appropriate fee Thank you.
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