Filey Urban District Council Records

Records including Urban District Council minutes 1897-1974; reports referred to in minutes 1956-1974; Finance committee minutes 1895-1936; Arrears and Audit sub-committee minutes 1931-1936; Fire Brigade committee minutes 1897-1936; General Purposes committee minutes 1925-1935; Grants to lodging house keepers minutes 1915-1919; Improvements committee minutes 1900-1925; Licensing committee minutes 1929-1930; Planning committee minutes 1898-1914; Plans and General Purposes committee minutes 1935-1936; Profiteering committee minutes 1920-1927; Rating and Valuation committee minutes 1926-1936; Review of county districts minutes 1934-1950; Special Committee minutes (proposed construction of pier) 1924; Primrose Valley sub-committee minutes 1935; Highways (and Allotments) committee minutes 1900-1917; Pleasure Grounds Crescent minutes and accounts 1854; Pleasure Grounds and Allotments committee minutes 1924-1936; Crescent Gardens committee minutes 1918; Southdene Pavilion sub-committee minutes 1935; Water and gas sub-committee minutes 1900-1932, and management committee minutes 1886-1936; Gasworks sub-committee (coke) minutes 1933-1936

Gas Company register of shareholders 1853; register of transfers 1858; Gas and Water register of shareholders 1892-1898

Water Company: Act 1847, records 1854-1866; rates and water ledger 1950-1961; water charges and rentals 1949-1962

Allotment agreements and rentals 1924-1960

Mortuary register 1940-1946

Planning Department: Street lamps survey; Emergency plan for Scarborough, Whitby and Filey; planning application plans and papers c1928-1976; plan register 1927-1959; register of contracts 1945-1958; street lighting specification 1966; development plans, planning applications and papers

Housing Department: Register of dwelling houses (decontrolled) 1933; Register of houses in clearance areas 1935; Tenants' register c1958; House numbering books 1935-1973; Housing rentals 1944-1969

Wartime emergency: Civil defence nominal roll of members 1940-1945; register of bedding: evacuation 1941-1942; billeting records; record of war-damaged buildings 1939-1940; Evacuation sub-committee minutes 1945

Rate books 1914, 1934-1963; Valuations 1929-1955; Scarborough Union valuation list 1927

Financial statements 1911-1940; Treasurer's accounts 1935-1938; Abstracts of accounts 1937-1970

Councillors: declarations of acceptance of office 1895-1977; motion book 1936-1966; attendance books 1938-1970

Meteorological charts c1965

Guides, illustrated almanacks and diaries 1908-2002

Filey Local Board: minute books 1868-1897; byelaws

Highways accounts 1868-1875

Filey Local Board was established in 1868. It gave way in 1895 to Filey Urban District Council which existed until local government reorganisation in 1974.