West Yorkshire Archive Service, Wakefield
- Advice on accessing these materials
- Web
- Telephone
- +44 (0)113 535 3040
- Address
- West Yorkshire History Centre, 127 Kirkgate, Wakefield, WF1 1JG, England, UK
- Opening Hours
- Opening times and further information: https://www.wyjs.org.uk/archive-service/contact-us-and-opening-times/west-yorkshire-history-centre-wakefield-archive-service-opening-times-and-information/
- Photographs Allowed
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- Archival and Other Holdings
The Wakefield collections include:
County wide collections of West Yorkshire and the West Riding County Council
collection, dating from 1889-1974
• West Riding Quarter Sessions, dating from the early 1600s, which were responsible
for county administration and judicial functions
• The impressive West Riding Registry of Deeds, dating from 1704 to 1970. The
registry holds nearly 7 million individual deeds contained within 12,000 volumes
spread across 14 million pages
• Signifi cant law and order collections including West Yorkshire Police forces, Petty
Session (Magistrates’) Courts and prisons including HMP Wakefi eld
• Local authority records of Wakefi eld Metropolitan District Council
• Administrative county collections of local businesses, charities, voluntary
organisations and private individuals
• Family and estate records, including those of the Winn family within the Nostell
Priory Collection
• Coroners’ records and hospital records, including Bradford Royal Infi rmary and
Halifax General
• Important mental health collections, including those for Stanley Royd, Menston
High Royds and Storthes Hall Hospitals
• Wakefield Diocesan records, including baptisms, marriages and burials
- ACKWORTH SCHOOL, RECORDS (C678)
- BRADFORD CITY POLICE, RECORDS (WYP/BR)
- CIVIL DEFENCE CORPS, RECORDS (C842)
- HORACE EDWIN HOLMES, MP FOR HEMSWORTH, NOTEBOOKS AND DIARIES (C795)
- LEEDS CITY POLICE, RECORDS (WYP/LE)
- NORMAN MELLOR, EMIGRANT TO AMERICA, CORRESPONDENCE AND PHOTOGRAPHS (C407)
- PONTEFRACT BOROUGH, RECORDS (WMT/PO)
- Stanley Royd Hospital, Wakefield (formerley the West Riding Pauper Lunatic Asylum), Records (C85))
- WAKEFIELD PRISON, RECORDS (C118)