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Z C - Chester City Council - 12th century - 21st century

AB - Civic Miscellanea

C - Chester City boundaries - 1820-1972

CC - Chester City leases,agreements and related papers (D series)

E - Chester City title deeds and related papers - 17th - 20th centuries

1 - Conveyances (former Chester City 'C' series)

83C - Papers relating to land at Crane Bank

84C - Papers relating to land at Claremont Walk

85C - Papers relating to land at Union Street

86C - Papers relating to land at Union Street

87C - Papers relating to land at Frodsham Street

89C - Papers relating to land at Love Street

90C - Papers relating to land adjoining the Public Baths, Union Street

91C - Papers relating to the Fire Station, Northgate Street and Valentine's Court

92C - Papers relating to land at Tramway Street

94C - Papers relating to land at Grosvenor Road

95C - Papers relating to land near Hamilton Place (Shaw's Smithy)

96C - Papers relating to land in Union Street - 1903

97C - Papers relating to land at Queen's Park View [formerly Bottoms Lane]

98C - Papers relating to land fronting Queen's Park View [formerly Bottom's Lane] - 1904

99C - Papers relating to land at Garden Lane

100C - Papers relating to land at the junction of Love Street and Foregate Street

101C - Papers relating to land at Bath Street

102C - Papers relating to land at Frodsham Street

103C - Papers relating to land at Frodsham Street

104C - Papers relating to land at Lache Lane

105C - Papers relating to 12 and 14 Christleton Road and 1 Mount Place

111C - Chester Teachers' Centre [formerly George Street Council School]

129 - Papers relating to Bishop Graham Memorial School, Princess Street, Chester - 1721 - 1958

133C - Victoria Road Junior and Infant School - 1867 - 1910

179C - Papers relating to 45 Frodsham Street, Chester - 1739-1915

182 - Papers relating to Grosvenor Museum, Grosvenor Street, Chester - 1858 - 1916

183C - Papers relating to the Grosvenor Museum and adjacent property - 1858 - 1916

1 - Abstract, 1836-1858, of certain Acts of Parliament relating to the Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England - 1858

2 - Abstract, 1846-1853, of certain Orders in Council relating to the Chester Chapter commuted estates - 1858

3 - Conveyance from the Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England to Thomas Williams, plumber and glazier, of a piece of land containing 212 sq. yds. in the parish of St. Mary on the Hill, forming part of the Chester Bailiwick Estate, subject to a right of road 4 feet in width to the house of Matthew Harrison adjoining - 5 July 1860

4 - Conveyance from Thomas Williams, plumber and glazier, to John Williams, esq., of land as in ZC182C/3 - 8 Aug 1860

5 - Abstract of conveyance as in ZC182C/3 - 1860

6-7 - Deed of exchange between Matthew Harrison, gentleman and Ormus Biddulph, esq., relating to the right of road as in ZC182C/3 and a strip of land forming part of the 212 sq. yds., 4 feet in width, to provide a new right of road to the house of Matthew Harrison - 4 Dec 1872

8 - Conveyance from Ormus Biddulph, esq., to William Speed of Grosvenor Street, photographer, of land containing 157 sq. yds., formerly part of the Chester Bailiwick Estate and part of land as in ZC182C/3. Plan - 10 March 1873

9 - Conveyance from William Speed of Grosvenor Street, photographer 'a Bachelor', to Alexander Lamont, cabinet maker and Giles Richard Griffith, printer, of land as in ZC182C/8, with the wooden erection or building thereon then used as a photographic studio - 16 Dec 1882

10 - Conditions of sale between Matthew Harrison, gentleman and Thomas Vernon Royle, gentleman and the Very Rev. John Saul Howson, D.D., dean of Chester - 29 Oct 1883

11 - Conveyance - 31 Dec 1883

12 - Abstract of title, 1863-1883, of Matthew Harrison and his mortgagee to 26 Castle Street with the tenement, yard and premises adjoining. Plans; Annexed: Note of endorsement of 1884 on 1863 conveyance - 1883

13 - Conveyance from Thomas Vernon Royle, gentleman, and Matthew Harrison, gentleman, to the Very Rev. John Saul Howson, D.D., dean of Chester, of land and property as in ZC182C/10. Plan - 25 Jan 1884

14 - Memorandum of agreement between Thomas Vernon Royle, Matthew Harrison and the Very Rev. John Saul Dowson, D.D., dean of Chester as to right of way relating to ZC182C/13 - 25 Jan 1884

15 - Abstract of title, 1874, of Hugh Lupus, duke of Westminster, K.G., to property in Bunce Street - 1884

16 - Conveyance from John Meols Nicholson, gentleman, and Alexander Lamont of Eastgate Street, cabinet manufacturer to Hugh Lupus duke of Westminster, K.G. and others named, the trustees of the Chester Museum of Natural History and Archaeology and of the Schools of Science and Art, of 26 Castle Street - 29 Dec 1894

17 - Mortgage from Hugh Lupus, duke of Westminster, K.G., and others named, trustees as in ZC182C/16, to John Meols Nicholson, gentleman and James Parry, formerly of Trinity Hall, Cambridge, medical student but presently of Vicars Cross, gentleman, of property as in ZC182C/16 - 31 Dec 1894

18 - Abstract of title, 1877-1889, of the representatives of Matthew Harrison, deceased, and his mortgagee to property as in ZC182C/16 - 1894

19 - Supplemental abstract of title, 1889-1894, of the representatives of Matthew Harrison, deceased, and his mortgagee to property as in ZC182C/16 - 1894

20 - Abstract of title, 1877-1897, of Greenall Whitley and Co. Ltd., to property in Chester including 33 and 35 Grosvenor Road. Plan - 1900

21 - Conveyance from Greenall Whitley and Co. Ltd. of Wilderspool, Warrington, to Henry Stolterfoth, M.D., and the Rev. Arthur Henry Fish, clerk in holy orders, of 33 and 35 Grosvenor Street, adjoining the Grosvenor Museum. Plan - 6 May 1901

22 - Mortgage from Henry Stolterfoth, M.D. and the Rev. Arthur Henry Fish, clerk in holy orders, to William Huxley, vine and spirit merchant and the Rev. John Huxley of Southwell, co. Notts., clerk in holy orders, of property as in ZC182C/21 - 7 May 1901

23 - Letter from Cecil Parker, agent of the duke of Westminster, to J. Goodie Holmes relating to the conditions of the easement over property belonging to the committee of management of the Grosvenor Museum - 26 Aug 1904

24 - Schedule of deeds and writings relating to the Grosvenor Museum and note of receipt from Jolliffe and Jolliffe, solicitors - 8 Sep 1904

25 - Transfer of mortgage from James Parry, gentleman, to Frederick John Warmsley, chartered accountant, and Albert Parry of Marine Terrace, Colwyn Bay, gentleman, relating to property as in ZC182C/21 - 1 June 1995

26 - Conveyance from the Rev. Arthur Henry Fish, clerk in holy orders, as agent of the committee of management of the Grosvenor Museum, to Sir Horatio Lloyd, Knight, formerly a judge of county courts, recorder, of property as in ZC182C/21 - 10 June 1908

27 - Draft agreement with emendations between Chester Corporation and Sir Horatio Lloyd, Knight, and Thomas Shepheard of Kingsley, Bournemouth, gentleman, relating to the management of the Cecil Raikes Scholarships - 17 Apr 1912

28 - Letter and forms from the district valuer to J. Dodd relating to provisional valuation of 23 and 25 Grosvenor Street - 30 March 1915

29 - Draft agreement between Sir Horatio lord, recorder, and others [named] and Chester Corporation for transfer to the Corporation of the Grosvenor Museum and Schools of Science and Art - 1 Nov 1915

31 - Draft conveyance [typed] as in ZC182C/30 - 1 May 1916

32 - Conveyance from Sir Horatio Lloyd, Knight, recorder and others [named] to Chester Corporation of the Grosvenor Museum and Schools of Science and Art, together with 22 (formerly 26) Castle Street, then used as a domestic subjects centre in connection with the museum and 23 and 25 (formerly 33 and 35) Grosvenor Street. Plan - 1 May 1916

33 - Schedule of deeds and writings, 1858-1908, relating to the Grosvenor Museum - 22 June 1916

34 - Draft declaration of trust by Henry Taylor of 'Claremont', Curzon Park, solicitor a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries, relating to Caldecott memorial prize fund - 20 Nov 1916

35 - Abstract of title, 1894-1930, of Albert Parry as mortgagee of 26 Castle Street. Annexed: Schedule of deeds relating to the above - 1933

36 - Resolution of the Savings Bank trustees relating to the wall dividing the bank premises from the site of the museum. Plan - Undated

37 - Plan of the Grosvenor Museum - Undated

185 - Papers relating to land at Heath Lane off Christleton Road, Chester - 1912 - 1971

191C - Papers relating to Linenhall Place and Linenhall Street, Chester - 1881 - 1921

196 - Papers relating to land at Curzon Park, Chester - 1886-1926

199C - No. 20 [formerly No. 24], St. John Street, No. 2 The Newgate, and Right of Way and land adjoining the Post Office, St. John Street

213C - Papers relating to 8 King Street

216C - Nos. 22, 24 and 26 Watergate Street; Nos. 22, 24 and 26 Watergate Row; Nos. 1 and 3 Goss Street

217C - Abstract of title, 1877-1924

264C - Papers relating to extension of the Public Library, St John Street [formerly Auction Sale Rooms]

266C - Nos. 65, [formerly the 'Blue Bell'], 67 and 69, Northgate Street

312 - Deeds etc relating to houses on west side of Love Street (formerly Love Lane), Chester - 1764-1933

313 - Deeds etc relating to Overleigh Cemetery - 1848 - 1938

316 - Deeds etc relating to premises in Linenhall Street, Chester - 1664 - 1810

324C - 8 Hoole Park

352C - Premises in Watergate Street and Goss Street

353C - Nos. 4 and 6 Linenhall Street

442C - No. 63 Watergate, Nos. 75 and 77; Watergate Street Row, and Nos. 1 and 3 Weaver Street

443C - Papers relating to Nos. 67, 69, 73, 75 and 77 Watergate Row South, No. 61 Watergate Street, No. 3 Weaver Street and No. 37 Nicholas Street

527C - No. 61 Watergate Street and Nos. 71 and 73 Watergate Street Row

1025C - Deeds relating to Green Bank, Eccleston Lane,Chester

1026C - Deeds relating to Green Bank, Eccleston Lane, Chester - [1706] - 1960

F - Declaration Books - 1835-1961

G - Elections

LC - Local Acts of Parliament - 1700-1944

LD - Local Bills - 1762-1951

LE - Commissions of Inquiry - 1850-1952

LU - Corporation Lawsuits - 1558-1929

N - Byelaws

P - Publications

U - Tape recordings

Z - Council manuscripts