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ZD - Chester City Council Departments - 18th century - 21st century

B - Baths - 1901

CC - Culture and Community

CE - Overleigh Cemetery - 1850-1978

CHE - Chief Executive

CO - Communications - 1991-2007

D - Development - 1998-2002

DH - Health Department

DL - Chester Public Library - 1874-1974

E - Education - 1886-1974

EC - Economic Development Unit

EL - Electricity - 1882-1947

ES - Chester Schools - 1803-1998

ET - Regeneration and Tourism Development

F - Chester Fire Service

HO - Housing - 1919-1968

LS - Leisure Services

MT - Motor Taxation Department - 1903-1978

MU - Museum - 1886-1968

PA - Parks and Gardens - c1867

PO - Police - 1836-1945

PU - Publicity Department - 1907-1979

S - Surveyor - 1859-1962

SE - City Secretary's Department - 1977-1992

T - Town Clerk - 1837-1980

TH - Gateway Theatre - 1968-2007

1 - Gateway Theatre programmes: individual productions - 1984-1997

1 - `Can't Pay? Won't Pay!' by Dario Fo - 2-25 Aug 1984

2 - `Submariners' by Tom McClenaghan - 30 Aug - 22 Sep 1984

3 - `Trafford Tanzi' by Claire Luckham - 27 Sep - 20 Oct 1984

4 - `Macbeth' by William Shakespeare - 1 - 24 Nov 1984

5 - `Rainbow Man' by John Cooper - 6 Dec 1984 - 19 Jan 1985

6 - `Way upstream' by Alan Ayckbourn - n.d. [early 1985]

7 - `The Collector' by David Parker - 28 Feb - 23 Mar 1985

8 - `Steaming' by Nell Dunn - 4 Apr - 4 May 1985

9 - `One for the Road' By Willy Russell - 9 May - 8 Jun 1985

10 - `The Importance of being Earnest' by Oscar Wilde - 18 Jul - 17 Aug 1985

11 - `The Real Thing' by Tom Stoppard - 5 - 28 Sep 1985

12 - `What the Butler Saw' by Joe Orton - 10 Oct - 2 Nov 1985

13 - `A night of passion on Buttermoor Drive' by Bob Mason - 15 May - 7 Jun 1986

14 - `She Stoops to Conquer' by Oliver Goldsmith - 10 Jul - 16 Aug 1986

15 - `Rough Crossing' by Tom Stoppard - 4 - 27 Sep 1986

16 - `Play it again Sam' by Woody Allen - 2 - 25 Oct. 1986

17 - `A view from the bridge' by Arthur Miller - 6 - 29 Nov 1986

18 - `Jack and the beanstalk' by Bob Carlton - 12 Dec. 1986 - 31 Jan 1987

19 - `Intimate exchanges' by Alan Ayckbourn - 5 Feb - 21 March 1987

20 - `Should ould acquaintance' by Alan Bleasdale - 2 - 25 April 1987

21 - `Pravda' by Howard Brenton and David Hare - 30 April - 23 May 1987

22 - `Sailor beware' by Philip King and Falkland Carey - 30 July - 29 Aug. 1987

23 - `Made in Bangkok' by Anthony Minghella - 3 - 26 Sept. 1987

24 - `Loot' by Joe Orton - 1 - 24 Oct. 1987

25 - `The Tempest' by William Shakespeare - 5 - 28 Nov. 1987

26 - `Dick Whittington and his cat' by Les Miller - 12 Dec 1987 - 23 Jan 1988

27 - `Educating Rita' by Willy Russell - 20 Jan - 20 Feb 1988

28 - `A month of Sundays' by Bob Larbey - 25 Feb - 19 Mar 1988

29 - `The Teddy Bears' Picnic' by David Pinner - 25 Mar - 16 Apr 1988

30 - `Noises Off' by Michael Frayn - 30 Apr - 4 Jun 1988

31 - `Come on Jeeves' by P G Wodehouse and Guy Bolton - 18 Aug - 24 Sep 1988

32 - `Who's afraid of Virginia Woolf?' by Edward Albee - 29 Sep - 22 Oct 1988

33 - `Twelfth Night' by William Shakespeare - 3 - 26 Nov 1988

34 - `Cinderella' - 3 Dec 1988 - 14 Jan 1989

35 - `How the other Half Loves', by Alan Ayckbourn - 21 Jan - 18 Feb 1989

36 - `Skin Deep', by David Pinner - 2 - 25 Mar 1989

37 - `Serious Money', by Caryl Churchill - 12 May - 3 Jun 1989

38 - `Rivals', by Richard Brinsley Sheridan - 14 July - 12 Aug 1989

39 - `Elsie and Norm's Macbeth' by John Christopher Wood - 7 - 30 Sep 1989

40 - `Hamlet', by William Shakespeare - 6 - 28 Sep 1989

41 - `The Turn of the Screw', by Henry James - 9 Nov - 2 Dec 1989

42 - `Aladdin', by Peter Fieldson - 9 Dec 1989 - 20 Jan 1990

43 - `Stepping Out', by Richard Harris - 25 Jan - 24 Feb 1990

44 - `Uncle Vanya', by Anton Chekhov Adapted by Stephen MacDonald - 9 - 31 Mar 1990

45 - `Our Day Out' by Willy Russell - 19 Apr - 19 May 1990

46 - `The Canterbury Tales' by Phil Woods with Michael Bogdanov - 13 July - 25 Aug 1990

47 - `Good', by C. P. Taylor - 29 Sep - 27 Oct 1990

48 - `A Midsummer Night's Dream' by William Shakespeare - 9 Nov - 1 Dec 1990

49 - `Mother Goose' by Peter Fieldson - 8 Dec 1990 - 19 Jan 1991

50 - `Double Double', by Eric Elice and Roger Rees - 25 Jan - 23 Feb 1991

51 - `Bazaar and Rummage' by Sue Townsend - 9 Mar - 6 Apr 1991

52 - `Blues in the Night' conceived and directed on Broadway by Sheldon Epps - 17 May - 8 Jun 1991

53 - `Teechers', by John Godber - 1-24 Aug 1991

54 - `Groping for Words', by Sue Townsend - 6-28 Sep 1991

55 - `Our Country's Good', by Timberlake Wertenbaker - 4-26 Oct 1991

56 - `All My Sons', by Arthur Miller - 8-30 Nov 1991

57 - `The Snow Queen', adapted by Neil Duffield from the fairytale by Hans Christian Andersen - 7 Dec 1991-18 Jan 1992

58 - `Hapgood' by Tom Stoppard - 31 Jan - 22 Feb 1992

59 - `Gaslight', by Patrick Hamilton - 28 Feb - 21 Mar 1992

60 - `The Maintenance Man', by Richard Harris - 16 Apr - 9 May 1992

61 - `It's a Girl!', by John Burrows - 15 May - 6 Jun 1992

62 - `Bouncers', by John Godber - 24 Jul - 22 Aug 1992

63 - `Lettice and Lovage', by Peter Schaffer - 25 Sep - 24 Oct 1992

64 - `The Ugly Duckling', by Hans Christian Andersen - 6 Dec 1992-16 Jan 1993

65 - `Veronica's Room', by Ira Levin - 13 Feb - 13 Mar 1993

66 - `Torch Song Trilogy'. by Harvey Fierstein - 26 Mar - 17 Apr 1993

67 - `Man of the Moment', by Alan Ayckbourn - 30 Apr - 29 May 1993

68 - `An Evening with Gary Lineker', by Arthur Smith and Chris England - 23 Jul 1993

69 - `Someone Who'll Watch Over Me', by Frank McGuinness - 3 - 25 Sep 1993

70 - `Romeo and Juliet', by William Shakespeare - 5 - 27 Nov 1993

71 - `Christmas Cat and the Pudding Pirates', by Jeanette Ranger and Christopher Lillicrap - 4 Dec 1993 - 15 Jan 1994

72 - `Second from last in the Sack Race' by Michael Birch - 31 Jan - 19 Feb 1994

73 - `Wuthering Heights' by Emily Bronte - 18 Mar - 16 Apr 1994

74 - `Amadeus' by Peter Shaffer - 22 Apr - 28 May 1994

75 - `Three Steps to Heaven' by David Cosgrove - 22 July - 27 Aug 1994

76 - `Shirley Valentine' by Willy Russell - 2-24 Sep 1994

77 - `Hamlet' by William Shakespeare - 4-26 Nov 1994

78 - `Charlotte's Web' by E B White - 3 Dec 1994 - 14 Jan 1995

79 - `Night Must Fall' by Emlyn Williams - 3 Feb - 4 Mar 1995

80 - `Three Steps to Heaven' by David Cosgrove - 10-25 Mar 1995

81 - `Anna Karenina' by Leo Tolstoy - 7-29 Apr 1995

82 - `Crush' by John McKay - 5-27 May 1995

83 - `Blue Moon' by Michael Crompton - 21 July - 26 Aug 1995

84 - `Taking Liberties' by Rod Dungate - 2 - 16 Sep 1995

85 - `Confusions' by Alan Ayckbourn - 22 Sep - 21 Oct 1995

86 - `Gasping' by Ben Elton - 3-25 Nov 1995

87 - `Once Upon a Time' by Jeremy Raison - 2 Dec 1995 - 13 Jan 1996

88 - `California Suite' by Neil Simon - 2-24 Feb 1996

89 - `Bouncers', by John Godber - Mar 1996

90 - `Strangers on a Train', by Craig Warner, based on a story by Patricia Highsmith - Apr 1996

91 - `It's Now or Never'! by Frank Jones - May 1996

92 - `Heart and Soul', by Spencer Leigh - Jul-Aug 1996

93 - `Girls Night Out', by Dave Simpson - 31 Aug-21 Sep 1996

94 - `Macbeth' by William Shakespeare - 27 Sep-19 Oct 1996

95 - `Beauty and the Beast' - 30 Nov 1996 - 11 Jan 1997

96 - `Bouncers - The Tinsel Mix' by John Godber - 30 Nov 1996 - 11 Jan 1997

97 - Nightmares: `The Body Snatcher' by Robert Louis Stevenson, `The Monkey's Paw' by W W Jacobs - 8-22 Feb 1997

98 - `3 Steps to Heaven' by David Cosgrove - 21 Mar - 19 Apr 1997

99 - `Chester Mystery Plays 1997' - 30 Jun - 16 Jul

2 - Gateway Theatre programmes - 1968-2007

3 - Production photographs - 1968-2002

4 - Production contact prints - 1981-2000

5 - Publicity photographs - c1968

6 - Theatre and staff photographs - c1968

7 - Teachers' packs - 1996-1999

8 - Children's promotional material - 1996

9 - Miscellanea - 1983-1995

TR - Treasurer's department - 1836-1995

W - Weights and Measures - 1824-1974

WE - Welfare - 1914-1974

WF - Motor Taxation - 1903-1978