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Ashcroft, M Y (editor).
A History of the North Riding of Yorkshire County Council 1889-1974.
Publisher: North Riding of Yorkshire County Council, Northallerton;
Date of Publication: 1974
Stock Code: 6087
Presentation copy reproduced by offset-litho at County Hall. Quarto, pp ix, [1], 174. Frontispiecce photgraph of the Chairman and Clerk of the County Council; tables, maps and plans in text. Two-tone black and grey cloth; patterned endpapers. A very clean copy; Near Fine. Signature of Chairman James P Fletcher to presentation leaf. Presented to County Alderman Sir Charles Richmond-Brown, Bart, in commemoration of the last meeting of the North Riding County Council on 27th March 1974. The history was written for County Council members to commemorate the achievements of the administration of the preceding 85 years and was compiled using minutes of meetings, statements of the Chairman and research by staff at the County Record Office. Scarce. £45.00