Documentary & Photographic Collection
Memorial Inscriptions
- All Saints Parish Church
- Salem/Congregational Church
- Pool Road Cemetery
Schools
- Log Books – Westgate, Clifton, North Parade (abstracts)
- Registers – North Parade
- Prince Henry's School magazines
- School photographs
Family Papers
- Family Trees and information deposited by researchers
- Photograph albums
- Portraits
Local Industries
(Especially printers' engineering)
- Wages Books
- Accounts Books
- Accident Books
- Apprentice Indentures
Courts
- Petty Sessions Minute book & register
- Court of Summary Jurisdiction Register
Sports Teams & Clubs
- Photographs
- Team records
- Minute books
Associations
- Minute books
Local Trade & Businesses
- Account Books & names of customers & addresses
- (e.g. Blacksmiths, Corn-dealers, Joiners, Builders, Carriers, Shoemakers, Rope-makers, Saddlers, Butchers, Innkeepers etc.)
- Chemists' prescription books with names of patients. (19th Century)
Other Documents
- Wills
- Inventories
- Valuation books
- Fire Insurance Registers (including surnames, occupation, location)
- Deeds
- Lease agreements
- Survey of Lands
- Building records - Plans & Plans Register
- Tithe Award Map
- Enclosure Award
Military Items
- Farnley Hall Training Camp (Photos, Albums, Press Cuttings)
- 10th West Riding Howitzer Battery
- Old Comrades Association
- Body of 1st World War research Otley
- Details of Servicemen recorded on Otley War memorials
General Collection of Ephemera
- Theatrical Society Programmes
- Individuals' funeral cards, certificates, ration books
Mechanics Institute Papers
- Bookings
- Lectures
- Social Events
- Accounts
General
- Land Tax Returns (1792)
- Muster Roll (1539)
- Subsidy Roll (1545)
- Poll Tax Return (1379)
- Press cuttings
- Trade directories
- Maps
- Otley Town Guides
- Books on the History of Otley
- Photographs
- and much more
