A package (divided into 12 folders) containing papers accumulated in connection with Aire and Calder Navigation Lease No. 56: the Theatre Royal situate in Adam Street in the town of Goole, Yorkshire. It includes the following:

[Part 1]

Documents (1882–1928):

1. Lease for 99 years (1 September 1845): the Trustees of the Aire and Calder Navigation to Francis Lister, William Eden Cass, and Joseph Fletcher. It includes an inset plan showing the land and property in question. The Deed has been signed and sealed by the aforementioned parties.

2. Memorial of Assignment of Leasehold (2 November 1882): Rosa Rockett to the Reverend William Garnew and others.

3. Consent to Underlease (31 May 1878): John Humble Rockett to Henry Trevor Gardiner.

4. Consent to Underlease (8 August 1883): the Reverend William Garner, Thomas Wilson, George Drury, William Lazenby, and Richard Booth to Charles Bromley.

5. Consent to Underlease (27 November 1905): the Executors of the late Charles Bromley to James William Bentley.

6. Consent to Underlease (21 November 1928): Ferdinand Hartmann Ellicott, Fred Taylor, Randal Hopley, and Albert Ward Drury to Harry Kendell.

Plans and Illustration (1903–1908):

1. 'Alterations to Goole Threatre Royal: Plan of Concrete Bed for Engine and Dynamo' (14 April 1903)

Scale: 4 feet to 1 inch (1:48)

Dimensions: 600 x 530mm

2.'Perspective sketch of ventilator proposed to be fixed in roof of Public Rooms, Goole (16 July 1903)

3. 'Goole Theatre Royal' (June 1908)

Scale: 10 feet to 1.25 inch (1:96)

[Part 2]

Correspondence: Assignment of Leasehold Rockett to Garner and others (1882).

Correspondence: Assignement of Leasehold Garner and others to Garner and others (1883).

Correspondence: Assignment of Leasehold Garner and others to Charles Bromley (1886).

[Part 3]

Correspondence: Encroachments 2 awnings windows (1900–1905).

[Part 4]

Correspondence: Ventilator on roof of Public House (July 1903).

[Part 5]

Correspondence: Bromleys Executors to George Bentley (January 1905).

[Part 6]

Correspondence: James William Bentley to Fred Greaves—also alterations to Threatre (August 1908).

[Part 7]

Correspondence: Fred Greaves—Urinal for Goole Theatre (September 1908).

[Part 8]

Correspondence: Fred Greaves—Dynamo House for Theatre (April 1909).

[Part 9]

Correspondence: Fred Greaves to Self and Hartleys Brewery Company Limited (April 1909).

[Part 10]

Correspondence: Theatre Royal, Goole (September 1911).

[Part 11]

Correspondence: Hartley Brewery Company—Proposed transfer of Lease (August 1915).

[Part 12]

Correspondence (1916–1940).