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Bedfordshire County Council booklet - History of Civil Defence 1935-1945 including: lists of members of County Emergency Committee and other senior County Officers; location of: sirens; Wardens' Posts; First Aid Party and Rescue Party Depots; Ambulance Depots; Decontamination Squad Depots; First Aid Posts; Mobile First Aid Unit Depots; and First Aid Points in the county; and photographs as follows: - assembling respirators in The Corn Exchange, Bedford, Sep 1938; - issue of helmet respirator to a mother and baby, 1939; - County Emergency Committee and officials 1939; - public cleansing of outer garments at a gas exercise c.1939; - food decontamination at a gas exercise, 1939; - County Headquarters Mobile First Aid Unit with their vehicle (winners of County Championship in 1943); - lowering a stretcher case from a first floor window at Wootton Rescue School c.1943; - demolished house at Lower Stondon, 26 Sep 1940 in which the first Bedfordshire air raid casualties were inflicted; - clearing the railway track after a direct hit at Girtford Siding, 21 Oct 1940; - bomb damage to Grosvenor Hotel, Ashburnham Road, Bedford, 23 Jul 1942; - parties repairing damage to roofs in Albert Street, Bedford, caused by incendiary bombs, 30 Jul 1942; - Inspector General Sir John Hodsoll CB inspecting nurses and other personnel at Dunstable, 11 Oct 1942;

1935-1945

From: 1935 To: 1945

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civil defence, Bedfordshire County Council, Air Raid Precautions, First Aid, ambulances, civil defence medical, photographs, air raids over UK, 3rd built railways, hotels, nurses, Bedford Corn Exchange, WOOTTON, Lower Stondon, Girtford, Bedford Ashburnham Road, Bedford Grosvenor Hotel, Bedford Albert Street, DUNSTABLE