Bedfordshire Archives Service Catalogue
  • Reference
    WW2/AR/C2/96
  • Title
    Agenda papers including, amongst other things: - communications from Senior Regional Officer regarding: public air raid shelters near Bedford railway stations; Bedford Borough payments to fire watchers; local Civil Defence training facilities for military personnel; unexploded bombs, shells and parachute mines; supply of tear gas for exercises; assistance to RAF stations; - communications from Ministry of Health regarding: appointment of County Social & Welfare Worker; Cleansing Station at St.Peter's Hall First Aid Post; evacuation to Northern Ireland; Auxiliary Hospitals and their staffing; accommodation for transferred war workers and their families; billeting squads of officers for Bedford and Luton; provision of refreshments in public air raid shelters; use of 26 Margetts Road, Kempston as a Wardens' post; requisition of rooms at Methodist Sunday School, Dunstable Street, Ampthill; - names of Transport Park Marshals with number of vehicles earmarked for each Park in connection with Blitz organisation; - homeless persons in Bedford; - communications from Ministry of Home Security regarding: communication of information on air raid damage to Local Authority members; fire prevention standards for trade and industry; advances to meet claims regarding requisition of premises; eligibility of Fire watchers and Fire Bomb Fighters for Air Raid Precautions badge; - methods for alternative supplies of water; - The Lawns, Biggleswade, First Aid Post; - Luton Borough Shelter and Feeding Stations; - homeless persons; - accommodation for refugees from air attack; - resignation of Arthur Basen, Air Raid Precautions Officer for Central Area. [ex W/ARPP 33]
  • Date free text
    30 Apr 1941
  • Production date
    From: 1941 To: 1941
  • Level of description
    item
Hierarchy browser