Reference
WW2/AR/C2/246
Title
Agenda papers
Date free text
3 Jan 1945
Production date
From: 1945 To: 1945
Scope and Content
including, amongst other things:
- communications with Ministry of Home Security regarding: closure of Wardens' Posts in Bedford and release of staff, posts being at garage at 8 Rothsay Road, garage at Fox and Hounds Public House, Goldington Road, garage at rear of 115 Ford End Road, room in 25 Cauldwell Street, garage at 91 Brackley Road, garage at 2 Richmond Road, room at 36 Alexandra Road and room in playground of Silver Jubilee School; action to be taken when Orders under Fire Guard (Local Authority Services) Order 1943 and Fire Guard (Business & Government Premises) Order 1943 cease to apply; address by Queen Elizabeth to women members of Civil Defence Services and Fire Guard; Christmas Message to Civil Defence Services and Fire Guard; long range rockets (V2s); new fuse in German SD2 bomb; Wardens' Post at Little Staughton Rectory garage; public shelter in basement of 43 High Street South, Dunstable; closure of Wardens' Post at St.Neots Public Assistance Institution; relinquishment of Rescue Party Depot in loft of Baxter's Yard, Stotfold; closure of Wardens' Posts in Leighton Buzzard at The Chase, Heath Road, 43 Hockliffe Street and 121 Vandyke Road;
- communications with Ministry of Health regarding: retention of Methodist Schoolroom, Harpur Street, Bedford as additional Medical Store; reductions in Casualty Services; release of four additional rooms at St.Mary's Methodist Schoolroom, Cauldwell Street, Bedford; closure of First Aid Points at St.Mary's Methodist Sunday School, Bedford, St.Mary's Church Sunday School, Bedford, Queens Park Moravian Sunday School, Bedford; All Saints Church Sunday School, Bedford and Methodist Sunday School, Kempston; Government Evacuation Scheme; Christmas arrangements for unaccompanied evacuated children from Channel Islands; reduction of Rest Centre Service; WVS Gift Scheme for the homeless; running costs of Clophill Rectory Sick Bay; WVS Store at Trinity Church crypt, Bedford;
- visit to Bedfordshire of Inspector General of Civil Defence;
- reinstatement of Civil Employment Act 1944;
- release of Mid Bedfordshire Conservative & Unionist Association Headquarters as Air Raid Precautions Headquarters;
- relinquishment of Wardens' Posts at: 53 Edward Street, Dunstable; Old Police Station, Icknield Street, Dunstable; shop at 129 High Street North, Dunstable; The Chequers Public House, Houghton Regis;
- relinquishment of Reporting Posts at: 38 Luton Road, Dunstable; 2 London Road, Dunstable; and 270 High Street North, Dunstable;
- relinquishment of Rescue Depot at Meads Yard, Princes Street, Dunstable;
- relinquishment of Mobile Unit Headquarters at Montpelier House, Dunstable;
- toys made by Dunstable Rescue Parties.
Level of description
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