WW2/AR/Pu2/2

Bundle of loose papers including: - cutting from Bedfordshire Times of 24 Nov 1939 showing weathervanes designed by ARP wardens to determine the direction of wind in the event of a gas attack from the air; - details of an incident of 15 Sep 1940 when a stick of high explosives fell on Park Farm, Bromham Hall and across the river in Biddenham; two of the three bombs falling on Bromham being unexploded; - verbatim report of explosion at Gwyswick, Northampton Turn [see also WW2/AR/Pu 2/1]; - memo from Bromham Senior Fire Guard to all Fire Party Leaders and Wardens regarding: a batten device to hold a hose and prevent the necessity of entering a room containing a semi-ignited or ignited incendiary bomb; overhaul of stirrup pumps; stirrup pump notice cards to be prominently displayed in windows by all owners; need to advise Senior Fire Guard of changes in Fire Guard Party personnel; - order of putting out of warnings from the Wardens' Post and rota of Post duties from 2 Sep to 27 Oct 1944; - letter from R.Lovell-Lee to R.Skinner of Bromham Hall explaining, amongst other things that the manuscript was written for "the eyes of the future school child", 8 May 1945; - correspondence with Joyce Godber, County Archivist regarding deposit of the maunscript and photographs with County Record Office, 10 Jul - 23 Aug 1945

1939-1945

From: 1939 To: 1945

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Bedfordshire Times,
Skinner, R. (d),
Godber, Joyce

newspapers, air raids over UK, Bromham Park Farm, civil defence fire, archives, Bedfordshire & Luton Archives & Records Service, general education, Bromham Hall, BIDDENHAM, Bromham Northampton Road