Bedfordshire Archives Service Catalogue
  • Reference
    WW2/AR/CA3/1/1
  • Title
    Correspondence file regarding administration of the fund in Bedfordshire including the following: - setting up of County Committee; - minutes of meetings of Eastern Region Committee; - successful pressure for Mayor of Luton to be a member of Regional Committee in addition to the chairman of Bedfordshire County Council; - liaison with WVS regarding succour of evacuees; - names and addresses of members of each District/Borough Committee in Bedfordshire; - application for travelling expenses from William Shepherd of 102 Hitchin Road, Stotfold, bombed out of 83 Sandbrook Road, Stoke Newington; - procedure for giving grants etc.; - minutes of meeting of representatives of Bedfordshire County Council and all Borough and District Councils in the county to consider administration of funds allocated to Bedfordshire; - summary of payments made and applications received in Bedfordshire as at Jun 1941; - delivery of mobile new canteen; - Bedfordshire County Air Raid Distress Committee accounts for 1940/41; - correspondence regarding funds to provide Christmas parties etc. for evacuated children, including details of some events held, each year 1941-1944; - numbers of evacuee children, other than London County Council area children, in the following towns and villages in Dec 1942: Little Barford; Biggleswade; Bletsoe; Blunham; Bolnhurst; Broom; Caldecote; Campton; Cardington; Carlton; Clapham; Clophill; Colmworth; Cople; Dunstable; Dunton; Farndish; Flitwick; Haynes; Hinwick; Houghton Regis; Husborne Crawley; Kempston; Langford; Maulden; Melchborne; Millbrook; Milton Ernest; Mogerhanger; Oakley; Odell; Pertenhall; Podington; Potton; Pulloxhill; Ravensden; Renhold; Ridgmont; Riseley; Salford; Sandy; Sharnbrook; Shefford; Slip End; Souldrop; Southill; Stagsden; Steppingley; Stevington; Stotfold; Streatley; Studham; Swineshead; Thurleigh; Tilsworth; Tingrith; Toddington; Totternhoe; Turvey; Willington; Wilstead; Wrestlingworth; Yielden; - correspondence regarding successful claim of Frederick Allen of 142 Richmond Hill, Luton, a former Supervisory Foreman in Luton Goods Yard who lost his hand and parts of his left buttock and thigh from a bomb blast; - correspondence regarding successful claim for travelling expenses of William Oxley, 1 Bingwood Terrace, Ripon, bombed out of his house in London; - correspondence regarding successful claim of Thomas H. Dumpleton of 81 Solway Road, Luton, bombed out of his house in Waller Avenue, Luton, he and his wife suffering severe injuries; - correspondence regarding unsuccessful claim of Colin Pree, aged 16 and crippled, billeted at 20 Ashburnham Road, Bedford; - inability to spare mobile canteen for work in Europe; - successful claim of Mrs. A.E.Canham of 41 Chaucer Road, Bedford, proprietor of Grosvenor Hotel, Midland Road, Bedford, which was badly damaged by enemy bombing; the claim was for assistance with school fees for her son at Bedford Modern School; - successful claim by A.S.Sherman, bombed out of 55 New Way, Colindale NW9 for assistance with buying furniture for his new home in Luton; - sale by auction of former WVS mobile canteen to Tony Arpino of Antonio's Ice Cream Company of 108 Greyfriars, Bedford, including unsuccessful bids of Frederick K.Robinson of 82 Newark Road, Luton (wishing to set up a mobile canteen) and Ethel Murray of 45 de Parys Avenue, Bedford who drove the canteen during the war; - return of unused funds by District/Borough Committees to County Committee; - correspondence regarding claim by Mrs. Janman, 11 Cardington Road, Bedford to enable her to return home, having been bombed out of her previous home of 8 Pelham Place, Seaford [Sussex].
  • Date free text
    1940-1947
  • Production date
    From: 1940 To: 1947
  • Level of description
    item
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