Bedfordshire Archives Service Catalogue
  • Reference
    WW2/AR/C2/25
  • Title
    Agenda papers including, amongst other things: - communications from Ministry of Home Security regarding: taking of premises for civil defence purposes; Gas Identification Service; conditions of service for part-time volunteers in ordinary employment; civilian duty respirators fitted with microphone attachments; location and direction signs; aids to movement of traffic; supplies of detector paint; wartime lighting restrictions for shops; vehicle lighting during thick fog; used of illuminated lettering on Air Raid Precautions vehicles at night; discontinuance of use of factory sirens; use of schools for civil defence; annual leave for civil defence volunteers; - communications from Ministry of Health regarding: village halls and club premises; leave with pay in cases of sickness or injury; Emergency Hospital Scheme; personal protective equipment for hospitals; allowances to billeted hospital staff; annual leave for volunteer personnel; - carrying of gas masks by school children; - communications from Senior Regional Officer regarding: schedule of reserved occupations; Gas Identification Officers; use of school shelters by the public; use of Geneva Emblem on Civil Defence vehicles; Air Raid Precautions badges; annual leave of whole time personnel; requisitioning of Park Farm, Dunstable; appointment of County Ambulance & Transport Officer as Assistant County ARP Officer; mass resignations of Air Raid Precautions Wardens at Streatley in protest at inadequate equipment and communications regarding raids; enrolment of unauthorised whole time personnel; Ambulance Depot at Sandy; services of members of Red Cross Society; basement shelters in Biggleswade; Report Posts at Ampthill, Kempston and Sandy; - lighting of emergency ambulances; - testing of air raid warning sirens; - BBC weather forecasts; - incendiary bomb instruction in South Bedfordshire Area; - Wardens' reports of infringements of lighting restrictions in Bedford; - camouflage; - volunteers for County Air Raid Precautions Service from Britannia Iron & Steel Works, J.P.White & Sons Ltd., Cryselco Ltd., Charles Wells Ltd., Meltis Ltd., and Sidney Press Ltd., all Bedford; - Luton Citizens Advice Bureau; - preservation of sandbags in South West Bedfordshire Area; - Air Raid Precautions shelter in Kempston; - Sharnbrook First Aid Unit vehicle; - adaptation of Biggleswade Police Station to Air Raid Precautions Headquarters and Control Centre; - adaptation of The Lawns, Biggleswade, as a First Aid Post; adaptation of Kempston Methodist Sunday School as a First Aid Post; - adaptation of St.Leonard's Hall, Bedford as Central Area Control Centre; - adaptation of part of Ampthill Public Assistance Institution as a First Aid Post and part as a cleansing station and depot; - adaptation of Leighton Buzzard Public Assistance Institution as a Control Post. [ex W/ARPP 12]
  • Date free text
    13 Dec 1939
  • Production date
    From: 1939 To: 1939
  • Level of description
    item
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