WW2/AR/C2/58

Agenda papers including, amongst other things: - communications from Ministry of Home Security regarding: results of bombing on structures, including shelters; provision of gas curtains in public shelters; - communications from Senior Regional Officer regarding: deterrents against enemy aircraft landings; distribution of preliminary caution air raid warning messages to personnel; payment of driving licences for Air Raid Precautions drivers; likelihood of Germans using gas in attacks on UK; restrictions on persons being outside in certain areas from one hour after sunset to one hour before sunrise; co-ordination of defence; sleeping facilities at Shire Hall; gas proofing of Sandy Report Post; use of cellars at 24 Lurke Street, Bedford as an air raid shelter; summoning of Air Raid Precautions services in the event of a parachute landing; distribution of food in an emergency; Duplicate Control Room; deterrents against enemy aircraft landings; - communications from Ministry of Health regarding: fitness of Local Government staff for employment; notification of air raid casualties; homeless persons; Emergency Maternity Unit at Old Bute Hospital, Luton; proposed First Aid Point in Houghton Regis; - employment of aliens by Local Authorities; - erection of Air Raid Precautions offices at Girls' Modern School, Bedford; - conversion of W.Eayr's shop basement in Sandy as a public shelter; - air raid shelters in unspecified areas; - proposed protection of Eggington Vicarage; - protection of Control Room and Message Room in Biggleswade; - Alternative Control Room in Bedford Borough; - Wardens' Post and First Aid Post, Wilstead; - removal of siren controls at Shefford and Biggleswade; - resignation of County Air Raid Precautions Officer; - land mines; - enrolment of Milton Ernest Wardens in Home Guard; - relations between Local Defence Volunteers and Civil Defence services. [ex W/ARPP 22)

31 Jul 1940

From: 1940 To: 1940

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Ministry of Home Security, Air Raid Precautions, Germans, air raid shelters, Ministry of Health, Luton Bute Hospital, First Aid, Bedford Girls Modern School, civil defence, Home Guard, Bedford Borough, BEDFORD, SANDY, HOUGHTON REGIS, EGGINGTON, BIGGLESWADE, Wilstead, SHEFFORD, MILTON ERNEST, LUTON, Bedford Shire Hall, Bedford Lurke Street