WW2/AR/C2/67

Agenda papers including, amongst other things: - communications from Ministry of Home Security regarding: changes of ARP District boundaries [not Bedfordshire]; flooding of standard steel shelters; instructions for detecting unexploded bombs; disposal of unexploded parachute mines; equipment for Three Counties Hospital, Arlesey; - communications from Senior Regional Officer regarding: reports of casualties in air raid shelters; use of school shelters by general public outside school hours; awards for gallantry; information regarding air raid casualties; Rescue Party accommodation in Dunstable; requisition of 100 High Street, Bedford; modified street lighting; public shelters in Cranfield; - communications from Ministry of Health regarding: cost of maintenance of Poor Law and Public Health Institution patients removed under Emergency Hospital Scheme; accommodation and billeting of hospital staff; refugees from enemy attack; re-occupation of unoccupied houses by those made homeless by enemy action; transfer of mothers and children from London; unorganised evacuation of homeless from London; emergency water supplies to hospitals; war damage to hospitals; increase in number of whole-time personnel at Ampthill First Aid Post; expenditure regarding Battlesden House Maternity Home; - teaching of First Aid in schools; - use of school refuge rooms for teaching purposes; - street lighting in Bedford; - use of Langford Ivy Leaf Club as First Aid Point and Wardens' Post; - use of Harrold Church Room as Wardens' Post and First Aid Point; - use of 27 Park Road East, Bedford as Government Evacuation Store; - use of Kempston Church Hall as Air Raid Precautions personnel sleeping accommodation; - provision of public shelters in Bedford Road, Cranfield; - air raid shelters in Haynes; - report on enemy raid on 26/27 Sep at RAF Cranfield, RAF Henlow [three dead], Aspley Guise and Lower Stondon; - recruitment of volunteers; - shelter at Seer's premises, 3/5 Harpur Street, Bedford; - lights at RAF Cranfield; - air raid shelters at Cranfield; - Sharnbrook Mobile Unit [ex W/ARPP 24]

2 Oct 1940

From: 1940 To: 1940

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Ministry of Home Security, air raid shelters, Ministry of Health, Poor Laws, hospitals, Three Counties Hospital, evacuees, water, First Aid, air raids over UK, RAF, BEDFORDSHIRE, BEDFORD, ARLESEY, DUNSTABLE, CRANFIELD, London, AMPTHILL, BATTLESDEN, Ivy Leaf Club, LANGFORD, HARROLD, KEMPSTON, HAYNES, SHARNBROOK, ASPLEY GUISE, Lower Stondon, Bedford High Street, Bedford Park Road East, Cranfield Bedford Road, Bedford Harpur Street