WW2/AR/C2/252

Agenda papers including, amongst other things: - offers to purchase ex- Civil Defence vehicles; - disposal of ex-Civil Defence equipment; - communications with Ministry of Home Security regarding: disbandment of Civil Defence Services; disbandment of Civil Defence vehicle fleets; possible use of air raid sirens for Fire Service purposes; termination of Traders' Salvage Schemes; dismantling of Morrison Shelters by Boy Scout Association members; preservation of records; Air Raid Precautions Equipment Bulletin No.37; farewell parade in London for Civil Defence Service members; recruits for Civilian Relief Overseas Organisation and for welfare work in India and South Eastern Asia Command; use of vestry and kitchen of Clapham Methodist Church as Civil Defence Store; removal of blast wall outside 104 Bedford Road, Kempston; transfer of East Bedfordshire Area Headquarters from Old Police Station, Biggleswade to Stratton House, Biggleswade; former use of 6 Orchard Street, Kempston as a Wardens' Post; former use of Kempston Hoo Estate Office hut at Eugster Avenue, Kempston as Wardens' Post; - release of premises in South Bedfordshire including: former Wardens' Post, Rescue Headquarters and First Aid Point at The Bury, Barton-le-Clay; former Wardens' Post and First Aid Point at The Chequers Public House, Streatley; former Wardens' Post at hut at Warden Hill, Streatley; former Wardens' Post and First Aid Point at 18 Whitfield Avenue, Sundon; Wardens' Post and First Aid Point at Old Baptist Chapel, Upper Sundon; former Wardens' Post, Rescue Headquarters and First Aid Point at Toddington Social Club and Institute; former Wardens' Post and First Aid Point at Woodlands, Tilsworth; former Wardens' Post and First Aid Point at The Old Smithy, Tebworth; former Wardens' Post at Countryside Laundry, Houghton Regis; former Wardens' Post and First Aid Point at Lockington Farm, Totternhoe; former Wardens' Post and First Aid Point at Whipsnade Zoo; former Wardens' Post and First Aid Point at Womens' Institute, Common Road, Kensworth; former Wardens' Post and First Aid Point at Caddington Vicarage; former Wardens' Post and First Aid Point at school house at Slip End Council Mixed School, Caddington; - communications with Ministry of Health regarding: dismantling of First Aid Posts at All Saints Church Sunday School, Bedford and Queens Park Moravian Church Hall, Bedford; conveyance of emergency cases after disbandment of Civil Defence Ambulance Service; rehousing of homeless families; message from Minister of Health to Civil Nursing Reserve; message of thanks for Local Authorities contribution to the war effort; hospital treatment during final leave of those discharged from armed forces; return of evacuees; Emergency Mortuary Service; repatriation to Channel Islands; - disbandment of First Aid Point organisation in Bedford; - former First Aid Depots at East Hall, York Street, Bedford and 27 Park Road east, Bedford; - disposal of rhythmatic control relays used as siren control units; - terminations of appointment of officers-in-charge of First Aid Posts and Mobile Units; - disbandment of Food Treatment Service; -reorganisation of Area 12 Fire Service including Sub Area 2 - Bedfordshire and part of Tetworth (Huntingdonshire) under Divisional Officer W.J.Malster; - street lighting; - air raid shelters in Dunstable; - use of Stratton House, Biggleswade; - contributions from patients under Emergency Hospital Scheme; - release of room at 110 Dunstable Street, Ampthill to Mid Bedfordshire Conservative & Unionist Association; - use of part of Pyghtle Farm, Tempsford, for Civil Defence purposes; - resignation of W.H.Chittenden, East Bedfordshire Area Air Raid Precautions Controller; - shelters in Biggleswade; - Air Ministry occupation of part of Leighton Buzzard Public Assistance Institution; - claims regarding the following premises used for Civil Defence purposes: Cople Parish Room; land in front of Studham Post Office; Woodlands, Tilsworth; Henlow Vicarage; Old Baptist Chapel, Upper Sundon. [ex W/ARPP 71]

11 Jul 1945

From: 1945 To: 1945

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Malster, Walter John,
Chittenden, W.H.

Ministry of Home Security, civil defence, Boy Scouts, Streatley Chequers, Toddington Workmen's Social Club, Totternhoe Lockington Farm, Slip End Council Mixed School, Ministry of Health, nursing, evacuees, First Aid, air raid shelters, Tempsford Pyghtle Farm, Air Ministry, London, South East Asia, India, BEDFORD, KEMPSTON, BIGGLESWADE, BEDFORDSHIRE, BARTON-LE-CLAY, STREATLEY, SUNDON, Upper Sundon, TODDINGTON, TILSWORTH, Tebworth, HOUGHTON REGIS, TOTTERNHOE, WHIPSNADE, KENSWORTH, CADDINGTON, Channel Islands, Tetworth, Huntingdonshire, DUNSTABLE, AMPTHILL, TEMPSFORD, LEIGHTON BUZZARD, COPLE, STUDHAM, TILSWORTH, HENLOW, Upper Sundon, Kempston Bedford Road, Biggleswade Stratton House, Kempston Orchard Street, Kempston Hoo, Kempston Eugster Avenue, Barton-le-clay The Bury, Streatley Warden Hill, Sundon Park Whitfield Avenue, Tilsworth Woodlands, Kensworth Common Road, Bedford York Street, Bedford Park Road East, Ampthill Dunstable Street, Whipsnade Zoo