Scope and Content
The file was originally numbered as 1-300 but with some unnumbered correspondence at the end. There was no known index to the numbers. The correspondence retained after weeding has been kept in its original sequence and an index is given below.
Air Raid Precautions: 117
Applin, Mrs: 101, 102, 124, 125
Bedfordshire Territorial Army Association: 274
Black-out; 311
British Broadcasting Corporation: 1, 38
Brown, Leonard: 49
Call to citizens: 36
Catering establishments: 170,
Chief Constable: 249, 250, 311
Cinemas and films: 28, 204, 244
Confectioners: 14
Conscientious objectors: 260
Course, Maud H: 3, 9
Crossley-Holland, F W: 218
Early closing: 14
Egg packing station 100 (Nares Gladley Farm, Leighton Buzzard: 136
Elections: 163, 183, 316, 319
Explosives: 49
Farmers, warnings to: 1, 38, 117
Flooding, warning to farmers to move livestock: 1, 38, 179
Fortune, Audrey, appointment of: 329
Fowler, G H: 68, 82, 162, 224, 228
Goldingrton, Bury Walk: 308
Goodes, J, death of: 316, 317, 332
Government circulars: 15, 22 (food production allotments and private gardens), 137, 325 (traffic light signals), 326 (TB)
Hawksley, Councillor: 251, 256, 267, 301, 309, 310
Higgins, Charles: 316, 319
Home Defence Services: 257
Hospitals, Steppingley Isolation: 281
Hopitals, Bedford: 318
Joint Standing Committee: 152
Justices: 73
Keen, T, speech to council: 13.
Knitted Garments for the Navy: 313-315, 327
Langland, C: retirement of: 60
Local Government in wartime: 13
Luton & Dunstable Hospital: 194
Maternity and Child Welfare: 8, 47, 57, 101, 258, 259, 304, 305, 306
Medical officer, temporary appointment: 234
Military service: 17, 18,
Milk: 8, 47, 57
National Union of County Officers: 61
Nurses: 62, 72, 211, 217
Office equipment: 263, 264, 312
Orlebar, R R B: 55, 81, 95
Pearce, Sidney, employment of: 203, 212, 213
Pigeons: 248, 253
Price regulation: 184, 309, 310
Rationing: 218
Record Office (including reference to Miss Reavenhall, Collis and Cirket): 18, 68, 162, 166, 167, 191
Roads, Road Fund, Improvements (e.g. Stagsden, Podington), accidents, fund licence: 39, 55, 69, 81, 83, 95, 108, 109, 111, 113, 115, 118, 126, 130, 138, 140, 144, 145, 153, 154, 173, 174, 175, 196, 202, 206, 212, 219, 220, 221, 222, 231, 232, 242, 243, 302, 308
Shooting: 180, 248, 253, 322 (Putnoe Lane), 323, 324, 325, 328, 331, 333
Shuttleworth, Richard: 308
Snow ploughs: 99
Social work: 3, 9
Solicitors: 94,
Stone, Ronald: 146, 150, 151
Swan Hotel: 320, 321
Taxation, local: 83
Theft, bicycle (request for policeman for car park at Old Grils Modern School): 104, 105, 303
TB: 53, 56, 326
Vauxhall Motors Ltd: 53, 56, 65
VD scheme: 78
Vehicles, council: 97, 99, 261
Wages and conditions of employment: 53, 56, 63, 66, 72, 122, 132, 182, 187, 302, 330
War: 241, 311, 308, 316
War Agricultural Executive Committee (loan of CC staff): 236
Woburn estate: 248, 253
Women's Land Army: 283
Wymington: 311
Young Persons Employment Act , 1838: 155, 156, 157, 208
Youth movement: 180, 233