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Agenda papers including, amongst other things: - appointment of County Social &...

Catalogue reference: WW2 AR C/2/93

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Reference
WW2 AR C/2/93
Date
9 Apr 1941
Description

Agenda papers including, amongst other things:

- appointment of County Social & Welfare Worker;

- communications from Senior Regional Officer regarding: appointment of local commanders; gas exercises; fire prevention; approximate number of bombing incidents in the region [10 in Bedfordshire in Mar 1941]; detection of unexploded bombs; Wardens' Posts at Home Farm, Milton Ernest, Bletsoe Old Rectory and Little Staughton Baptist Chapel Sunday School; Wardens' Post and First Aid Point at Clapham Wesleyan Methodist Sunday School; County Control Centre; additional public shelters in Dunstable; gas exercise in Leighton Buzzard; damage to historical records;

- communications from Ministry of Health regarding: First Aid Posts at St.Mary's Church and All Saints, Bedford;

- erection of public surface shelters in Harrowden Road, Bedford; use of Clapham School as a Feeding & Shelter Station; homeless in Luton; billeting at Leighton Buzzard; use of Sandy Baptist Schoolroom by military authorities

- use of schools as rest centres;

- flooding of Henlow shelters;

- correspondence with Lieutenant R.B.Davis, captain of HM Trawler Bedfordshire;

- accommodation for refugees from air attack.

[ex W/ARPP 32]

Held by
Bedfordshire Archives & Records Service
Language
English
Immediate source of acquisition

acc. 6522

Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/0077279c-284f-48af-95fc-3ae287127379/

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Air Raid Precautions, Committee Material

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Agenda papers including, amongst other things: - appointment of County Social &...