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Agenda papers including, amongst other things: - communications from Ministry of...

Catalogue reference: WW2 AR C/2/74

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WW2 AR C/2/74
Date
20 Nov 1940
Description

Agenda papers including, amongst other things:

- communications from Ministry of Home Security regarding: inflammable spirit on highways or in sewers; Civil Defence volunteers injured whilst on duty;

- communications from Senior Regional Officer regarding: unexploded anti-aircraft shells; reports of air raid damage; Wardens' Post at The Bell Inn, Odell; Wardens' Post at "The Shelter", Pulloxhill; Wardens' Post at 10 Church Lane, Wymington; use of cellar at 17 and 17a Market Square, Leighton Buzzard as public shelter; supplies of steel; assistance to RAF Stations;

- communications from Ministry of Health regarding: equipment for First Aid Posts; arrangements for evacuated children at Christmas and New Year; welfare aspect of evacuation; temporary midwives at Battlesden House Emergency Maternity Home; evaluation co-ordination;

- proposed camouflage scheme for Bedford Modern School swimming baths;

- rates of pay of Nursing Auxiliaries;

- Wardens' Post at British Legion Room, Riseley;

- Wardens' post at 30 High Street, Kempston;

- communal shelters for Lower Stondon;

- Wardens' Post at The Bungalow, Ward Hedges Hill, Flitton;

- Rescue Party Depot at Kirby Road, Dunstable;

- Combined Services Depot, Bunyan Hall, Kempston;

- Wardens' Post at 32 Kingsbury Avenue, Dunstable;

- relief of homeless and destitute in wartime;

- public warning signals in Bedford Borough;

- raid on Leighton Buzzard, 15 Nov 1940 [10 wounded];

- report on accommodation for refugees from air attack.

[ex W/ARPP 26]

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Bedfordshire Archives & Records Service
Language
English
Immediate source of acquisition

acc. 6516

Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/1c26ad94-a178-4d5a-989d-4d654c458a20/

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WW2 AR C

Air Raid Precautions, Committee Material

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Agenda papers including, amongst other things: - communications from Ministry of...