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

Catalogue reference: WW2 AR C/2/41

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Reference
WW2 AR C/2/41
Date
24 Apr 1940
Description

Agenda papers including, amongst other things:

- communications from Ministry of Home Security regarding: organisation of Air Raid Precautions services; air raid shelters in specified areas; protective measures by Catchment Boards; arrangements for mutual support;

- Fire Brigades Regional Orders;

- communications from Ministry of Health regarding: an irrigator stand for Three Counties Asylum, Stotfold; terms of service of Civil Nursing Reserve; sandbag defences at hospitals;

- communications from Senior Regional Officer regarding: list of Emergency Hospitals; accommodation for Women's Voluntary Services; alterations to Kempston Report Post; erection of three and alteration of four Wardens' Posts in Bedford Borough; air raid warning sirens; eastern Regional Dispatch Scheme; Combined Depot and Cleansing Station, London Road, Bedford;

- conversion of fixed gas chamber into Repair Depot and Store, Bedford Borough;

- Dunstable Health Centre;

- war bonus for Air Raid Precautions staff;

- evacuee billeting in Leighton Buzzard;

- location and direction signs in Bedford Borough;

- augmentation of police force for Air Raid Precautions work;

- use of land belonging to St.John's Hospital Trust as a right of way to shelters, Bedford;

- accommodation for 200 airwomen at Leighton Buzzard.

[ex W/ARPP 18]

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

acc. 6508

Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/2444e9e2-85a5-4929-9c46-2107e7ba941e/

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WW2 AR C

Air Raid Precautions, Committee Material

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Air Raid Precautions, Committee Material

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