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Agenda papers including, amongst other things: - assistance to military authorities;...

Catalogue reference: WW2 AR C/2/46

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Reference
WW2 AR C/2/46
Date
29 May 1940
Description

Agenda papers including, amongst other things:

- assistance to military authorities;

- billeting of RAF personnel at Leighton Buzzard Public Assistance Institution;

- communications from Senior Regional Officer regarding: supply of axes for use with stirrup pumps; recruitment of women for First Aid Parties; public lectures on Air Raid Precautions; Molltioff bottles [Molotov cocktails];

- communications from Ministry of Health regarding: Local Defence Volunteers [Home Guard]; preparation of Emergency Hospitals; repair of war damage; aliens; Emergency Hospital Scheme - Old Bute Hospital, Luton; emergency maternity home at Battlesden House;

- communications from Ministry of Home Security regarding: construction of basement shelter in Ampthill; blackout arrangements at Arlesey St.Peter Council School; Wardens' Post at Kempston Hoo Estate Office; Cleansing Station at Public Assistance Institution, Biggleswade; air raid sirens in Dunstable and Leighton Buzzard; public shelters at Pratt's premises, Leighton Buzzard; equipment for Rescue Parties, Cleansing Stations etc.; Air Raid Wardens' Post in garage at rear of 171-5 Tavistock Street, Bedford; air raid shelters on Harpur Trust property at rear of 10-14 Midland Road, Bedford;

- Air Raid Precautions equipment at Three Counties Hospital.

[ex W/ARPP 19]

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

acc. 6509

Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/52592fbf-5de2-43ab-b0d5-8e800c73751c/

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WW2 AR C

Air Raid Precautions, Committee Material

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Agenda Papers

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Agenda papers including, amongst other things: - assistance to military authorities;...