Agenda papers including, amongst other things: - communications from Senior Regional...

Agenda papers including, amongst other things:

- communications from Senior Regional Officer regarding: use of cleansing stations by military for bathing; use of Methodist Church Schoolroom, Cauldwell Street, Bedford as a First Aid Party Depot; pilfering of electric light bulbs in Bedford Borough public shelters; flares used by Luftwaffe; disposal of unexploded parachute mines; approximate number of bombing incidents in region [199 in Bedfordshire from Sep 1940 - Feb 1941]; proposal to split Central Area; Wardens' Post at The Barns, High Street, Kempston; erection of twelve domestic surface shelters at Yielden; RAF decoy sites;

- communications from Ministry of Health regarding: equipment for Medical Aid Posts in public shelters; requisitioning of premises for use as evacuee reception centres; Civil Nursing Reserve; convalescent homes set up by Joint War Organisation of British Red Cross Society & Order of St.John; rules for public shelters in Bedford and

- Dunstable; Air Raid Precautions at Bromham Colony;

- public shelters on Bank Buildings site, Bedford;

- public shelters on St.Peter's Green and at Bedford Modern School;

- co-operation between Air Raid Precautions services and Home Guard;

- First Aid Cleansing Post at Silver Jubilee School gymnasium, Bedford;

- homeless persons in Bedford;

- public shelters in Ram Yard, Cauldwell Street, Bedford;

- communications from Ministry of Home Security regarding: reserves of Air Raid Precautions equipment; air raid warning messages; practice incendiary bombs;

- blackout at Kempston Up End School;

- fire-fighting at county court houses;

- Wardens' Post at 129 High Street North, Dunstable;

- Park Farm, Dunstable - use as a cleaning centre;

- accommodation for refugees from air attack.

[ex W/ARPP 31]

acc. 6521