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Agenda papers including, amongst other things: - communications from Ministry of...
Catalogue reference: WW2 AR C/2/69
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- WW2 AR C/2/69
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Date (When the record was created)
- 16 Oct 1940
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Description (What the record is about)
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Agenda papers including, amongst other things:
- communications from Ministry of Home Security regarding: pay of wholetime volunteers;
- communications from Senior Regional Officer regarding: remote control of sirens; annual leave for volunteers; parachute mines; disposal of unexploded parachute mines; notification and recording of air raid; spotters on factory buildings; auxiliary petrol tanks jettisoned from German aircraft; defences against air raids; provision of Air Raid Precautions Office and Store at Girls Modern School, Bedford; use of 13 Broadway, Bedford as public shelter; public shelters in Cranfield; domestic surface shelters in Biggleswade and Bedford;
- communications from Ministry of Health regarding: evacuation of mothers and children; purity of water supplies; billeting of mothers before and after confinement; provision of Ivy Leaf Club, Langford as treatment room for patients of Mobile Unit; use of Air Raid Precautions ambulances for non Civil Defence purposes;
- numbers of air raid casualties;
- emergency plans by London Branch of Musicians' Union on emergency plans to provide entertainment for the people and work for unemployed musicians;
- air raid shelters near railway arches;
- agitation for public air raid shelters in Aspley Guise.
[ex W/ARPP 25]
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- Bedfordshire Archives & Records Service
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Language (The language of the record)
- English
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Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
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acc. 6515
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/747d633a-4644-4d58-958f-269c815e55c3/
Series information
WW2 AR C
Air Raid Precautions, Committee Material
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This record is held at Bedfordshire Archives & Records Service
Within the fonds: WW2
WAR RECORDS - WORLD WAR TWO
Within the sub-fonds: WW2 AR
Air Raids & Air Raid Precautions
Within the series: WW2 AR C
Air Raid Precautions, Committee Material
Within the sub-series: WW2 AR C/2
Agenda Papers
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Agenda papers including, amongst other things: - communications from Ministry of...