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Agenda papers including, amongst other things: - communications with Minister of...

Catalogue reference: WW2 AR C/2/33

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Reference
WW2 AR C/2/33
Date
21 Feb 1940
Description

Agenda papers including, amongst other things:

- communications with Minister of Home Security regarding: Air Raid Precautions Training Manual No.1; notes on construction, maintenance and replacement of sandbag revetments; protection of windows in commercial and industrial buildings; arsine; position of Local Authority employees in Rescue Party Service;

- communications with Ministry of Health regarding: Clophill Sick Bay; Government Evacuation Scheme; First Aid Post at Kempston Church Schoolroom; requisitioning and plans for Cleansing Station at The Lawns, Biggleswade;

- use of household shelters for children attending school;

- communications from Senior Regional Officer regarding: survey of air raid shelter accommodation; replacement of sandbag wall at Silver Jubilee School, Bedford; high explosive and incendiary bomb stores at Leighton Buzzard and Dunstable; high explosive and incendiary bomb training hut in Bedford Borough;

- first aid equipment for First Aid Party depots;

- testing of air raid sirens;

- fixed gas chamber, East Bedfordshire Area;

- basement shelters in Biggleswade;

- discontent of Air Raid Precautions service at Sundon.

[ex W/ARPP 15]

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

acc. 6505

Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/a00395e1-c88a-4832-9191-f9b9965b1fed/

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WW2 AR C

Air Raid Precautions, Committee Material

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Agenda papers including, amongst other things: - communications with Minister of...