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Items relating to canvassing for recruitment for Civil Defence.

Areas to be canvassed

Correspondence regarding recruitment and numbers of members of the Civil Defence Corps.

Includes a copy of the Civil Defence Handbook and correspondence regarding it. Also includes correspondence between the Civil Defence officer and Bastiste Publications about the Civil Defence Handbook, and papers regarding Operational Control of Civil Def

Recruitment applications and letters about canvassing.

Items related to wedding of H.R.H The Duke of Kent at York Minster, including correspondence, plans for lost children, a map of York showing the route of the royal party and a communication network plan.

Includes notes on the 'Neutron' bomb, letters regarding the Civil Defence 'crash' plan, and a letter from the British Red Cross Society regarding flood relief.

Contains correspondence relating to disaster planning.

List of contents of boxes belonging to the Civil Defence Association.

Also includes a covering letter.

Includes information about road control after a heavy attack.

Discussion and memorandum about the Gold Star Award and the Gold Badge Award.

Includes diagrams of said instruments. Also includes a report on the effects of radiation on the human system following the ingestion of food contaminated by atomic explosions.

Narrative explaining the dangers surrounding fallout from a nuclear explosion and the preventions that could be installed to increase chances of survival. The booklet also contains breakdowns of instructions to be followed during a nuclear attack and the

Includes correspondence for building works, papers regarding the organisation of posts, standing orders and papers about major accidents.

Includes correspondence regarding Hungarian refugees and information on where they live.

Contains information regarding the 12 Kensal Rise flat in relation to the York Hungarian relief committee.

Contains correspondence regarding the Hungarian relief committee.

Contains correspondence regarding building work carried out in the homes of refugees.

Includes figures for income/expenditure for Hungarian refugees, letters and receipts to the Eastern Electricity Board.

Includes correspondence requesting open cheques, 1959.

Correspondence regarding refugees and accomodation problems.

Includes correspondence regarding the maintenance of refugee accommodation.

Contains correspondence on rememberance Sunday, lighting, employment of deaf people, circular forms and training.

Includes correspondence, copy of the British Legion Journal dated November 1961 and strength reports.

The commemoration service was for the victory in the Battle of Britain 1940. Includes lists of units attending and programme for the service.

Plan for the remembrance service at the city memorial cross, due to take place on 13 November 1966.

File relating to staff and volunteer resignations.

Correspondence regarding resignations and tranfers of civil defence volunteers.

Resignation letters and equipment returned to Civil Defence.

Includes codes for nuclear attack, list of map symbols, and amount of fallout.

Includes codes for nuclear attack, list of map symbols, and amount of fallout.

Correspondence regarding meetings.

Correspondence regarding training courses.

Civil Defence Circular no. 3/70 detailing Scientific Intelligence officers not in York.

Letter about the Scientific Intelligence Officer Study at the Civil Defence School. Also includes a report on the role of police in war, and effects of radioactivity on animals and crops.

The notes concern building protection against gamma radiation fallout.

Scientific Intelligence Officers Part III Operational Training Course (Including Amendments Nos. 1 and 2. Reprinted edition, not revised.

Includes information on accounts.

This file includes details of the 'protective factor' of York Hospital in the event of a disaster situation and correspondence relating to subjects such as - courses; training programs and meetings.

Scientific Intelligence Officers Part III Operational Training Course (Including Amendments Nos. 1 and 2. Reprinted edition, not revised.

Includes a description of the Civil Defence command structure, and of fallout from a nuclear weapon. Also inclues an assessment of the protection afforded by buildings against gamma radiation from fallout (Second Edition), and fallout predictions.

Graphs showing radiation penetration through a wall. Description of Civil Defence command structure. Description of fallout from a nuclear weapon. Assessment of the protection afforded by buildings against gamma radiation from fallout, Second Edition. Fal

Includes a record of amendments, description of Civil Defence command structure, description of fallout from a nuclear weapon, assessment of the protection afforded by buildings against gamma radiation from fallout (Second Edition) and fallout predictions

Includes general information about the blast effects of a bomb, radiation effects, and fallout.

Correspondence regarding working as a sector controller. Includes a Field Cable training letter.

2 copies.

Correspondence relating to the installation of a wireless station at the companies Water Tower in Siward's How, York. Also included are technical requirements, approval council paperwork, expenditure lists and an extract from the minutes of the Civil Defe

Correspondence for a Civil Defence telephone preference scheme which in emergencies, essential telephone lines are safeguarded. Some lists are included in the file containing emergency department and business telephone numbers and which would be included

Includes details on the collection of Anderson and Morrison shelters (and the integration of Polish forces).

This file is currently missing

Includes Civil Defence committee meeting minutes and correspondence relating to shelter surveys, policies, numbers and associated circulars.

Includes a 1951 survey about existing shelters and 1954 correspondence regarding the survey.

Also includes information about what has happened to them since the war.

Paperwork relating to the construction of a Communual Fallout Shelter, including the costs of emergency supplies/food/first aid. Meeting minutes and discussion agendas are included in the file aswell as shelter plans and precautions for the survival durin

This file contains information on a list of premises - classed as Civil Defence structures. Similarly, this file also contains the city of York's Civil Defence 'Public and Communal Shelter Accommodation' list and correspondence/reports relating to York's

This file contains correspondence concerning prospective locations for air raid shelters in York and the second stage shelter survey.

Includes a list of air raid shelters with type, capacity, location and remarks.

Correspondence regarding whistle tests, air raid siren heaters, and a Civil Defence warning system.

Includes payment details/other information on the competition

Contains correspondence relating to finding Mr. Lacey work after the disbandment of the C.D corps and other long term compensation for those working for civil defence.

This file contains correspondence relating to the appointment of staff in the Civil Defence, the opening of applications for various staff roles and some information regarding shelter surveys, sickness benefits and provisions for Class 'Z' reservists.

This bundle contains three leaflets respectively entitled: 'The Redundancy Payments Scheme', 'Your Rights to Compensation' and 'The London Government Compensation Regulations (1964)'.

This file contains correspondence regarding applications and vacancies in the Civil Defence corps.

Within this file there are correspondence relating to Civil Defence staff.

This file contains York's Civil Defence corps accident book in which to record the individual's personal information and details of their accident.

This file contains information on the programmes, conferences and studies of the Civil Defence staff colleges.

This file includes correspondence between York's Civil Defence officer and local volunteers and general information specifically for volunteers.

This file consists solely of a letter relating to the Civil Defence volunteer's travelling expenses.

This file relates to completed Civil Defence enrolment forms