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Includes a list of materials transferred from the Pumping Station to the Housing Depot.

Includes correspondence regarding salvaged material, and a list of materials supplied to the Housing and Estates departments.

Includes papers describing Civil Defence operations in which safety precautions are necessary, and papers surrounding new weaponary, such as, 'balloon devices' in which the jelly, once ignited, can erupt over 20ft. Also includes new types of mine parachut

Contains information relating to training and the hiring of lecture rooms.

Letters and reports of the exercise

Includes papers regarding personal injuries and schemes for civilians, correspondence, Women's Voluntary Service roles in the scheme, insurance documents, papers regarding the Emergency Hospital Schemes and war damages correspondence.

Includes correspondence relating to civilian casualties and deaths and the protocols to be taken for reporting and burials. Some papers relate to temporary mortuary accomodation locations, volunteers for the cause, conversions of buildings into mortuaries

Correspondence file regarding civilian deaths.

The file primarily includes personal letters to Arthur Cooke - the York Civil Defence Officer. Also includes black and white photographs and a sheet of newspaper from 1940.

Pictures of the Head Wardens for York, and information on the equipment for wardens.

Includes information on air raid shelters and Civil Defence training.

Consists mainly of letters surrounding the removal of huts.

Documents showing the number of full-time paid civil defence wardens and reserve wardens, including posts, addresses and numbers of men and women.

Correspondence of the Chief Warden, Councillor Bunch, between 10th September 1939 and 16th November 1942.

Includes letters to and from the wardens and information relating to accidents.

Includes Civil Defence Warden's bulletins and general correspondence.

Includes Civil Defence Warden's bulletins, notes about air raid shelters and notes from Fire Guard staff.

Includes details of the deployment of equipment, financial papers and associated correspondence.

Includes diagrams and details of the scheme.

Includes details of industry meetings, correspondence and notes on businesses.

Includes details of a conference, as well as damage assessments, assistance and provision papers.

Includes details of reinforcement camps, schemes and air-raid precautions.

Includes details of the Combined Civil and Military Defence Scheme.

Contains correspondence about recruitment, first aid, gas attacks, and papers titled 'Key Points of National Importance'.

Contains papers about various types of bombs, aircraft and observations posts and associated correspondence.

Document showing the number of meetings held by the committee.

Includes papers relating to the work of the committee.

Includes papers relating to the work of the committee.

Includes papers relating to the work of the committee.

Includes papers relating to the work of the committee.

Also includes financial information.

Includes papers relating to the discontinuation of some Harrogate exchange circuits and alternative circuits to be used in Leeds telephone exchange in case of being put out of action, as well as papers discussing the discontinuation of North Eastern obser

Includes details of air raid precautions and papers relating to the quantities of voluntary staff available and allotments of personnel available in the war effort. Up to 50% of women in the ambulance services may also be employed on a whole-time basis in

Includes guidance notes for the enrolment of Civil Defence officers, personal details for possible recruitments and procedures.

Includes volunteer numbers surrounding laundry squads for protective and civilian clothing, Civil Defence charts showing the paid and unpaid workers for various establishment services, papers showing the various posts and addresses for wardens and bomb re

The A.R.P News magazines and A.R.P & A.F.S reviews span from 1938-1942. The magazines covers the publicity of the war and the most recent news and war developments according to the month it was issued. Other aspects include: articles, recruitment publicit

Contains correspondence regarding staffing, equipment, first aid, materials and purchases.

Contains correspondence regarding staffing, equipment, first aid, materials and purchases.

Contains correspondence regarding wardens' posts, installation of relay systems,the building of public shelters and the disposal of unexploded bombs. Also includes a newspaper article regarding homelessness.

Contains correspondence regarding materials and the building of shelters, wardens' posts, circulars and traffic.

Contains correspondence regarding training exercises, first aid, equipment, gas masks and depots.

Contains meeting minutes, correspondence, equipment papers and papers relating to the Civil Defence Warden.

Stored in an envelope.

Paperwork relating to Prime Cost Contracts including termination of contract.

Paperwork relating to Prime Cost Contracts including renewal of contract.

Includes the relocation of the homeless into hostels.

Includes German press extracts and notes on German Civil Defence.

Contains information regarding the recruitment of volunteer wardens, warden circulars and general maintenance of shelters.

Contains correspondence regarding air raid wardens.

Contains correspondence regarding public air raid shelters.

Contains correspondence regarding public air raid shelters.

Contains correspondence regarding public air raid shelters.

Contains correspondence regarding public air raid shelters.

How to protect yourselves from gas plus the effects of gas.

Contains information regarding the list of stables and correspondence on safety for animals.

Contains correspondence and information regarding the list of rest centres.

One poster shows a telegraphist in a wireless room ready to recieve signals. The other poster shows information relevant to signals for drivers and cyclists.

Includes correspondence surrounding the removal and reinstatment of a wall for access to install pumps for fire fighting purposes, supplementary water schemes and matters caused by the removal of the wall and laying of pipes.

Includes papers relating to the repair of fire prevention equipment such as fire hydrants and main water valves. Also includes some notes consider the reinbursements of repair work, financial arrangments for firemen and circumstances for paying war bonuse

The correspondence includes details of premises acquired in connection with the Auxiliary Fire Service and the claim for a grant for rent.

Includes lists of individuals to whom stirrup pumps have been issued by the Guildhall/are privately owned or have been issued for supplementary purposes for the fire services.

Parade orders for the National Fire Service Third Anniversary, North Eastern Regional.

Fire Force Commander agreements for the area of the British Sugar Corporation in York, schedule personnels, appliances and staff.

Correspondence includes details of paid staff for the Women's Voluntary Service, premises and finances.

Includes papers relating to Japanese money, a soldier's service pay book, a photograph of a Home Guard/soldier (presumably) parade, three general letters from the Home Guard and War Office to soldiers (depicting the Great War effort), a booklet of Great E

This file contains correspondence concerning the earmarking of premises for Civil Defence purposes and details of said premises.

Paperwork relating to accomodation clearance

This file contains correspondence relating to the earmarking of properties in York for use by the Civil Defence corps and details of said properties .

Index of circulars, as well as correspondence, recruitment, premises, and details of equipment for training.