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Evacuation & Billeting
Y/ORD/4/7/35/21 · File · 1950-1967
Part of York Civic Archive

This file contains correspondence relating to evacuation and billeting. There is a document issued by the Ministry of Housing and Local Government regarding the Civil Defence dispersal scheme and evacuation and care for the homeless.

Welfare
Y/ORD/4/7/35/20 · File · 1952
Part of York Civic Archive

This file includes information on the Civil Defence evacuation scheme (reception and billeting of evacuees) and welfare training.

Distribution lists
Y/ORD/4/7/35/2 · File · 1950
Part of York Civic Archive

Contains correspondence regarding distribution lists for 'local information' pamphlets.

Control Centres
Y/ORD/4/7/35/19 · File · 1952
Part of York Civic Archive

This file contains correspondence concerning telephone centres and information such as preliminary reports on Civil Defence contorl centres.

Welfare
Y/ORD/4/7/35/18 · File · 1952
Part of York Civic Archive

This file contains correspondence concerning issues such as shelter management, hygiene and training.

Sirens
Y/ORD/4/7/35/16 · File · 1951-1952
Part of York Civic Archive

This file contains information on prospective locations for York's air raid sirens

Planning
Y/ORD/4/7/35/15 · File · 1951-1952
Part of York Civic Archive

This file contains information on the strength of York's Civil Defence corps and the Civil Defence 'crash' plan.

Evacuation & Billeting
Y/ORD/4/7/35/13 · File · 1951-1952
Part of York Civic Archive

This file contains correspondence concerning the evacuation scheme and the prospect of York as a 'reception' area.

Emergency Planning
Y/ORD/4/7/35/12 · File · 1968
Part of York Civic Archive

This file consists of correspondence relating to the abandonment of the emergency planning strategy of using teachers and schools in the event of an emergency.

Rest Centres
Y/ORD/4/7/35/11 · File · 1952
Part of York Civic Archive

This file contains equipment lists and information on purchases for rest centres.

Disaster Management
Y/ORD/4/7/35/10 · File · 1967-1968
Part of York Civic Archive

This file contains general correspondence relating to flooding and the management of disasters. This also includes the booklet 'Management Techniques: Disaster Managament'.

Civil Defence in Industry
Y/ORD/4/7/34/12 · File · 1951
Part of York Civic Archive

This file contains correspondence and details relating to industrial firms connected with Civil Defence through training, expressed interest etc. Also contained is a copy of a 1951 Civil Defence Circular regarding industry and commerce.

National Hospitals Service
Y/ORD/4/7/33/36 · File · 1952
Part of York Civic Archive

This file contains correspondence concerning hospital and first aid services and agendas from meetings of the National Hospital Service Reserve.

Y/ORD/4/7/33/26 · File · 19 June 1965-20 June 1965
Part of York Civic Archive

Arrangements and match times for the Minister's Cup competition regional final. Also includes papers relating to a training exercise in a hospital ward, seating arrangements, travel expenses, competition timings, feeding plan, and a map of Clifton Hospita

Hospital Civil Defence Study
Y/ORD/4/7/33/25 · File · 9 March 1965
Part of York Civic Archive

Includes a chain of control organisation and mobilisation of the Civil Defence Corps. Also includes hospital war plans for survival including a report on distribution.

Y/ORD/4/7/33/14 · File · 1958
Part of York Civic Archive

Paperwork relating to the Civil Defence's Forward Medical Aid Unit demonstrations, including map layouts for Imphal Barracks and demonstration plans for mass casualities in a real life catastrophe. Also includes notes of a Civil Defence meeting for the pu

Head Office Exercises.
Y/ORD/4/7/32/9 · File · 1958
Part of York Civic Archive

File contains exercise breakdowns and timetables for operation "Dado" on the 26th October 1958; the satisfactory reports on their completion and the conference and events planning. Paperwork relates to the instructions for various emergency services and p