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Civil Defence Circulars
Y/ORD/4/7/10/21 · File · 1963
Part of York Civic Archive

Includes information relating to training, correspondence, the training syllabus, sick pay scheme and St. Johns Ambulance. Also includes a letter regarding legislation.

Civil Defence Circulars
Y/ORD/4/7/10/23 · File · 1964
Part of York Civic Archive

Includes a booklet of amendments, correspondence relating to training, papers relating to civil defence uniform, and information about accommodation.

1964 surplus circulars
Y/ORD/4/7/10/24 · File · 1964
Part of York Civic Archive

Contains information regarding Civil Defence organisation, vehicles, training, and the fire service.

Civil Defence Circulars
Y/ORD/4/7/10/25 · File · 1965
Part of York Civic Archive

Includes circulars relating to training and equipment, and a syllabus for the Duke of Edinburghs award scheme.

Civil Defence Circulars
Y/ORD/4/7/10/26 · File · 1965
Part of York Civic Archive

Contains information regarding batteries for walkie talkies, training, Remembrance Sunday and equipment.

Civil Defence Circulars
Y/ORD/4/7/10/27 · File · 1966
Part of York Civic Archive

Includes circulars relating to the fire service, casualties union, the Duke of Edinburghs award scheme for girls, uniform and equipment.

Civil Defence Circulars
Y/ORD/4/7/10/28 · File · 1966
Part of York Civic Archive

Contains information relating to payments and travelling, training premises, the provision of technical literature and a fire service circular.

Civil Defence Circulars
Y/ORD/4/7/10/29 · File · 1967-1968
Part of York Civic Archive

Large file of various circulars including one relating to the disbandment of the Civil Defence Association, with a letter from the Queen.

Y/ORD/4/7/10/3 · File · 1950
Part of York Civic Archive

Index to circulars, including papers relating to training, recruitment, correspondence and a drawing for building a gas chamber.

Circular Letters
Y/ORD/4/7/10/31 · File · 1952
Part of York Civic Archive

This file includes general correspondences between the Civil Defence Officer and individuals from the local area.

Civil Defence Circulars
Y/ORD/4/7/10/33 · File · 1967-1971
Part of York Civic Archive

This file contains details and correspondence relating to government-issued Civil Defence Circulars. Topics include: the wartime control structure for Greater London and the nominated conveners for each region.

Civil Defence Circulars
Y/ORD/4/7/10/4 · File · 1951
Part of York Civic Archive

Index of circulars, as well as correspondence, a diagram of a siren station and civil defence planning papers.

Civil Defence Circulars
Y/ORD/4/7/10/7 · File · 1954
Part of York Civic Archive

Index to circulars, as well as correspondence, papers relating to sick pay, and papers relating to training.

Civil Defence Circulars
Y/ORD/4/7/10/9 · File · 1955
Part of York Civic Archive

Includes correspondence, papers relating to wireless training and helicopters (including images possibly taken from a book) and an appendix to circulars.

W.V.S. 'One-in-Five scheme'
Y/ORD/4/7/100/10 · File · 1958
Part of York Civic Archive

Contains details relating to the scheme aiming to educate one fifth of the women in the country on the hazards of nuclear warfare.

Women's Volunteer Service
Y/ORD/4/7/100/23 · File · 1952
Part of York Civic Archive

This file includes monthly narrative reports from the Women's Volunteer Service and correspondence with the Civil Defence Officer.

Y/ORD/4/7/100/9 · File · 1958
Part of York Civic Archive

File consists of monthly narrative reports for the Women's Volunteer Service for the Civil Defence. Paperwork also includes suggested contents for nursing chests, locations of badges to be worn, 'One in Five' scheme material, pamphlet material for protect

Y/ORD/4/7/103/1 · File · 1949-1950
Part of York Civic Archive

Correspondence relating to the establishment of the Civil Defence institute as a "professional body". Additionally, this file contains details on the institute's members (past and present), balance sheets and expenditure statements for 1949 and rules and

Ambulance: Admin
Y/ORD/4/7/104/1 · File · 1951
Part of York Civic Archive

This file contains general correspondence relating to the Civil Defence Ambulance Service as well as the service's progress reports from 1951, an agenda from Health Committee meetings and Ministry of Health Circulars (government policy) for the city of Y

Casualty Service: Admin
Y/ORD/4/7/104/2 · File · 1951
Part of York Civic Archive

This file contains documents on how York's casualty services (ambulance, first aid, hospital etc.) would be organised in the event of an emergency. Additionally, there is the usual correspondence relating to meetings surrounding the Civil Defence casualty

Ambulance Service
Y/ORD/4/7/104/3 · File · 1952
Part of York Civic Archive

This file contains correspondence concerning the Civil Defence ambulance service and issues such as overtime pay.

Police
Y/ORD/4/7/105/1 · File · 1951
Part of York Civic Archive

This file contains details relating to a suggested syllabus for lectures given by the police to civil defence volunteers and a list of police boxes and pillars in the city.

Police
Y/ORD/4/7/105/2 · File · 1952
Part of York Civic Archive

This file consists of a Home Office correspondence relating to Civil Defence (police) regulations in 1952.

Y/ORD/4/7/107 · File · 1951
Part of York Civic Archive

This file contains correspondence, engaging with Flaxton Rural District Counci, regarding issues such as Civil Defence instructors' courses.

British Red Cross Society
Y/ORD/4/7/108 · File · 1968
Part of York Civic Archive

This file consists of an invitation from the British Red Cross Society (York division) to the Civil Defence Officer and his response.

Blank forms
Y/ORD/4/7/109 · File · 1967
Part of York Civic Archive

This file contains blank conference/S.I.O logs and information on the expected impact of radioactive fall-out

Civil Defence Association
Y/ORD/4/7/11/10 · File · 1961
Part of York Civic Archive

Includes correspondence, committee meeting minutes, menu for the annual dinner, seating plan, childrens party list, and lists of income and expenditure.

Civil Defence Association
Y/ORD/4/7/11/14 · File · 1967
Part of York Civic Archive

Correspondence regarding social events. Also includes a transcript of the Sheriffs toast at the Civil Defence Dinner, balance sheet and committee meeting minutes.

Y/ORD/4/7/11/15 · File · 1968
Part of York Civic Archive

This file contains correspondence concerning York Civil Defence Association - specifically, meetings and the group's proposed constitution.

Civil Defence Association
Y/ORD/4/7/11/18 · File · 1963
Part of York Civic Archive

This file contains items and correspondence relating to the everyday running of the York Civil Defence Association - for example; committee minutes and accounts.

Civil Defence Association
Y/ORD/4/7/11/6 · File · 1954-1955
Part of York Civic Archive

Information about the Civil Defence Association annual dinners and other social activities, as well as expenditure and general meeting minutes.

Civil Defence Association
Y/ORD/4/7/11/9 · File · 1960
Part of York Civic Archive

Includes papers about the annual dinner, as well as menu, correspondence, receipt for ticket printing and copies of invitations.

Civil Defence
Y/ORD/4/7/111 · Item · 1940
Part of York Civic Archive

This book, C. W. Glover, was published in 1940 and explores various aspects of Civil Defence preparation.

Fission Fragments
Y/ORD/4/7/112 · File · 1961-1963
Part of York Civic Archive

This is the first five issues of a 'national journal for scientific intelligence officers', produced by The Scientific Advisers Branch of the Home Office. It contains information relating to the suspected impact of nuclear disaster.

British Railways
Y/ORD/4/7/113 · File · 1952
Part of York Civic Archive

This file contains correspondence between the Civil Defence Officer and a representative of British Railways, often related to Civil Defence training

Exhibition
Y/ORD/4/7/114 · File · 1952
Part of York Civic Archive

This file contains advertisements for the Civil Defence exhibition and correspondence relating to this event.