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Archival description
Air raid reports
Y/ORD/4/6/12/3 · File · 1940
Part of York Civic Archive

Reports on raids outside of York, including correspondence and personal statements by wardens.

Reglazing of shop windows
Y/ORD/4/6/12/48 · File · 1943-1946
Part of York Civic Archive

Includes correspondence regarding orders for work, requests for labour, quotes and estimates for further repairs.

War damage claims
Y/ORD/4/6/12/49 · File · 1943-1958
Part of York Civic Archive

Includes papers relating to the official War Damage and Housing Acts and correspondence relating to buildings destroyed or damaged for which claims are being made for.

Halifax Bomber crash in York
Y/ORD/4/6/13 · Sub-series · 1945
Part of York Civic Archive

Includes correspondence files regarding the crash, as well as newspaper clippings and official casualty lists. The bomber crasher in Nunthorpe Grove.

Salvaged materials
Y/ORD/4/6/14 · Sub-series · 1944-1945
Part of York Civic Archive

Includes a list of materials transferred from the Pumping Station to the Housing Depot, and correspondence regarding salvaged materials.

Salvaged war damage file
Y/ORD/4/6/14/2 · File · 1944-1945
Part of York Civic Archive

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

Staff registers
Y/ORD/4/6/15 · Sub-series · 1940-1945
Part of York Civic Archive

Staff registers including salary details and length of time served with the York Corporation. The volumes primarily cover the Town Clerk's Office.

Staff Register
Y/ORD/4/6/15/1 · Item · 1940-1945
Part of York Civic Archive

Staff register for the city. Includes names, salary and the years worked there. Some members of staff were in post prior to 1939.

Training exercises
Y/ORD/4/6/16 · Sub-series · 1939-1944
Part of York Civic Archive

Includes electrical and radio notes for wireless operators, training reports, correspondence regarding enemy weaponry, premises papers and details of exercise 'Leap'.

Y/ORD/4/6/16/3 · File · 1940-1944
Part of York Civic Archive

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

Premises papers
Y/ORD/4/6/16/4 · File · 1941-1945
Part of York Civic Archive

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

Casualties
Y/ORD/4/6/17 · Sub-series · 1939-1948
Part of York Civic Archive

Includes correspondence regarding the Personal Injuries (Civilians) Scheme, protocols for civilian deaths, lists of air raid casualties and mortuary protocols.

Y/ORD/4/6/17/1 · File · 1939-1946
Part of York Civic Archive

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.

Protocol for civilian deaths
Y/ORD/4/6/17/2 · File · 1939-1948
Part of York Civic Archive

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

Civil Defence Wardens
Y/ORD/4/6/2 · Sub-series · 1938-December 1945
Part of York Civic Archive

Includes pictures of the Head Wardens for York, Chief Warden's correspondence, Chief Warden's circulars and information about the numbers of paid and unpaid wardens.

Wardens
Y/ORD/4/6/2/1 · File · 1940-1942
Part of York Civic Archive

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