Letters and reports of the exercise
Includes correspondence regarding the Personal Injuries (Civilians) Scheme, protocols for civilian deaths, lists of air raid casualties and mortuary protocols.
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.
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.
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.
The booklet details what happened to the town during the war.
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.
Contact details of permits issued by the A.R.P headquarters. Includes names, addresses and the services the individuals provide are recorded.
From 1942 this committee is called the Civil Defence committee.
Document showing the number of meetings held by the committee.
The papers give the details of the new General Assisstant and the new Deputy A.R.P. Officer.
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.
The contacts book contains names and addresses of the engineering services personnel in 1945. Other details also include the depot in which individuals are located and the duties they have been allocated.
The chart consists of the City of York hierarchal establishment in reference to the war effort. The chart begins with the Prime Minister and governmental sectors, spanning through the hospital and medical services towards the various emergency services th
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
Correspondence relating to staffing, equipment, first aid materials, purchases, wardens' posts, the installation of relay systems, building of public shelters, disposal of unexploded bombs, gas masks and supply depots.
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.
Includes paperwork relating to Prime Cost Contracts.
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.
The circular relates to air raid precautions, first aid posts and ambulance services.
Includes German press extracts and notes on German Civil Defence.
Includes correspondence and associated papers regarding the recruitment of volunteer wardens, air raid wardens and public air raid shelters.
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.
The plan includes details of the types of bombs which fell, and precisely where they fell.
Copy of detailed map of Clifton Airfield, including all the buildings on site. Map was classified as a secret drawing in 1945 but this status was downgraded in January1958.
Includes papers relating to potential gas attacks, bomb threats, air raid precautions for animals, emergency feeding and rest centres and posters produced by the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents.
How to protect yourselves from gas plus the effects of gas.
Small booklet from the Chief Warden containing the details of emergency services in York in case of a bomb alert. Details include: Warden contacts and posts, key city telephone numbers such as the public library and treasurer's office, bomb reconnaissance
Contains information regarding the list of stables and correspondence on safety for animals.
Information on how to care for the homeless from the Ministry of Health.
Contains correspondence and information regarding the list of rest centres.