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 files regarding access to water for fire fighting equipment, the repair of equipment including hydrants and mains valves, one fire watcher's log and attendance book, agreements regarding the British Sugar Corporation and parade ord
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.
Includes the ten year report, the knitting report and one correspondence file regarding the work of the service.
An official report of the work completed by the Women's Voluntary Service between 1938 and 1948.
Correspondence includes details of paid staff for the Women's Voluntary Service, premises and finances.
Knitting report
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
Includes accommodation clearance registers, papers regarding billeting, annual reports, papers relating to atomic warfare, civil defence handbooks, general preparations for a nuclear attack, papers relating to the British Association, circulars, York Civil Defence Association, Civil Defence committee minutes, civil protection, competitions, conference papers, papers regarding Control Centres, correspondence files of Arthur Cooke (Civil Defence officer), general correspondence files, demonstration and protest papers, papers regarding Civil Defence equipment, evacuations scheme, exercises and training courses, mass experiments, financial papers (including insurance files), papers relating to the Fire Service, emergency feeding plans, Home Defence papers and correspondence, Head Office files, hospital organisation files, papers relating to Civil Defence in industry and infrastructure, inspection files, membership lists, copies of the Civil Defence Acts, year books, copies of the Civil Defence Officers Journal, Ministry of Health papers, minutes of the Civil Defence committee, papers of the Association of Municipal Corporations, reports and pamphlets relating to the nuclear threat, papers regarding nuclear tests, observations papers, premises files, publicity and recruitment files, papers regarding Hungarian refugees in York, remembrance files, staff resignation and transfer files, papers relating to the Scientific Intelligence Officers and Sector Controllers, shelter files, siren installation, staff papers, technical reconnaisance papers, correspondence with the Town Clerk, papers regarding Civil Defence vehicles, warden's files, the role of the Women's Voluntary Service, and the role of the Yorkshire Yeomanry.
This file contains correspondence concerning the earmarking of premises for Civil Defence purposes and details of said premises.
Paperwork relating to accomodation clearance
Includes information about the movement of people out of York, or from individual buildings in the city.
Includes correspondence relevant to the revised accommodation clearance register.
This file contains correspondence relating to the earmarking of properties in York for use by the Civil Defence corps and details of said properties .
Files of circulars, memoranda and accompanying correspondence relating to the work of the Civil Defence Association in York. Also includes some indexes to circulars.
Index of circulars, as well as correspondence, recruitment, premises, and details of equipment for training.
Includes circulars relating to equipment, training, and the maintenance of existing air-raid shelters.
Includes circulars relating to vehicles, building work, training and publicity.
Includes papers relating to the role of Warden, training bulletins for ambulance staff, welfare, headquarters and wardens. Also includes papers relating to equipment and transport.
Includes circulars relating to air-raid shelters, building work, the fire service and equipment.
Includes a booklet entitled 'The control of Civil Defence Operations under fall-out conditions', fire service circulars and material relating to training.
Includes circulars relating to uniform, the fire service and training.
Includes circulars relating to building work, training and stocktaking.
Contains information regarding the Civil Defence Indusrial Circular, as well as a list of accommodation.
Includes circulars relating to training and scientific intelligence officers.
Volume with tabs covering the following topics: equipment and transport bulletins, industrial circulars and regional circulars. The rear pages of the volume include an index to Ministry of Health circulars and pages relating to recruitment.
Contains information regarding technical literature and training.
Includes information relating to training, correspondence, the training syllabus, sick pay scheme and St. Johns Ambulance. Also includes a letter regarding legislation.
Contains information regarding wardens, the fire service and training premises.
Includes a booklet of amendments, correspondence relating to training, papers relating to civil defence uniform, and information about accommodation.
Contains information regarding Civil Defence organisation, vehicles, training, and the fire service.
Includes circulars relating to training and equipment, and a syllabus for the Duke of Edinburghs award scheme.
Contains information regarding batteries for walkie talkies, training, Remembrance Sunday and equipment.
Includes circulars relating to the fire service, casualties union, the Duke of Edinburghs award scheme for girls, uniform and equipment.
Contains information relating to payments and travelling, training premises, the provision of technical literature and a fire service circular.
Large file of various circulars including one relating to the disbandment of the Civil Defence Association, with a letter from the Queen.
Index to circulars, including papers relating to training, recruitment, correspondence and a drawing for building a gas chamber.
Includes information about Civil Defence courses at York, and letters of nomination.
This file includes general correspondences between the Civil Defence Officer and individuals from the local area.
This file mostly consists of documents related to the Civil Defence circulars, between 1967-1968.
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.
Index of circulars, as well as correspondence, a diagram of a siren station and civil defence planning papers.
Includes an index, various circulars and associated correspondence.
Contains correspondence, circulars relating to training, and information about Remembrance Sunday.
Index to circulars, as well as correspondence, papers relating to sick pay, and papers relating to training.
Includes correspondence, papers relating to wireless training and helicopters (including images possibly taken from a book) and an appendix to circulars.
Includes reports, correspondence, the 'One in five scheme' and handbook on emergency welfare scheme.
Issue number 89.
Contains details relating to the scheme aiming to educate one fifth of the women in the country on the hazards of nuclear warfare.
Monthly Narrative reports from December 1959 to December 1960 by Dorothy Kenning. Also includes letters and documents about the 'One-in-five' scheme.
Also includes associated correspondence.
Monthly and some regional narrative reports.
File contains monthly narrative and regional reports, training and meeting correspondence and newsletters.
Also includes an annual report detailing the WVS change of name to the Women's 'Royal' Voluntary Service.
This file contains monthly narrative reports for the Yorkshire branch of the service
The second details narrative reports and correspondence relating to the Women's Volunteer Service.
This file includes monthly narrative reports from the Women's Volunteer Service and correspondence with the Civil Defence Officer.
Describes all the work of W.V.S during the month of December.
Also includes associated correspondence.
Also includes correspondence between Kenny and Cooke, the 'One in Five' course syllabus and applications for uniforms.
Also includes the W.V.S. bulletins.
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
File regading an officers weekend, itinerary, booklet entitled 'The Hydrogen Bomb', and booklet entitled 'Civil Defence is Common Sense'.
Includes the syllabus of advanced training for the Gold Star tests for Civil Defence volunteers, as well as test and Warden Studies committee meeting and programme papers.
Includes general correspondence, and questionnaires and replies containing members' details.
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
This file contains members' details and returned questionnaires - completed as applications for joining the Yorkshire branch of The Institute of Civil Defence.
Includes general administration files.
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
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
This file contains correspondence concerning the Civil Defence ambulance service and issues such as overtime pay.
Includes general administration files.
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.