Contains information regarding the list of stables and correspondence on safety for animals.
How to protect yourselves from gas plus the effects of gas.
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.
Contains correspondence regarding air raid wardens.
Contains information regarding the recruitment of volunteer wardens, warden circulars and general maintenance of shelters.
Includes German press extracts and notes on German Civil Defence.
Includes the relocation of the homeless into hostels.
Paperwork relating to Prime Cost Contracts including renewal of contract.
Paperwork relating to Prime Cost Contracts including termination of contract.
Stored in an envelope.
Contains meeting minutes, correspondence, equipment papers and papers relating to the Civil Defence Warden.
Contains correspondence regarding training exercises, first aid, equipment, gas masks and depots.
Contains correspondence regarding materials and the building of shelters, wardens' posts, circulars and traffic.
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 staffing, equipment, first aid, materials and purchases.
Contains correspondence regarding staffing, equipment, first aid, materials and purchases.
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
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
Includes guidance notes for the enrolment of Civil Defence officers, personal details for possible recruitments and procedures.
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 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
Also includes financial information.
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.
Document showing the number of meetings held by the committee.
Contains papers about various types of bombs, aircraft and observations posts and associated correspondence.
Contains correspondence about recruitment, first aid, gas attacks, and papers titled 'Key Points of National Importance'.
Includes details of the Combined Civil and Military Defence Scheme.
Includes details of reinforcement camps, schemes and air-raid precautions.
Includes details of a conference, as well as damage assessments, assistance and provision papers.
Includes details of industry meetings, correspondence and notes on businesses.
Includes diagrams and details of the scheme.
Includes details of the deployment of equipment, financial papers and associated correspondence.
Includes Civil Defence Warden's bulletins, notes about air raid shelters and notes from Fire Guard staff.
Includes Civil Defence Warden's bulletins and general correspondence.
Includes letters to and from the wardens and information relating to accidents.
Correspondence of the Chief Warden, Councillor Bunch, between 10th September 1939 and 16th November 1942.
Documents showing the number of full-time paid civil defence wardens and reserve wardens, including posts, addresses and numbers of men and women.
Consists mainly of letters surrounding the removal of huts.
Includes information on air raid shelters and Civil Defence training.
Pictures of the Head Wardens for York, and information on the equipment for wardens.
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.
Correspondence file regarding civilian deaths.
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
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.
Letters and reports of the exercise
Contains information relating to training and the hiring of lecture rooms.
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
Includes correspondence regarding salvaged material, and a list of materials supplied to the Housing and Estates departments.
Includes a list of materials transferred from the Pumping Station to the Housing Depot.
Correspondence file regarding air raids, canteens, vehicles and damages.
Explanatory Pamphlets and papers surrounding the War Damage Act of 1941 and other official documents.
Reports on the air raid of 15 November 1940, as well as a casualty report.
Reports on the air raid of November 1940.
Information on the impact and location of damage to the city of York in the early years of the Second World War.
Reports of the October 1940 air raid and of other similar raids.
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.
Includes correspondence regarding orders for work, requests for labour, quotes and estimates for further repairs.
Includes correspondence regarding war damage from 4 October 1943 to 20 June 1946.
Includes a Demolition, Clearance and Post-Raid Salvage consolidating circular.