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.
Also includes complaints about completed repairs and a damage report.
Includes complaints about completed repairs.
Reports on the air raid of 11th August 1940.
Also includes updates on working hours for repair work, lists of work outstanding and requests for repairs.
Also includes complaints about jobs done incorrectly and a request for a survey report.
Also includes order receipts and requests for materials.
Reports on the air raid in December 1942, as well as details of the areas affected and length of attack.
Includes war damage report pink forms.
Reports on raids outside of York, including correspondence and personal statements by wardens.
Reports on September 24th 1942 bombing of York.
Reports on 2nd August 1942 bombing and correspondence regarding it.
Information relating to the casualties and damage caused by air raid.
Also includes air raid reports.
Index for files on the war damage.
Also includes lists of repairs still to do.
Includes papers relating to the stockpiling of commoditites in York, such as - sugar, canned goods, tea, cheese, jam and condensed milk. Also includes charts showing the hierarchal A.R.P structure, information relating to the protocol for casualties for b
Includes lists of workers and where they were sent, as well as requests for labourers.
Primarily concerns a list of tarpaulins issued for war damage and their return dates.
Correspondence regarding repairs following raids from 1st July to 27th October.
Correspondence regarding repairs following the raid from 29th April to 30th May.
Includes reports on the 3 April 1941 bombing.
Includes reports on the bombing of 16 January 1941 bombing, as well as reports on the civil defence response and of damage done by the bombing.
Includes reports on the 2 January 1941 bombing, as well as a report on the damage done by the bombs.
Files produced by the Ministry of Health, containing general correspondence about the air-raid protections act, discussions about equipment, instructions for storing supplies, details for rates of pay, and papers relating to various emergency hospital sch
Also includes correspondence regarding food for workmen.
Appendix to the Civil Defence Handbook.
Outlines the financial situation of the Civil Defence in York in 1939.
Two editions - one from May 1902 and one from 1908.
The file was compiled in relation to the Ministry of Health.