Includes payment details/other information on the competition
Correspondence regarding whistle tests, air raid siren heaters, and a Civil Defence warning system.
Includes a list of air raid shelters with type, capacity, location and remarks.
This file contains correspondence concerning prospective locations for air raid shelters in York and the second stage shelter survey.
This file contains information on a list of premises - classed as Civil Defence structures. Similarly, this file also contains the city of York's Civil Defence 'Public and Communal Shelter Accommodation' list and correspondence/reports relating to York's
Paperwork relating to the construction of a Communual Fallout Shelter, including the costs of emergency supplies/food/first aid. Meeting minutes and discussion agendas are included in the file aswell as shelter plans and precautions for the survival durin
Also includes information about what has happened to them since the war.
Includes a 1951 survey about existing shelters and 1954 correspondence regarding the survey.
Includes Civil Defence committee meeting minutes and correspondence relating to shelter surveys, policies, numbers and associated circulars.
This file is currently missing
Includes details on the collection of Anderson and Morrison shelters (and the integration of Polish forces).
Correspondence for a Civil Defence telephone preference scheme which in emergencies, essential telephone lines are safeguarded. Some lists are included in the file containing emergency department and business telephone numbers and which would be included
Correspondence relating to the installation of a wireless station at the companies Water Tower in Siward's How, York. Also included are technical requirements, approval council paperwork, expenditure lists and an extract from the minutes of the Civil Defe
2 copies.
Correspondence regarding working as a sector controller. Includes a Field Cable training letter.
Includes general information about the blast effects of a bomb, radiation effects, and fallout.
Includes a record of amendments, description of Civil Defence command structure, description of fallout from a nuclear weapon, assessment of the protection afforded by buildings against gamma radiation from fallout (Second Edition) and fallout predictions
Graphs showing radiation penetration through a wall. Description of Civil Defence command structure. Description of fallout from a nuclear weapon. Assessment of the protection afforded by buildings against gamma radiation from fallout, Second Edition. Fal
Includes a description of the Civil Defence command structure, and of fallout from a nuclear weapon. Also inclues an assessment of the protection afforded by buildings against gamma radiation from fallout (Second Edition), and fallout predictions.
Scientific Intelligence Officers Part III Operational Training Course (Including Amendments Nos. 1 and 2. Reprinted edition, not revised.
This file includes details of the 'protective factor' of York Hospital in the event of a disaster situation and correspondence relating to subjects such as - courses; training programs and meetings.
Includes information on accounts.
Scientific Intelligence Officers Part III Operational Training Course (Including Amendments Nos. 1 and 2. Reprinted edition, not revised.
The notes concern building protection against gamma radiation fallout.
Letter about the Scientific Intelligence Officer Study at the Civil Defence School. Also includes a report on the role of police in war, and effects of radioactivity on animals and crops.
Civil Defence Circular no. 3/70 detailing Scientific Intelligence officers not in York.
Correspondence regarding training courses.
Correspondence regarding meetings.
Includes codes for nuclear attack, list of map symbols, and amount of fallout.
Includes codes for nuclear attack, list of map symbols, and amount of fallout.
Resignation letters and equipment returned to Civil Defence.
Correspondence regarding resignations and tranfers of civil defence volunteers.
File relating to staff and volunteer resignations.
Plan for the remembrance service at the city memorial cross, due to take place on 13 November 1966.
The commemoration service was for the victory in the Battle of Britain 1940. Includes lists of units attending and programme for the service.
Includes correspondence, copy of the British Legion Journal dated November 1961 and strength reports.
Contains correspondence on rememberance Sunday, lighting, employment of deaf people, circular forms and training.
Includes correspondence regarding the maintenance of refugee accommodation.
Correspondence regarding refugees and accomodation problems.
Includes correspondence requesting open cheques, 1959.
Includes figures for income/expenditure for Hungarian refugees, letters and receipts to the Eastern Electricity Board.
Contains correspondence regarding building work carried out in the homes of refugees.
Contains correspondence regarding the Hungarian relief committee.
Contains information regarding the 12 Kensal Rise flat in relation to the York Hungarian relief committee.
Includes correspondence regarding Hungarian refugees and information on where they live.
Includes correspondence for building works, papers regarding the organisation of posts, standing orders and papers about major accidents.
Narrative explaining the dangers surrounding fallout from a nuclear explosion and the preventions that could be installed to increase chances of survival. The booklet also contains breakdowns of instructions to be followed during a nuclear attack and the
Includes diagrams of said instruments. Also includes a report on the effects of radiation on the human system following the ingestion of food contaminated by atomic explosions.
Discussion and memorandum about the Gold Star Award and the Gold Badge Award.
Includes information about road control after a heavy attack.
Also includes a covering letter.
List of contents of boxes belonging to the Civil Defence Association.
Contains correspondence relating to disaster planning.
Includes notes on the 'Neutron' bomb, letters regarding the Civil Defence 'crash' plan, and a letter from the British Red Cross Society regarding flood relief.
Items related to wedding of H.R.H The Duke of Kent at York Minster, including correspondence, plans for lost children, a map of York showing the route of the royal party and a communication network plan.
Recruitment applications and letters about canvassing.
Includes a copy of the Civil Defence Handbook and correspondence regarding it. Also includes correspondence between the Civil Defence officer and Bastiste Publications about the Civil Defence Handbook, and papers regarding Operational Control of Civil Def
Correspondence regarding recruitment and numbers of members of the Civil Defence Corps.
Areas to be canvassed
Items relating to canvassing for recruitment for Civil Defence.
Information relating to Recruitment and Publicity of Civil Defence volunteers.
Information relating to recruitment and first aid instruction.
Includes correspondence regarding a publicity campaign of home defence and recruiting. Also contains a newspaper cutting.