Details recorded include: name and address of owner or agent; number of families in the house; name of responsible tenant; names of other tenants or sub-tenants; number of persons normally sleeping in rooms; size and use of rooms; and number of persons allowed per room. Note that the information recorded varies from sheet to sheet.
General administrative papers concerning clearance areas. Includes correspondence; committee papers; reports; summaries; and housing programme papers.
Clearance papers for specific slum clearance programmes in York.
Includes files relating to the York experiment, the Second York experiment and the experiment regarding the conservation of food.
Editions of the Civil Defence Officers journal.
Includes papers relating to Washington Hall (the Home Office training centre in Lancashire) and York Mansion House.
Includes operational plan, city of York map and a map showing the city and sector boundaries.
Includes record cards, payment information, files and pamphlets
Includes war books and one index to war book files.
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 relating to excursions by the British Association, as well as an annual meeting programme for 1959.
Includes papers relating to Civil Defence regional conferences, as well as the controllers designate conference. Also includes lists of attendees and minutes.
General correspondence files relating to the work of the Civil Defence organisation, covering a wide variety of topics. See individual descriptions for more detailed information about contents.
Includes briefs and supplementary information relating to various exercises carried out by the Civil Defence Association in the York area.
Includes correspondence and associated papers regarding the recruitment of volunteer wardens, air raid wardens and public air raid shelters.