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RefNoKCC2/D/CD/1/97
AltRefNoFile no. 51
TitleReport centres
DescriptionReport centres, use of private telephone lines. Home Office ARP department circular No. 49/1939 – Report and control centres. Outline of accommodation, personnel and telephone requirements. Circular letter from ARP officer to divisional directors – Report centres, staff, messengers and communications cars. Letter from clerk of the county council to Home Office with list of telephones and suggested number of phones at various ARP posts. Correspondence relating to setting up of report centres and allocation of buildings, particularly Fletton. Letter re report centre staff. Home Office letter dated 26 April 1939 re report and control centre telephones. Correspondence re messengers. Circular to sub-controllers dated 6 February 1940. Notes on functions and duties of report centres. WVS volunteers for report centres, etc. Guarding report and control centres. Correspondence re alternative ARP control centres. Medical men at air raid incidents. List of report centres, areas controlled and sub-controllers. ARP report centre, 16 Market Place, St Neots. (Letter to Liberal Club). Correspondence re ARP report centre, St Neots. Correspondence re Huntingdon report centre. Circular letter from Eastern region office – Dissemination of messages by ‘snowball’, and correspondence. Eastern regional circular – Manning of alternative control centres.
DateFebruary 1939-April 1945
CreatorNameHuntingdonshire County Council
RepositoryHuntingdonshire Archives
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