| Description | Bundle of Prescot Urban District Council papers and correspondence relating to Air Raid Precautions. Includes: correspondence with local employers regarding time off for employees undertaking Civil Defence volunteering, claims for pay lost, and release of personnel during Air Raid Warnings, including correspondence with the Royal Ordnance Factory (R.O.F.), Kirkby, British Insulated Cables, Ltd., Tyrers Ltd., C. Tinling & Co., Northern Publishing Co. Ltd., Liverpool, and others; correspondence with the Under Secretary of State regarding the staffing of the Auxiliary Fire Service; blank copies of Loss of Wages Occasioned by Service as A.R.P. Volunteer claim certificates; correspondence with Lancashire County Council, Air Raid Precautions Department; correspondence with the Home Office (Fire Brigades Division); reports of meetings concerning allowances to personnel in Rescue and Demolition Perties, staffing of Report Centre, and construction of public air raid shelters, communal domestic shelters and Anderson garden shelters (3rd and 4th December, 1940); Home Security government circulars; correspondence with Huyton-with-Roby Urban District Council and Whiston Rural District Council regarding Air Raid Precautions and joint deputations to meet with Lancashire County Council; copies of the Civil Defence Duties (Exemption Tribunals) Order, 1941. |