| Description | Papers and correspondence concerning civil defence control centres and shelters.
Includes: Civil Defence Circular - the Control of Civil Defence Operations Within Civil Defence Corps Authority Areas (March 1952); Advice of Payment, under the Civil Defence Act, 1948, for Whiston Rural District Council (c. March 1952); correspondence with Lancashire County Council and the Home Office, London, regarding training of Civil Defence Instructors (1951-1952); correspondence with Lancashire County Council regarding Civil Defence expenditure and Civil Defence information circulars (1951-1953); statement of expenditure on civil defence general and auxiliary fire services in the financial year 1951/52 (October 1952); handwritten notes and calculations; correspondence with the Ministry of Housing and Local Government, London, regarding claims under the Civil Defence Act, 1948 (November 1952); letter to the Eccleston Street, Prescot, branch of Boots the Chemists, regarding the provision of field dressings for Civil Defence First Aid lectures (June 1951); correspondence with the Home Office, London, the Home Office Civil Defence Region, Manchester, and the Ministry of Supply, Manchester, regarding the sale and repurchase of Morrison Shelters during the War Period (1944-1950); handwritten notes and calculations. |