Description

Admin History:

The Control and Report services had many duties but their main function was to receive and co-ordinate information relating to enemy action received from wardens, police and other services; to despatch casualty and other services to incidents; and to keep Group & Regional Headquarters informed of operations and damage to special premises, road blockages and other matters affecting the movement of Civil Defence parties and troops.

Description:

This collection holds incident files containing copies of all messages, reports and correspondence received with reference to each incident; an alphabetical index of streets showing the date and raid numbers which affected them; a register of air raid warnings showing times of warnings and all clear and notification of both to Public Cleansing, City Engineers, Broadcast Relay, Chief Warden and the Town Clerk; a register of reports of unexploded bombs, unexploded parachute mines and unexploded anti-aircraft shells; a register of messages received from the Royal Observer Corps of York relating to alarm tests and warnings with details of the duration of industrial alarms; a file of reports on unexploded bombs [1942-1946] and Alderman L. Schultz' personal files [2 files, 1941-1942]