Miscellaneous documents
Reference: D/X 1063 Catalogue Title: Miscellaneous documents Area: Catalogue Category: Other Records Description: Civil defence records and J. Ramsay MacDonald
Covering Dates: 1922-c.1980
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Records given on (Ref: D/X 1063 28 June 1994-1063/39)Ref: D/X 1063/1
File containing photostat of first page of A.R.P. Department Circular No. 59/1939 - Provisional Local War Instructions (March 1939), and memoirs by J.R. Wallace concerning preparations for Civil Defence by Seaham U.D.C. throughout the Second World War (c. 1980)
(27 papers)
Ref: D/X 1063/2Certificates issued to J.R. Wallace by the Home Office Civil Defence Department, County and District Councils and Civil Defence School, as Civil Defence Instructor, etc., 1941-1971
(35 papers)
Ref: D/X 1063/3Civil Defence Manual of Basic Training Volume 1: "Organisation of Civil Defence and Allied Services", Pamphlet No. 6, issued by the Home Office, H.M.S.O. 1952
(1 booklet)
Ref: D/X 1063/4'Memorandum on Civil Defence Operational Control', issued by the Home Office, H.M.S.O. 1954
(1 booklet)
Ref: D/X 1063/5Civil Defence Training Memorandum No. 2: 'The Warden Section of the Civil Defence Corps (England and Wales)', issued by the Home Office, H.M.S.O., 1959
(1 booklet)
Ref: D/X 1063/6Civil Defence Training Memorandum No. 3: 'The Control of Civil Defence Operations under Fall-out Conditions (England and Wales)', issued by the Home Office, H.M.S.O., 1959
(1 booklet)
Ref: D/X 1063/7Civil Defence Training Memorandum No. 5: 'Strategic Reconnaissance in Damaged Areas (England and Wales)', issued by the Home Office, H.M.S.O., 1961
(1 booklet)
Ref: D/X 1063/8Civil Defence Training Memorandum No. 6: 'The Evacuation of Casualties', issued by the Home Office, H.M.S.O., 1961
(1 Booklet)
Ref: D/X 1063/9Civil Defence Training Memorandum No. 7: 'Road Movement', issued by the Home Office, H.M.S.O., 1962
(1 booklet)
Ref: D/X 1063/10Civil Defence Circular No. 7/1953: 'Section Training, Headquarter's Section Syllabus', from the Home Office, Civil Defence Department, 5 March 1953
(1 booklet)
Ref: D/X 1063/11Civil Defence Operational Memorandum No. 1/1956: 'Control of Civil Defence Operations within a sub region (England and Wales)', from the Home Office, October 1956
Enclosed: a map showing Durham and Tyne/Tees sub-regions, 1956
(1 booklet, 1 paper)
Ref: D/X 1063/12Civil Defence Circular No. 18/1962: 'Reorganisation of the Civil Defence Corps', from the Home Office Civil Defence Department, 12 July 1962
(1 booklet)
Ref: D/X 1063/13Copy of Civil Defence Circular 17/1963: 'The Civil Defence Control System', from the Home Office, 8 July 1963
(2 papers)
Ref: D/X 1063/14Photocopy of Civil Defence Circular No. 1/1967: 'Civil Defence, The Control System, The Civil Defence Corps', from the Home Office Civil Defence Department, 31 January 1967
(18 papers, photocopied)
Ref: D/X 1063/15Civil Defence Circular No. 2/1968, Fire Service Circular No. 9/1968: concerning local authority staff, central training, new buildings, etc., from the Home Office, 19 January 1968
(1 paper)
Ref: D/X 1063/16Photocopy of Civil Defence Circular No. 2/1969: 'Local Authority Civil Defence Planning', from the Home Office, 11 March 1969
(6 papers, photocopied)
Ref: D/X 1063/17Photocopy of Home Office Circular No. ES1/1972: 'Home Defence 1972-76', from the Home Office, 22 March 1972
(12 papers, photocopied)
Ref: D/X 1063/18Photocopy of Home Office Circular No. ES3/1972: 'Home Office Planning Assumption', from the Home Office, 7 February 1973
(3 papers, photocopied)
Ref: D/X 1063/19Home Office Circular No. ES7/1973: 'Machinery of Government in War: Planning Assumptions and General Guidance', from the Home Office, 29 August 1973
(6 sheets)
Ref: D/X 1063/20Photocopy of Draft Civil Defence (Planning) Regulations 1973 (to come into operation 1 April 1974), issued by the Home Office, H.M.S.O., 1973
(4 papers, photocopied)
Ref: D/X 1063/21Manual of Civil Defence Volume 1, Pamphlet No. 1: 'Nuclear Weapons', issued by the Home Office, H.M.S.O., 1956
(1 booklet)
Ref: D/X 1063/22Manual of Civil Defence, Volume 1, Pamphlet No. 2: 'Radioactive Fallout', issued by the Home Office, H.M.S.O. 1956
(1 booklet)
Ref: D/X 1063/23'Home Defence and the Farmer', booklet issued by the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, H.M.S.O., 1958
(1 booklet)
Ref: D/X 1063/24Manual of Civil Defence, volume 1, Pamphlet No. 1: 'Nuclear Weapons', issued by the Home Office, H.M.S.O., 1959
(1 booklet)
Ref: D/X 1063/25Civil Defence Handbook No. 10: 'Advising the Householder on Protection against Nuclear Attack', issued by the Home Office, H.M.S.O., 1963
(1 booklet)
Ref: D/X 1063 25 June 1999Acc: 2609 (D)
County Record Office,
County Hall,
DURHAM.
DHl 5UL
Telephone (091) 383 3253
Ref: D/X 1063/26Booklet describing the work of U.K.W.M.O. (the United Kingdom Warning and Monitoring Organisation), issued by the Home Office, H.M.S.O., n.d.
(1 booklet)
Ref: D/X 1063/27Photocopies of photographs from a pamphlet produced by the United States Federal Civil Defense Administration, showing the effects of a test atomic explosion 'Operation Doorstop', 17 March 1953
(3 papers, photocopied)
Ref: D/X 1063/28Photocopies of leaflets issued by the U.S. Department of Defense, Office of Civil Defense, concerning Emergency Sanitation, Fallout and First Aid, 1958-1961
(4 papers, photocopied)
Ref: D/X 1063 28 June 1994Acc: 2216 (D)
Ref: D/X 1063/29Photocopies of leaflets issued by Civil Defence of Canada, concerning emergency supplies, survival and shelters, 1959-1962
(7 papers, photocopied)
Ref: D/X 1063/30File containing plans of County Civil Defence Training Centre, Framwellgate Moor and examples of training exercises used by Civil Defence, 1959
(19 papers)
Ref: D/X 1063/31Papers concerning suggested plans for a Civil Defence Control Centre, horizontal tally board, list of conventional signs (1959) and layout of damage reports and message forms, n.d.
(11 papers)
Ref: D/X 1063/32Photocopy of 'Home Defence Planning - the role of the Elected Member', produced by the County Civil Defence Officers' Society, June 1974
(4 sheets, photocopied)
Ref: D/X 1063/33'Nuclear Weapons Effects Computer No. 1', device to calculate damage, casualties etc. as a result of a nuclear explosion, n.d.
(1 plastic disc)
Ref: D/X 1063/34'Radiac Calculator', device to calculate dose of radiation received as a result of exposure to a nuclear explosion, n.d.
(1 plastic disc)
Ref: D/X 1063/35Programme for a weekend course on Civil Defence, Radiation etc., held at Lambton Castle, 6-8 March 1959
(1 paper)
Ref: D/X 1063/36Photocopy of 'The War Plan', an article concerning Britain's plans for survival under nuclear attack, reprinted from The Daily Mail, March 1961
(5 papers, photocopied)
Ref: D/X 1063/37Illustrations from Home Office Emergency Feeding Pamphlets showing improvised cookers and kitchen, n.d.
(2 papers)
Ref: D/X 1063/38Illustration and description of 'The Avo Radiac Survey Meter - Mark 4', taken from Fission Fragments, December 1961
(1 paper)
Ref: D/X 1063/39Copy of newspaper extracts from the Sunderland Echo, concerning the abolition of the Civil Defence Corps, 1968, including a photocopy of an article by J.A. Wallace, 2 April 1968
(2 papers)
(Ref: D/X 1063/40-41)Second deposit
(Acc: 2609 (D))
Photocopies of two photographs of J. Ramsay MacDonald on a visit to Seaham to unveil the cenotaph, 1922
(2 papers glued back-to-back)
Ref: D/X 1063/41Photocopy of letter from J. Ramsay MacDonald, 10 Downing Street, Whitehall, to E. Edwards MP, on the formation of the National Government following the financial crisis of 1931 and reductions in unemployment benefit, 25 August 1931
(4 papers)
