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Photocopies and photographs

Reference: D/Ph 533 Catalogue Title: Photocopies and photographs Area: Catalogue Category: Other Records Description: Civil Defence Training Centre, Framwellgate, Durham

Covering Dates: 1954

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Civil Defence Training Centre, Framwellgate, Durham (Ref: D/Ph 533/1-9)

A collection of photographs from the Ministry of Food, taken during the Civil Defence Emergency Feeding Demonstration held at the opening of Durham County Council's new emergency meals training centre in Framwellgate, Durham, 29 January 1954.
Durham County School Meals Service staff demonstrated the use of improvised brick built cookers with hot plates, dustbin ovens, transportable Triplex cookers, improvised boilers and improvised wash, rinse and sterilise units. These were used to prepare hot meals for approximately 200 people during the event, including visitors to the demonstration and children at St. Oswald's School.


Photograph of Miss G.H. Moore and Mrs E. Harrison, Durham County School Meals Service Organisers and Miss F. Cooper, sampling the contents of pan on a triplex cooker during Civil Defence emergency feeding demonstration, 29 January 1954 Detailed notes about the opening of the new training centre at Framwellgate attached to the back of the photograph
(1 photograph, 20cm x 15cm, black and white)


Photograph of County Cllr. R. Bell; County Cllr. J. F. Watson, Chairman of the County Civil Defence Committee; Mr. J. Croft, County Civil Defence Officer; Mr. P. G. Padden, District Chief Warden; Mrs. K. Greenwell, Durham County W.V.S.; and Mr. T. Fawcett, Head Warden taken during the Civil Defence Emergency feeding demonstration, 29 January 1954 Detailed notes about the opening of the new training centre at Framwellgate, Durham are attached to the back of the photograph
(1 photograph, 20cm x 15cm, black and white)


Photograph of Mrs. E. Lawther and Miss E. Berry, Durham County Schools Meals Service personnel, draining carrots during the Civil Defence emergency feeding demonstration, while County Cllr. C. T. Singer and County Cllr. Mrs. F. H. Rushford observe, 29 January 1954 Detailed notes about the opening of the training centre at Framwellgate, Durham are attached to the back of the photograph
(1 photograph, 20cm x 15cm, black and white)


Photograph of Mr. N.S. Daniels, Regional Food Emergency Officer, Ministry of Food, Newcastle; Mrs. S. Gordon, M.B.E., W.V.S., County Organiser for Durham; Mr. J. T. Andrews, County Inspector of School Meals and Assistant Emergency Meals Officer; and Mrs. K. Greenwell, Durham County W.V.S. observing the pipe of an improvised oil burner attached to a wash, rinse and sterilise unit, 29 January 1954 Detailed notes about the opening of the new training centre in Framwellgate, Durham are attached to the back of the photograph
(1 photograph, 20cm x 15cm, black and white)


Photograph of Miss M. B. Marriot, School Meals Service Organiser; Mr. J. T. Andrews, County Inspector of School Meals and Assistant Emergency Meals Officer; Miss G.H. Moore; and Mrs. E. Garvey and Mrs. E. Harrison, School Meals Service Organisers, observing an unnamed member of the Durham County Schools Meals Service staff as they stir the contents of a pan on the Triplex cooker, 29 January 1954 Detailed notes about the opening of the new training centre in Framwellgate, Durham are attached to the back of the photograph
(1 photograph, 21cm x 15cm, black and white)


Photograph of Mr. A. A. Muir, Chief Constable for the County; County Cllr. J.F. Watson, Chairman of the Civil Defence Committee; and Cllr. J.R. Kingston, Mayor of Durham being shown an improvised wash, rinse and sterilise unit by an unnamed member of the Durham County Meals Service staff, 29 January 1954 Mr. J. Croft, County Civil Defence Officer and County Cllr. R. Bell are also present in the far left of the photograph Detailed notes about the opening of the new training centre in Framwellgate, Durham are attached to the back of the photograph
(1 photograph, 20cm x 15cm, black and white)


Photograph showing a general view of the Durham County Schools Meals Service staff participating in the Emergency Feeding demonstration at the new training site at Framwellgate, Durham, 29 January 1954 Detailed notes about the opening of the new training centre in Framwellgate, Durham are attached to the back of the photograph
(1 photograph, 20cm x 15cm, black and white)


Photograph of Cllr. J. R. Kingston, Mayor of Durham and Mr. A. A. Muir, Chief Constable of the County, observing Miss Cooper and Miss Crow, members of the Durham County School Meals Service staff, as they mash potatoes during the emergency meals demonstration, 29 January 1954
(1 photograph, 20cm x 15cm, black and white)


Photograph of visitors to the emergency feeding demonstration gathered around an unnamed member of the Durham County Meals Service staff as she works at a dustbin oven, 29 January 1954 County Cllr. C.T. Singer and County Cllr. Mrs. F. H. Rushford can be seen nearest to the camera Detailed notes about the opening of the new training site in Framwellgate, Durham are attached to the back of the photograph
(1 photograph, 20cm x 15cm, black and white)