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The archive contains thousands of records detailing the city's experience of World War II Thousands ... records at the Hull History Centre. The full archive covers the civil defence personnel ...

Our maths master was in charge of the messenger service of the Civil Defence(ie if the telephone communications broke down he organised people to act as runners). We had bicycles and motor bikes.

A Civil Defence Rescue Section was also formed; members of the St John Ambulance Brigade from Jarrow and other Divisions trained at Dame Margarets in Washington; a former Dr Barnodo's House later ...

I worked as a writer in Civil defence HQ, known as Group 8 HQ. All messages received by phone from ARP posts in area were dictated to the writers who then wrote them out by hand -3 carbon copies ...