1 TYNE & WEAR ARCHIVES USER GUIDE 10 WORLD WAR II
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1. 1938 Ref T164 23 Hetton UDC ARP Committee minutes 1938 41 Ref T18 115 117 Houghton le Spring UDC records including Civil Defence plans 1939 42 of proposed air raid shelters warden s post control centre map showing invasion preparations Ref UD HS Houghton le Spring William Street Methodist Church papers re Civil Defence Ref C HS5 11 Joseph Carter amp Sons builders Sunderland involved in rebuilding of air raid shelters during WW2 Ref DT CAR W amp T R Milburn Architects Sunderland plan of proposed air raid shelters at Seaburn 1940 School House Castletown 1940 and at Carricks Head Bedford Street Sunderland 1942 ARP plan of sectors Fulwell 1942 Ref DT TRM 3 185 4 10 2 115 9 2 Washington UDC Emergency Committee minutes 1941 44 Ref UD WS 7 Bartram amp Sons Ltd shipbuilders Sunderland Register of Home Guards and women workers 1943 1946 Ref DS BM 2 34 General First amp Second World War papers including ARP booklets Home Guard circulars 4 Northumberland Hexham Battalion 1915 46 Ref DX967 7 After the Raid issued by Ministry of Home Security 1940 Ref DX385 3 Farewell message from Regional Commissioner Civil Defence to Personnel of Northern Region including synopsis of work of Civil Defence during the war 1945 Ref DX875 4 HMSO Civil Defence Training pamphlets nos 1 9 Ref JA FCD 7 ARP notebook compiled by F A Johnston of A Company 1939 45 Ref DX1199 Durham County Council Civil Defence record2. 43 Ref 376 Newcastle Education Dept correspondence files including Town Clerk s reserve and stocks for British Restaurants 1943 45 and Emergency Feeding Centres 1942 45 Ref 486 10666 10672 Newcastle City Police records including fuel rationing 1941 50 situation reports on air raids morale and general conditions in Newcastle 1939 45 National Pigeon Service 1939 45 voluntary food organizers 1943 44 entertainments 1939 40 trams and public service vehicles 1940 43 Ref PA NC Newcastle Public Assistance Committee records including papers re emergency rest and feeding centres 1939 45 relief for shipwrecked persons landed in England 1940 casuals of military age seeking admission to Poor Law Institution 1941 ENSA entertaining service patients at Newcastle General Hospital 1944 VE Day celebrations 1945 46 Ref 359 794 827 Newcastle Dental Hospital and School Salute the Soldier fundraising nd Ref HO NDE 50 Newcastle Royal Victoria Infirmary records including Northumberland and Durham War Needs Fund 1947 photograph of staff and patients outside Northumberland War Hospital St Nicholas Hospital Gosforth nd Ref HO RVI 171 3 210 11 Personal papers of Blechynden family of Newcastle including identity cards 1940 1948 ration books 1939 40 and evacuation cards c1940 Ref 1314 Benton Methodist Church circulars and papers re Emergency Feeding Centre 1940 43 Ref C LO2 26 2 Gosforth Central Ladies Bowling Club certificate awarded for
3. minutes 1939 45 Ref MD NC 56 9 16 Newcastle Education Dept records including various correspondence files re evacuation 1938 45 expenditure on evacuation 1940 45 Ref 486 478 T78 Newcastle Medical Officer of Health Annual Reports 1939 45 Ref MD NC PH 1 1 1939 1943 also included in the printed Proceedings of Newcastle City Council available in the Searchroom library Newcastle Public Assistance Committee records including papers re evacuation 1939 45 lists of children evacuated 1939 Ref 359 808 811 Newcastle Royal Victoria Infirmary list of volunteers for evacuation duty 1939 43 Ref HO RVI 105 14 Papers on evacuation in event of a War Emergency 1939 including evacuation registration forms for Newcastle Ref DX385 North Tyneside Tynemouth Borough Council Education Committee minutes 1939 45 Ref T70 131 133 Tynemouth Medical Officer of Health Annual Reports 1939 45 Ref T22 23 T209 2 7 13 South Tyneside Boldon Medical Officer of Health Annual Reports 1939 45 Ref UD BO 65 4 Jarrow Medical Officer of Health Annual Reports 1939 45 Ref T28 56 58 South Shields Borough Council Education Committee minutes 1939 45 Ref T179 176 177 South Shields Borough Education Dept newscuttings 1939 45 Ref 487 117 118 South Shields Medical Officer of Health Annual Reports 1939 45 Ref 1822 1 10 11 Sunderland Sunderland Borough Council Clerk s Dept files including billeting and requisitioning of properties for persons rendered homeless R
4. 1 533 North Tyneside Tynemouth County Borough internment of aliens 1940 Ref T15 265 South Tyneside South Shields Borough Council file on war refugees 1940 Ref T95 56 Sunderland Sunderland Borough Council Town Clerk s Dept files war refugees 1940 42 T170 30 PEACE CELEBRATIONS amp COMMEMORATIONS Gateshead Kibblesworth amp Lamesley Welcome Home Fund minutes 1944 46 Ref CHX38 16 Newcastle Newcastle Dilston Road Methodist Church minute book of Welcome Home Committee for returning troops 1946 Ref 1023 Newcastle Education Dept correspondence files re peace celebrations 1945 47 Ref 486 10664 Newcastle Public Assistance Committee papers re VE Day celebrations Ref 359 827 North Tyneside Tynemouth Borough Education Dept file re VE and VJ Day celebrations 1945 47 Ref 629 98 South Tyneside Hebburn UDC Forces Welcome Home Fund Committee minutes and correspondence 1944 49 Ref T17 67 Sunderland East Rainton Methodist Circuit Welcome Home Fund accounts 1944 46 Ref C ER1 10 WAR MEMORIALS amp ROLLS OF HONOUR Gateshead Gateshead papers relating to survey of war memorials carried out 1992 93 Ref SX37 Newcastle Charlewood Curry architects Newcastle plans and photograph album of war memorials at various churches in north east Ref DT CC Gosforth UDC War Memorial Fund file 1918 50 Ref UD GO 39 41 Newburn UDC file re war memorials at Throckley and Newburn 1933 52 Ref UD NB 20 57 Newcastle Hay
5. 3 11 Sunderland Sunderland Borough Council Town Clerk s Dept files including civilian deaths due to war operations 1939 1943 air raid casualties Ministry of Information announcements 1943 casualties lists 1943 45 Ref T170 Sunderland Borough Council Clerk s Dept files including war damage to property 1939 40 restoration of war damaged properties certificates as to persons rendered homeless by enemy action war damage to buildings belonging to local authorities and public utilities Ref 270 Sunderland Borough Council ARP property damaged cards air raid casualties air raid precautions 1938 44 reports on air raids 1940 45 Ref 209 106 113 Sunderland Royal Infirmary admission and discharge register of service personnel and miners 1939 48 admission and discharge register of war casualties from overseas 1944 45 Ref HO SRI 48 Ryhope General Hospital formerly Ryhope Emergency Hospital registers of casualties admitted to hospital 1940 48 Ref HO RG 1 Ryhope Parish Council air raid victims 1940 45 Ref T12 W amp T R Milburn Architects Sunderland plans for rebuilding and war damage repairs including plans showing bomb damage to Sunderland Working Men s Building Society Fawcett Street 1948 plans of rebuilding of St Barnabas Church after war damage plans of proposed war damage repairs at Palatine Hotel Borough Road Ref DT TRM 6 180 184 8 53 2 164 225 Fenwick s Brewery Sunderland photographs after bomb damage 19
6. 43 Ref DX141 Sunderland Club Ltd Gentlemen s Club records including schedule of war damage to club premises and repairs required 1941 42 list of club property lost or damaged in air raid 1943 correspondence re war damage to Fawcett Street premises 1947 48 Ref X103 Sunderland papers re war compensation for Methodist property 1946 53 Ref MC SU1 12 Houghton le Spring St Michael s R C Church list of those members of the congregation who lost their lives during WW1 and WW2 Ref C HS2 42 Houghton le Spring William Street Methodist Church papers re war damage repairs 1939 46 Ref C HS5 11 MILITARY including recruitment servicemen ex servicemen Gateshead Papers relating to the military career of Captain Lawrence Ashford of Gateshead 1935 52 Ref DX914 Letters written home by Trooper L Blackie of Gateshead of 43 Royal Tank Regiment during his service at Barnard Castle Penrith and camps in India 1944 47 Ref 1181 Papers of James Devlin diver of Gateshead including correspondence re wartime service 1942 46 certificates of proficiency in Merchant Navy gunnery course and completion of salvage diving course 1942 newspaper cuttings concerning wartime wrecks in mouth of River Tyne DX459 Newcastle Newcastle Education Dept correspondence files including Territorial Forces Attendances at Camps 1939 Further Education for demobilized men and women 1944 48 Ref 486 10693 10670 Newcastle Public Assistance Committee pape
7. 947 63 Ref UD WS 25 2 POST WAR PLANNING Gateshead Gateshead Borough Council special committee minutes including post war reconstruction Ref CB GA 59 3 Ryton UDC files re post war housing 1943 56 Ref UD RY 17 19 20 18 Newcastle Newcastle Education Dept correspondence files re further education for demobilized men and women 1944 48 Ref 486 10670 North Tyneside Longbenton UDC file re post war housing 1937 46 Ref 643 135 South Tyneside Boldon UDC records including clerk s files re Post war Housing Programme 1943 56 and Post war Housing Progress Reports 1945 48 Ref UD BO Jarrow Department of Employment papers relating to a conference of Local Employment Committees held at Newcastle to discuss post war reconstruction Ref G EMP2 20 Sunderland Sunderland Borough Council Post war Planning Committee minutes 1943 44 Ref CB SU 45 Sunderland Borough Clerk s Dept files including general post war planning and reconstruction correspondence proposed post war reconstruction of corporation owned hospitals post war housing 1944 48 Town and Country Planning reconstruction of blitzed towns post war planning and development reports by committee Ref 270 MISCELLANEOUS Article from the Journal newspaper about holocaust survivors among local families 1994 Ref JD JRC 23 NB Access requires depositor s consent Freeboard periodical survey of ships 1945 46 some former German ships Ref DX1011 1 August 2015 19
8. TYNE amp WEAR ARCHIVES USER GUIDE 10 WORLD WAR II RECORDS This User Guide outlines many records associated with the Second World War held at the Archives It is not an exhaustive list and references to wartime activities and attitudes can also be found in a wide range of general records for 1939 45 while local authorities records cover many aspects of the home front NB Access to records containing information of a sensitive personal nature eg hospital and school records is restricted Please ask a member of staff for more details Please enquire in advance about access to any unlisted collections CIVIL DEFENCE includes Air Raid Precautions ARP and Home Guard See also Industry amp Economy section for ARP records relating to individual businesses Gateshead Blaydon UDC Clerks Department files ARP list of personnel and application forms 1939 41 Ref T214 217 Felling 21 Battalion Durham Home Guard No 6 Group papers including War Office notices instructions location sheets command orders correspondence newspaper cuttings photographs and postcards 1940 54 Ref AF HG1 unlisted Felling Station Road Methodist Church Sunday School Bill Quay correspondence re use as first aid post 1940 45 Ref C FE3 7 Gateshead Borough Council minutes including Emergency Committee Air Raid Precautions Committee 1938 45 Ref CB GA 13 1 2 Gateshead notebook containing details of local rescue and emergency services and agencies in Gat
9. aid shelter plans for various schools c1938f ARP in schools and Government war occupation of schools 1939 40 Refs 486 478 T67 Newcastle Public Assistance Committee records including papers re firewatching arrangements at Newcastle General Hospital and Elswick Grange 1941 47 register of persons in receipt of civil defence medals 1946 Ref 359 813 816 Newcastle City Police records including Statutory Rules and Orders concerning the emergency situation 1939 40 Newcastle Police War Instruction Book March 1942 List of Special Constables June 1940 files re Air raid warnings 1938 45 Volunteer Defence Corps Home Guard 1940 42 Ringing of church bells in case of invasion 1940 43 Lighting regulations and exemptions 1939 45 Police duties in case of invasion 1941 invasion posters 1942 Air raid shelters 1939 45 ARP training 1940 45 Air raid precautions including exercises and reports on raids 1941 44 Detention orders re members of British Union of Fascists 1940 43 Protected places 1940 45 Control of maps 1940 44 Various defence regulations including control of photography firearms town name signs etc 1940 45 Ref PA NC Newcastle Co operative Society papers re Joint ARP Sub committee 1941 44 Ref 120 111 Newcastle Lemington Gardens Firewatching Committee records1941 Ref DX164 Newcastle Osbaldeston Gardens Firefighting Committee records 1940 42 Ref DX385 1 2 408 unlisted Newcastle Victoria Jubilee Girls County Secondary School
10. are schemes for the troops 1940 44 allotments 1937 42 Emergency Hospital Scheme RAF Benevolent Fund Appeal 1943 Mayor s Air Raid Distress Fund 1943 Ref 270 Sunderland Borough Council files including foodstuffs etc 1939 45 Ref T170 Sunderland RDC records including community feeding register 1943 47 Air Raid Victims Fund Committee 1940 45 Housing and War Emergency Plans including shelters 1941 and British Restaurant 1942 Ref T12 285 497 674 Murton Methodist Church papers re building including use as community feeding centre 1931 45 Ref C MU3 5 Washington UDC British Restaurants file 1941 47 Ref UD WS 26 22 13 General Concert programmes for ENSA National people s concerts and local theatres 1940 45 Ref 2578 unlisted Wartime diaries of Mrs A Meader 1939 46 Ref DX769 Sales brochure for The Hartley Device to allow driving in the blackout 1940 Ref DF FL unlisted Identity cards 1943 1955 Ref 1684 6 7 Ministry of Home Security social club No 1 region invitations to parties 1943 45 Ref DX875 3 1 4 EVACUATION Gateshead Gateshead Borough Council Education Committee minutes 1939 45 Ref CB GA 12 23 29 Whickham UDC registers of persons billeted in Whickham 1940 45 Ref T213 Newcastle Newcastle City Council Billeting Tribunal and Sub committees minutes 1939 48 Ref MD NC 17 Newcastle City Council expenditure on government evacuation scheme 1939 40 Ref T219 Newcastle City Council Education Committee
11. ef 270 Sunderland Borough Council Education Committee minutes 1939 45 Ref CB SU 17 17 20 Sunderland Rural District Council billeting registers 1940 45 Ref T12 283 284 Hetton Medical Officer of Health Annual Reports 1939 45 Ref 220 221 Houghton le Spring Medical Officer of Health Annual Reports 1939 45 Ref UD HS 29 12 13 Washington Medical Officer of Health Annual Reports 1939 45 Ref UD WS 49 16 22 General Northern Traffic Area Evacuation Scheme nd c1938 39 Ref 1824 Note of payments due from Mrs M Gatoff for billeting of evacuated children 1942 Ref DX694 2 15 Records of Miss Norah Cunningham teacher in Wallsend including correspondence during evacuation with school to Boulmer in Northumberland ARP card civil defence card etc 1939 42 Ref DX995 4 Papers of Mrs E Henderson of Fawdon including letters and postcards re evacuation to Carlisle 1939 40 Ref 1386 See also User Guides 15A 15E for guides to evacuation records for individual schools Newcastle headteachers were instructed by the LEA to use different logbooks during the war FOREIGN NATIONALS Newcastle Newcastle City Police correspondence re internment of aliens including Scandinavian seamen 1939 42 incident involving Italian POWs c1945 Ref PA NC 5 24 43 Newcastle Public Assistance Committee papers re requisition of MS Pilsudski tied up in the Tyne and arrangements for billeting of Polish refugees on board 1939 40 file on Latvian refugees Ref 359 81
12. eshead 1939 45 Ref DX15 1 Ryton UDC minutes and records including Allotments Committee minutes amp clerk s file 1939 45 ARP stock ledger 1938 41 Ref UD RY 3 17 1 39 Winlaton ARP Hallgarth Hall 1938 44 Ref T214 218 Newcastle ARP Squad Heaton Works photographs 1939 40 Ref DX1235 ARP warden s report book Benwell 1939 Ref DX1347 Benton Methodist Church correspondence re use of church property during the War 1939 46 Ref C LO2 26 1 Gosforth UDC records including ARP Committee minutes 1939 45 ARP Sub Committee minutes 1936 38 ARP files and correspondence 1939 46 Emergency Invasion minutes 1942 Auxiliary Fire Service correspondence 1940 47 surveyors plans list and position of ARP services c1939 and ARP rescue and demolition sectors 1939 45 Ref UD GO Newburn UDC records including Civil Defence and Engineering Committee minutes 1942 55 Fire Brigade and ARP Committee minutes 1937 41 Ref UD NB Newcastle City Council minutes including General ARP Committee 1938 44 Civil Defence Working Group of Watch Committee 1938 45 Lord Mayor s Emergency Committee 1939 40 Ref MD NC Newcastle City Council maps and plans including temporary ARP accommodation and location of first aid posts 1938 44 Ref D NCP Newcastle City Council ARP records 1937 50 including Control Guide for Air Raid Wardens and manual of instructions concerning rescue and demolition Ref 604 83 89 Newcastle Education Dept records including files re air r
13. f C NS13 32 Tynemouth Borough Council wartime files 1939 45 including civilian deaths due to war operations 1936 46 notification of casualties 1940 45 damage to property 1940 45 map of bomb incidents 30 Sept 1941 Ref T15 Tynemouth Borough Council bomb damage schedule arranged alphabetically by street indicating date and extent of damage 1940 45 Ref CB TY ES 1 Tynemouth Borough Education Dept file re war damage 1939 53 Ref 629 96 Tynemouth Borough Council map showing location and status of bombs dropped 1940 43 Ref T383 345 Tynemouth Poor Law Union register of admissions and discharges to Emergency Hospital 1939 46 correspondence re war damage ARP rotas at hospital transfer of patients etc 1939 45 Ref 1131 257 259 270 Tynemouth Victoria Jubilee Infirmary war casualty records inpatients 1939 48 and outpatients 1939 41 Ref 1913 43 44 Whitley Bay MBC files concerning air raids and civilian casualties admitted to hospital 1939 45 Ref MB WB 27 1 2 Whitley Bay Trinity Methodist Circuit papers and photograph of war damage 1941 53 Ref C WB3 9 South Tyneside Boldon UDC records including clerks files re civilian deaths due to war operations 1939 41 and council houses war damage 1944 50 Ref UD BO Jarrow MBC air raid cost record 1940 43 Ref T355 1 South Shields Borough Council Engineers Dept air raid damage reports Ref 218 411 414 South Shields Ingham Infirmary photograph album of air raid damage 1940 43 Ref HO ING 2
14. market postcard showing St Thomas Church and War Memorial nd c1950s Ref DX665 1 17 Newcastle Leazes Park Synagogue photograph of unveiling of war memorial 1949 Ref C NC65 24 NB Access requires depositor s consent Newcastle Moor Line amp Walter Runciman amp Co Remembrance Book 1939 45 Ref DX1054 1 Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve roll of honour 1939 45 Ref 1577 26 Thomas Hedley soap manufacturers employees roll of service 1939 1948 Ref DX1598 North Tyneside North Shields Ralph Gardner School presentation of sundial to school in 1957 in memory of pupils who died during WW2 Ref E NS1 14 24 Northumberland Village Homes Whitley Bay photograph of war memorial in honour of boys and girls educated in approved schools who served and died in WW2 nd c1950s Ref CH NVH 4 28 Shiremoor St Mark s Church and War Memorial photographs 1960s Ref DT CC 362 400 Tynemouth Borough Council Clerk s Dept files including Cullercoats War Memorial 1947 66 Roll of Honour of Civilian War Dead in UK 1939 45 Ref T35 162 195 Sunderland Ryhope Parish Council War Memorial Committee 1945 50 Ref T12 498 Silksworth amp Tunstall Joint War Memorial Committee records 1932 53 Ref CP SI Sunderland Borough Council Clerk s Dept files including Sunderland War Memorial amp Inscription for 1939 45 War British Empire Nurses War Memorial Fund Memorials to civilian war dead Ref 270 4360 4721 6689 Washington UDC file re War Memorial 1
15. ome Guard Company 4 1940 and for 8 Battalion Durham Home Guard Company 4 c1940 41 lists of rifle numbers clothing and equipment 1943 44 Account book 1942 44 Register of 8 Battalion DLI Home Guard No 4 Company Readheads c1943 List of Home Guard officers nd information of certificates of service and dates of enrolment 1944 photograph of group of officers of 8 Durham Battalion Home Guard c1943 Ref 1061 1213 1470 1484 South Shields Borough Council minutes including ARP Committee 1938 45 Ref T179 South Shields Borough Treasurers Dept stock ledger for ARP equipment issued to police and fire brigade 1941 45 Ref T180 186 Sunderland Sunderland Borough Council minutes including ARP and Civil Defence Committee 1939 58 Ref CB SU Sunderland Borough Council Town Clerks Department files including Invasion preparations 1942 45 Notes of lecture on role of ARP 1939 ARP Weekly Bulletins National 1939 45 Defence of Sunderland special correspondence 1939 41 Ref T170 Sunderland Borough Council Town Clerks Department files including Civil Defence and Fire Prevention Orders ARP scheme for Sunderland Docks and Corporation Quay Civil Defence Fund Civil Defence Corps ranks and badges Police War Reserve general correspondence 1940 48 Ref 270 Sunderland RDC register of ARP personnel and particulars of service 1939 44 plans of Civil Defence depots 1939 45 Ref T12 282 675 Sunderland Police ARP handbook Personal Protection Against Gas
16. on wartime activities including names of Armed Service members bombing raids Home Guard etc 1938 54 Ref DS HL 1 9 10 R amp W Hawthorn Leslie amp Co Ltd Home Guard photograph and certificate of service 1943 46 Ref 1804 John Readhead and Sons Ltd South Shields records including account of air raid damage at shipyard 1941 48 report on shipyard planning and control 1941 modifications to shipyard layout 1943 photographs of shipyard 1939 43 including visit of King George VI 1943 Local Defence Volunteers and Home Guard records listed in detail in Civil Defence section above Ref 1061 1148 1151 1209 1485 1488 Reyrolle Ltd Hebburn wartime papers including military contracts security of the works and visits by and employment of foreigners Ref DS REY 33 35 36 Sunderland Bartram amp Sons Ltd Sunderland records including correspondence with the Admiralty 1940 45 licenses to build ships issued by the Admiralty 1942 57 official orders re Admiralty and Ministry of War Transport applications for permission to leave the employment of Bartram amp Sons Ltd in accordance with the Essential Work Order 1941 1941 43 papers relating to the War Effort Savings Scheme 1940 45 lists of absentees 1940 42 Ref 990 River Wear Commissioners Port Emergency Committee files 1939 45 including trading with the enemy 1939 training and resettlement of disabled persons 1941 44 war weapons week 1940 44 airborne seaborne raids 1942 44 ci
17. rs re employment of disabled ex servicemen British Legion etc 1940 46 Ref 359 818 Newcastle Royal Victoria Infirmary lay members of staff called up for military service 1939 45 Ref HO RVI 105 Diary of W G Rutherford RNVR of Gosforth on HMS Menestheus Patroller Agamemnon 1943 46 Ref DX259 1 Frank E Woodbridge of Benwell wartime papers from time in Middle East in 1943 and in prison camps also includes photograph of Hitler Youth Girls 1940s Ref E WEA1 57 Letters to Capt EW Swan RNR 1870 1948 mainly from fellow naval officers WW2 content includes war in Egypt and Libya life in the WRNS Ref DF EWS Newcastle City Police records including Returns to Army Record Offices of police and fire brigade personnel with mobilization obligations 1936 39 Police serving with HM Forces 1938 40 Location of military units 1942 48 Billeting of HM Forces 1939 45 Ref PA NC German plan based on Ordnance Survey 6 to mile maps of North East military targets Byker and Walker 1942 Ref DX111 Photograph of the 206 Officer cadet training unit based in Newcastle 1944 Ref DX1613 1 North Tyneside Commander Gladstone Blacklock of Tynemouth photographs of service in Italy Royal Naval Reserve 1944 45 Ref DX1233 Tynemouth Poor Law Union Emergency Hospital Service register and index of servicemen evacuees war workers and POWs admitted and discharged 1939 46 Ref 1131 257 259 German plan based on Ordnance Survey 6 to mile maps of No
18. rth East military targets South Shields and North Shields also parts of Wallsend and Jarrow 1942 Ref DX111 South Tyneside German plan based on Ordnance Survey 6 to mile map of Hebburn and Jarrow showing military targets c1940 Ref 804 German plans based on Ordnance Survey 6 to mile maps of North East military targets South Shields and North Shields also parts of Wallsend and Jarrow 1942 Ref DX111 Sunderland Sunderland Borough Council Clerk s Dept files including repatriated POWs from Germany 1948 ex servicemen suffering from tuberculosis Ministry of Pensions service of medical officers with Forces Ref 270 German plan based on Ordnance Survey 6 to mile maps of North East military targets Sunderland 1942 Ref DX111 General British Medical Association North of England Branch Local Medical War Committee records 1937 47 including files re service recruitment conscription recruitment of women 1939 45 re Home Guard medical officers 1940 44 re evacuees 1939 46 release of doctors for military service 1940 47 conscription of doctors 1940 43 Ref AS BMA2 Papers re Tyneside Scottish Brigade 1919 45 Ref 1931 92 97 Burma Star Association Tyneside amp District Branch records Ref SX56 No 131 Tyneside Squadron Air Defence Cadet Corps minutes and photographs 1939 47 Ref AF ATC1 Photograph of HMS Scylla in action with King George VI on board c1942 Ref DF STR 33 12 Typographical Association address book
19. s demolition of air raid shelters 1946 63 Ref T169 1 11 WAR DAMAGE amp CASUALTIES Gateshead Dunston Hill Hospital admissions and discharges men participating in WW2 Ref HO DH 9 Whickham UDC register of civilian casualties admitted to hospital 1941 Ref T213 200 Stannington St Mary s Hospital Gateshead Borough Asylum war casualties admissions register 1939 41 Ref 1957 33 Newcastle Newcastle City Council minutes including Air Raid Damage Emergency Repairs Committee 1940 45 Emergency Health Sub committee 1941 45 Ref MD NC Newcastle Education Dept records including file on war damage to schools general 1942 49 and plans for rebuilding and repair of war damage to schools c1941 45 Ref 486 478 Newcastle Engineers Dept war damage returns 1940 44 Ref T157 61 Newcastle City Police records including list of air raids and street accidents in Newcastle 1938 43 unexploded bombs 1940 53 reports on air raids and other damage leaflet on Government Compensation Scheme for war damage to property 1940 Ref PA NC Reports on air raid damage in Byker St Peter s area of Newcastle 1 September 1941 Ref 2239 1 Alexander Deuchar Ltd papers re deferred repairs to licensed houses 1947 49 Ref DT AD 11 North Tyneside Longbenton UDC war deaths emergency mortuary and burial arrangements April 1942 Ref T123 6 North Shields St Columba United Reformed Church correspondence re claim for compensation for damage due to enemy action Re
20. services rendered in the making of hospital supplies during WW2 c1945 Ref SX65 5 1 12 North Tyneside North Tyneside Coordination Committee included under Newcastle Public Assistance Committee papers re care of the homeless billeting emergency measures minutes etc 1942 44 Ref 359 802 803 South Tyneside Jarrow MBC Allotments Committee minutes 1935 44 Community Feeding Centre Committee minutes 1942 46 Wartime Nurseries Committee 1942 46 Ref T10 68 69 72 126 Jarrow MBC Treasurers Department community feeding ledger 1941 48 Ref T23 209 South Shields Borough Council files including wartime allotments 1939 45 Dig for Victory campaign 1943 Red Cross Victory Week 1944 occupation of schools by the military 1940 43 Ref T95 South Shields Borough Council Community Feeding sub committee minutes 1941 47 Ref T179 456 South Shields Ingham Infirmary record of ration points used 1944 53 Ref HO ING 46 Sunderland Log book of Sunderland Flying Boat JM679 presented to Boldon Savings Committee to commemorate their success in the Wings for Victory savings campaign 1943 Ref UD BO 11 Sunderland Borough Council Clerks Dept files including honouring of the DLI June 1944 holidays for corporation staff and workmen during wartime requisitioning of property community kitchens and emergency feeding centres number of staff employed in 1939 and 1946 war savings Salute the Soldier and Wings for Victory co ordination of welf
21. sketch plan of air raid shelters Ref E NC56 3 1 9th Battalion Northumberland Home Guard Newcastle Central orders social events photograph 1939 46 Ref DX1518 North Tyneside North Shields Percy Crescent amp Cockburn Terrace firewatching and firefighting scheme 1941 44 Ref DX52 1 6 Tynemouth Borough Council ARP and wartime files 1938 45 including ARP personnel 1939 45 handbook of wartime information for use after enemy action April 1942 Ref T15 Tynemouth Borough Education Dept file re shelters and trenches in Tynemouth 1941 48 Ref 629 97 Whitley Bay MBC details of air raids and precautions 1939 45 Ref MB WB 27 1 71st Northumberland Home Guard Heavy Anti Aircraft Battery C Troop Monkseaton and Whitley Bay instruction course notebooks 1942 44 Ref DX1520 Northumberland Home Guard 7th Battalion Tynemouth notes on gas training 1942 1944 Ref DX413 5 Papers of Stanley Holmes local councillor Tynemouth 1940 1945 Ref DX1378 See also http northshields173 org website about the bombing of a public shelter in North Shields 3 May 1941 includes oral history contributions South Tyneside Hebburn UDC ARP Committee minutes 1938 41 Ref T18 115 117 Jarrow MBC ARP Committee minutes 1938 46 including Housing Repairs Committee 1945 46 Ref T10 65 66 John Readhead amp Sons Ltd shipyard Local Defence Volunteers and Home Guard records including forms of enrolment in LDV 1940 41 record cards for 23 Battalion Durham H
22. turned into photograph aloum of members who served in the armed forces 1940s Ref TU TA 15 INDUSTRY AND ECONOMY Gateshead Clarke Chapman Ltd Gateshead records including plan of air raid shelters and claim for compensation due to requisition of hut Ref DS CC1 Gateshead amp District Tramways Co notices re allowances to employees affected by war 1939 Ref 1994 North East Trading Estates Ltd Team Valley Trading Estate records re wartime provisions 1939 45 arrangements and orders in event of German invasion 1941 44 location of alien firms 1941 schedules of air raid shelters and trenches at Team Valley Ref 1395 61 63 75 Newcastle Tyne Improvement Commission records including index of ships arriving and sailing 1940 46 H M ships files re ARP docks 1938 45 compulsory military training and registration of seamen 1939 41 port regulations 1939 46 air raids 1941 42 mine watching and V day holidays 1941 46 Ref 148 1183 894 308 315 NEI Parsons Ltd Heaton Works photographs of ARP squad 1939 40 Ref DX1235 Employment papers of William Lee Newcastle Electric Supply Co including wartime evacuation Ref DX967 6 North Tyneside Swan Hunter amp Wigham Richardson Ltd correspondence files including Essential Works Order 1941 46 war damage 1944 53 requisition and war damage 1939 54 Ref 1826 South Tyneside R amp W Hawthorn Leslie amp Co Ltd Newcastle amp Hebburn Monthly Board meetings and reports some information
23. vil defence 1941 46 ARP files 1938 47 including civil defence of North and South Docks 1942 disposal of unexploded bombs 1940 43 blackout 1939 location of ARP shelters 1940 Second World War files 1939 48 including reserved occupations file 1941 46 papers re employment of workmen by RWC during war 1941 46 Ref 202 1350 1490 Sunderland Borough Council Clerk s Department files including war work for Sunderland workshops and factories holidays for Corporation staff and workmen during wartime number of staff and workmen employed in 1939 and 1946 Schedule of reserved occupations and protected work Ministry of Transport Circular Ref 270 Wear Shipbuilders Association minutes 1939 45 Ref EM WS 1 11 12 HOME FRONT Gateshead Gateshead Savings Committee minutes 1939 47 Ref G SAV1 Dunston Hospital National Savings Campaign certificates of honour 1943 44 Ref HO DH 6 1 2 Gateshead Borough Council War Bonds Committee 1940 42 Ref CB GA 56 11 Newcastle Newburn UDC British Restaurants Sub committee minutes 1943 44 Ref UD NB 18 2 Newcastle City Council Advisory Committee to Local Fuel Overseer minutes 1939 40 Ref MD NC 5 Newcastle City Council Wartime Day Nurseries Sub committee minutes 1941 45 Ref MD NC 99 25 28 Newcastle City Council Town Clerk s Dept files including wartime administration of the Quay 1939 44 papers and regulations re billeting communal feeding etc 1940 45 papers re evacuation and emergency centres 1941
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