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BERKSHIRE RECORD OFFICE

Guide to World War 2 Records: Air Raid Precautions (ARP)

Berkshire Record Office
9 Coley Avenue
Reading
RG1 6AF

Tel 0118 901 5132
Fax 0118 901 5131
Email arch@reading.gov.uk
www.berkshirerecordoffice.org.uk

ARP Operation

Berkshire: County ARP operational data, including distribution services with map of communications and control 1944 (C/D5).
County ARP Officer鈥檚 reports in the Emergency Committee for Civil Defence 1939-1948 (C/CL/C3/19/1).
Siren and incident log books 1940-1945 (C/D2/1-3).

Abingdon Rural District: ARP matters dealt with in the Emergency Committee and the Finance and General Services Committee
1939-1944 (RD/A/CB1/7-9).
Demolition of Shelters and other Structures 1944-1960 (C/D10).

Bradfield Rural District: ARP Committee reports in the minutes of the Rural District Council 1939-1945 (RD/B/CA1/34-40).

Cookham Rural District: ARP information in the Finance and General Purposes Committee minutes 1938-1945 (RD/C/CB2/4-6).
Demolition of Shelters 1945-1961 (C/D11).

Easthampstead Rural District: ARP committee reports and information on provision in the Rural District Council minutes
1939-1945 (RD/E/CA1/15).
Some ARP information in the Emergency Committee minutes
1940-1945 (RD/E/CB16/1), and in the Health and General Services Committee minutes 1939-1945 (RD/E/CB13/2).

Hungerford Rural District: Rural District Council and Emergency Committee minutes 1939-1945 (RD/H/CA1/10-12).

Maidenhead: ARP Sub-Committee minutes, later the Civil Defence Sub-Committee 1941-1945 (M/AC2/3/2).

Newbury Rural District: Rural District Council minutes 1939-1945
(RD/N/CA1/10).

Reading: Emergency Committee for Civil Defence minutes 1939-1945
(R/AC2/20/1-6).
Records of Chief ARP Warden 1939-1958 (D/EX1657/1-6).
Use of part of Reading Prison by military authorities for fire-watching 1945 (P/RP1/16/1).

Wallingford: ARP Committee minutes 1938-1942 (W/AC2/2/8-9).
Joint Fire Brigade and ARP Committee minutes 1941 (W/AC2/2/9).

Wallingford Rural District: Rural District Council minutes 1939-1945 (RD/W/CA1/19-20).

Wantage: Reports of the ARP Committee in the Urban District Council minutes, later in Finance and General Purposes Committee 1939-1945 (UD/WT/CA1/8-9).

Wantage Rural District: Rural District Council minutes 1939-1945
(RD/WT/CA1/13-15).

Windsor: ARP Committee minutes 1939-1945 (WI/AC2/11/9-15).

Wokingham: Plan of Air Raid Shelters 1940 (WO/SW2/3/1-3).
Floor plan of ARP first aid post at the indoor bowling green, Reading Road 1938 (WO/SW2/1).

Wokingham Rural District: ARP Committee minutes 1939
(RD/WO/CB26/3).
Emergency Committee minutes include ARP 1939-1940
(RD/WO/CB17/1).

Out-County: Board of Education circular on ARP in schools 1939
(D/P19/28/21/2).

ARP Local Information
The amount of information contained in these records can vary.

Beedon: Civil Parish Council minutes 1939-1945 (CPC15/2/1).

Chaddleworth: Civil Parish Council minutes 1940-1941 (CPC32/1/1).

Crowthorne: Civil Parish Council minutes 1940-1941 (CPC102B/1/2).

Finchampstead: Civil Parish Council minutes 1940 (CPC56/1/3).

Hampstead Marshall: Civil Parish Council minutes 1940 (CPC61/1/1).

Mapledurham: Civil Parish Council minutes 1940-1942 (CPC162B/1/2).

Padworth: Civil Parish Council minutes 1940 (CPC90/1/1).

Pangbourne: Civil Parish Council minutes 1939-1940 (CPC91/2/1).

Purley: Civil Parish Council minutes and rough minutes 1939-1941 (CPC93/1/1, CPC93/2/1).

Reading: Pocket Guide to the ARP Arrangements in Reading c.1939
(D/EX1650/1).

Sandhurst: Civil Parish Council minutes 1940 (CPC102/1/3).

Shaw-cum-Donnington: Newspaper clipping of public appeal for ARP volunteers in the Civil Parish Council minutes 1940 (CPC106/1/1).

Wallingford: Notice of fire fighting demonstration 1941
(D/P139/28/8).

Waltham St Lawrence: Civil Parish Council minutes 1940-1941 (CPC141/1/2).

Wargrave: Civil Parish Council minutes 1940 (CPC145/1/4).

West Hendred: Civil Parish Council minutes 1940 (CPC67/1/1).

Winnersh: Civil Parish Council minutes 1940-1944 (CPC73C/1/22).

Woodley: Civil Parish Council minutes 1939 (CPC113B/1/3).

This guide is correct as of January 2006. Please contact the Berkshire Record Office to request a copy of the most up-to-date version.

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