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An ARP warden in Poplar, London at the start of the Second World War. By the outbreak of war there were more than 1.5 million involved in the various ARP services. [8] There were around 1.4 million ARP wardens in Britain during the war. Full-time ARP staff peaked at just over 131,000 in December 1940 (nearly 20,000 were women).
The Civil Defence Service was a civilian volunteer organisation in Great Britain during World War II.Established by the Home Office in 1935 as Air Raid Precautions (ARP), its name was officially changed to the Civil Defence Service (CD) in 1941.
Map of locations of bombing in Nottingham during the Second World War. Published in the Nottingham Evening Post 17 May 1945. The Nottingham Blitz was an attack by the Nazi German Luftwaffe on Nottingham during the night of 8–9 May 1941. [1]
German anti-aircraft shelter from the Second World War at the shipyard in Gdańsk was built without a basement due to the presence of groundwater. Some air-raid shelters were constructed in residential building schemes in anticipation of the Second World War. There is a surviving example at St Leonard's Court in East Sheen, southwest London.
Leeds is a large city in the industrial heartland of the West Riding of Yorkshire.The county's largest city, much of the region's economic, administrative and industrial activities were centred on Leeds which was also an important rail hub.
The Blitz was a German bombing campaign against the United Kingdom for eight months from 7 September 1940 to 11 May 1941 during the Second World War. [4]The Germans conducted mass air attacks against industrial targets, towns, and cities, beginning with raids on London towards the end of the Battle of Britain in 1940 (a battle for daylight air superiority between the Luftwaffe and the Royal ...
A Second World War bomb exploded in an unexpected detonation in a Norfolk town on Friday, 10 February. The large device was discovered at a river crossing in Great Yarmouth on Tuesday, prompting ...
Two MTC personnel pictured with an Air Raid Precautions (ARP) warden in London in 1940. The Mechanised Transport Corps (MTC), sometimes erroneously called the Motor Transport Corps, was a British women's organisation that initially provided its own transport and uniforms and operated during the Second World War.