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Stoke-on-Trent - Advert of the week
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Stoke-on-Trent Civil Defence Corps - 1957 advert
Stoke-on-Trent City Handbook
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members of H.Q. Section, Stoke Civil Defence
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CIVIL DEFENCE "During World War II Civil Defence played a vital part in our Home Defence and, no doubt, contributed not a little to ultimate victory. Although Stoke-on-Trent did not suffer to the same extent as many other towns and cities, the aid and succour rendered to the citizens by the local Civil Defence Services will always be remembered. On 10th August, 1949, Civil Defence regulations came into operation delegating Civil Defence functions to Local Authorities. In Stoke-on-Trent existing officers were appointed to carry out the various Civil Defence functions conferred upon the City by the Home Secretary, and on 15th November, 1949, recruitment for the Civil Defence services commenced, since when Civil Defence has become a permanent part of National and Local Service. In Stoke-on-Trent 3,000 effective trained volunteers are required in peace-time as a nucleus for the 10,000 required in War. The requirements are many and varied, including telephone, wireless and field cable operators, motor cycle despatch riders and people with specialist degrees in the Headquarter Section ; men willing to be trained in special life-saving techniques and first aid, in the Rescue Section ; ambulance drivers, attendants, and first aid specialists in the Ambulance and Casualty Collecting Section. Men and women are required for staffing Rest Centres and Emergency Feeding Centres, amongst other things, in the Welfare Section, and men and women are particularly needed in the Warden Section. The Civil Defence Headquarters is at C.D. House, Cemetery Road, Shelton, telephone No. 21761. Training Centres are provided at Queen's Avenue, Tunstall and at Cheapside, Hanley, in addition, regular training is conducted at Packmoor, Smallthorne, Shelton and Stoke, and an outdoor training site in Newport Lane, Burslem is in constant use. The City of Stoke-on-Trent Civil Defence Association, under the distinguished patronage of the Lord Mayor and Lady Mayoress and of Sir John Hodsoll, Chief Civil Defence Adviser to N.A.T.O., caters for the social and recreational side and has branches in Packmoor, Tunstall, Smallthorne, Hanley, Shelton, Stoke and Fenton. Members take their friends and enjoy the recreational facilities available at Cheapside, Hanley every Tuesday night, which is kept as an open night to foster that spirit of friendship and comradeship indispensable to the Civil Defence Corps."
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