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Description: | 85 ms/ts letters (118pp) sent between the Institute of Chemistry and Holborn Borough Council, March 1916 - October 1952, relating mainly to the maintenance and administration of the Institute's premises and neighbouring properties in London's Russell Square during the Second World War, with particular reference to bomb damage, civil defence arrangements, and the Council's agreement to take over management of Russell and Bloomsbury Squares for the duration of the war; and also with references to decontamination precautions in the event of a possible gas attack on London (June 1936), a request from the Lord Mayor of London for donations to the King George V National Memorial Fund (September 1936), the poor behaviour of evacuee children from Gibraltar, and requests for higher rations of sugar and coke to be allocated to the Institute. Together with a similar series of 32 ms/ts letters (42pp), July 1938 - June 1945, concerning the requisitioning of the Institute's basement as a public air raid shelter and containing references to thefts from the shelter and the introduction of blackout precautions.
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Catalogue date 1999-01-15 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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