A female Air Raid Precauction warden cleaning a hot water urn in a Civil Defence equipment store, with gas masks, gloves, lanterns and hand bells on the shelves. The ARP service was set up in 1937 to deal with the possible threat of air attacks and exhibitions were held around Lambeth to aid recruitment. In August 1939 all Lambeth’s emergency services were put onto a war footing and the wardens became responsible for enforcing emergency regulations like black-out and, after 1940, for dealing with bomb incidents.Ref: SP2555 ?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A female Air Raid Precauction warden cleaning a hot water urn in a Civil Defence equipment store, with gas masks, gloves, lanterns and hand bells on the shelves. The ARP service was set up in 1937 to deal with the possible threat of air attacks and exhibitions were held around Lambeth to aid recruitment. In […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24117,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,6,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-1926-1950","category-photograph","category-war-and-armed-forces"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n