About this objectProvisional billeting survey form prepared as part of Civil Defence training for nuclear war and its aftermath. This form has not been filled in. A real billeting survey form would have been used by the Civil Defence to survey properties which could accommodate people made homeless by nuclear attack.
The papers 2020.42.1-20 were from a collection held by Margaret and Jack Puddifoot, originally donated in 1995 to the Thornbury Museum in Gloucestershire, where the couple had moved to from Hitchin in the mid 1960s.
When donated to Thornbury, Margaret spoke about her and her husband's fears about the world their children would grow up in "At the time of nuclear proliferation (around the mid 1960s and 1970s) we had three young children and we did not wish for them to face the state of the world, after the 1939-1945 war we had just been through. Many were like us and protested the manufacturing and sale of weapons. We joined the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND) and went on marches against nuclear bombs". It is perhaps this fear that also led Margaret (and perhaps Jack) to join the local Civil Defence when they lived in the Hitchin area.
