An Introduction.

The 'Civil Defence Is Common Sense'  blog primarily covers the UK’s Civil Defence organisations from its post-war re-establishment in 1948 to its stand down in 1968. 

It will include items on the Civil Defence Corps (CDC), Industrial Civil Defence Service (ICDS), the Auxiliary Fire Service (AFS), National Hospital Service Reserve (NHSR) and the Women’s (Royal) Voluntary Service (W(R)VS).  I aim to record my continuing research on post-war Leicestershire Civil Defence here too.

Other related topics may be included, from time to time,  such as the Royal Observer Corps (ROC) and some military aspects of the Cold War.

My interest in this topic was sparked by a friend of mine who has renovated a ROC post bunker at Buckminster in north-east Leicestershire.  In 2012, we did a Cuban Missile Crisis 50th anniversary event in Buckminster which has now developed into a twice-yearly open day for the bunker and Cold War displays in the village hall.

From these open days, we have moved on to do some work with schools about the Cold War. Now, a small group of reenactment friends have collected enough kit to stage full-blown displays and we did our first big event at Wicksteed Park, Northamptonshire, a few weeks ago.

And finally:

I'll admit that I wanted to call the blog 'The Waking Point' after the CDC recruiting film but it appears that there is a band of that name who have bagged that name on all the different blog sites I looked at.