Care of the Homeless: Emergency Rest and Feeding Centre Scheme, issued by Newcastle City Council, 1943

Between July 1940 and December 1941, a series of bombing raids that became known as the Newcastle blitz left hundreds in the city dead and injured and thousands more without a home. Following guidance from the Ministry of Health, Newcastle Council set up ‘rest centres’ and printed this pamphlet to give instructions on where to send people whose homes had been destroyed to receive support, food and healthcare.

In July 1944, the rest centres were reopened to house people from London and the South of England, ‘evacuated on account of the flying bomb menace’.