A CASUALTY is carefully brought out of a wrecked building by dedicated rescue workers.

This was not a real emergency, but an exercise to test the effectiveness of Civil Defence volunteers.

The Civil Defence Corps was set up to take pressure off the emergency services in the event of war or other catastrophe.

Regular exercises were held to make sure members were ready to answer any urgent call.

This picture was taken at Kidlington in 1964 during a county-wide exercise in which 1,000 Civil Defence workers took part.

The Civil Defence Corps was disbanded four years later, in 1968.