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| Azzabuv Quote | Reply | This message was updated on 5/29/2005 4:27:53 PM by Azzabuv | Air-raid Shelters posted on: 5/29/2005 4:27:05 PM The only one which i ever saw in Heanor, lay just off Loscoe Rd; and halfway down on the right, facing the jitty leading to Joan's Avenue. It was a large, oblong brick building with a flat concrete roof. There was one narrow doorway, the inside being totally bare and capable of holding a hundred people plus. It was demolished a few years after the War. In S.Yorks. most homes had a tin roofed, bulging tin sided shelter, partially buried and situated in the garden. What use these would have been in the case of a near dropped bomb miss is anyone's guess. Apparently alright for incendaries though. At least, bricks were stronger (for awhile?) in such circumstances. Azzabuv. |
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Peter Chamberlain
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replied on: 5/30/2005 8:07:39 AM Two shelters on Elnor street at Langley Mill remember had seats round the walls thick concrete roof but for some reason no doors. Azz are you and i the only 2 out of 130 contributors to admit to remembering the war Peter |
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Peter Chamberlain
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replied on: 6/1/2005 9:40:42 AM Does anyone recall the other type of air raid shelters made out of steel with wire mesh sides they served as a table we had one in the front room it was a great play area only remember using it once in anger that was when they dropped the bombs in the fields at Aldercar.Remember Dad kept all his "Dads Army"equipment in it and after tucking everybody in it was the only night i recall him going out on duty. |
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frano
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replied on: 6/1/2005 3:15:52 PM There were two brick built shelters on Nook End Rd at the side of the Cross Keys pub. There were oil lamps built into the brickwork on the corners so that no one ran into them |
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RMMee
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replied on: 6/1/2005 5:07:46 PM Weren't there some large shelters on the Grammar School playing fields? I seem to remember them still being there in the 70's. |
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frano
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replied on: 6/1/2005 8:55:47 PM I can't remember them but there were three underground shelters in Mundy St School playground. The entrance steps were covered over by thick boards rather like a garage pit. I often wonder if they are still there with the entrances filled in. |
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Azzabuv
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replied on: 6/1/2005 9:16:54 PM You've jogged the few memory cells remaining here, Robert. I don't know whether you mean the same ones, but there were two shelters, situated practically side by side and three-quarters buried in the front grassy area of the old Library Site. They were long and narrow, with quite an amount of room inside, their roofs were made of brick and semi-circular in shape. At a guess, i'd say they were 50 feet in length approximately, by about 15 feet or so wide. But that's only a rough estimate of their size. I only went down one of them once. So, the people in power then, were actually concerned for the safety of the local populace. I can't say the same for the so-called 'powers' that 'rule' today. Azzabuv. |
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Iceboy53
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replied on: 6/2/2005 12:15:02 AM there is or was one on the site of the new houses near heanor welfare. i should think they have filled it in now. |
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suzard
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replied on: 6/2/2005 6:47:18 PM I remember the air raid shelter on H G S Playing field, Robert- we used to have a sneaky rest behind them when Miss Lovely had ordered us to run around the field perimeter |
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RMMee
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replied on: 6/2/2005 7:11:29 PM As long as it was only a rest!!! Yes, they are gone now, with the new housing development, but I remember two or was it three long humps in the ground, at the far end of the playing fields, over towards Stainsby Avenue. |
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RNewman
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replied on: 1/30/2006 1:11:45 PM quote: I remember them from when I was at Munday street in the early 60's, at that time the entrances were covered by concrete slabs. While I was there a roller went through one of the slabs while re-surfacing part of the playground, we were kept well back but I can remember seeing the steps quite clearly |
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paulr
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replied on: 2/25/2006 7:54:07 PM There was an air-raid shelter on Thompson Street outside of our house, it was brick built with a thick concrete roof,with two doors and built almost halfway across the street and the length of our house No.20 & that of No.18. Both Dad and next door had keys.I can't put a date to it, but I do remember Frank Sissons men coming with a small crane with a big steel ball on a hawser to knock it down.Dad scrounged the door for his shed. |
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Iceboy53
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replied on: 2/26/2006 10:59:09 AM the argument againts the building of a new school on the playing fields actually includes the "loss of two air raid shelters" on the site.i would give you a link but the site won't let me do it. |
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RMMee
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replied on: 2/26/2006 11:21:03 PM Which site talks about that, Ice? |
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.ian.
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replied on: 2/26/2006 11:23:42 PM 1 at Sedgwick street Junior school when I was there in 1967 |
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RMMee
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replied on: 2/26/2006 11:39:47 PM Whereabouts at the school was that Ian? I can't remember it myself. |
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