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Message: Emoticon Listing HTML Help	[quote]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.[/quote]
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Azzabuv

This message was updated on 5/29/2005 4:27:53 PM by Azzabuv

Air-raid Shelters
replied 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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