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annancliffe	Air-raid Shelters replied on: 6/15/2008 10:01:10 AM I remember that shelter very well. I attended Commonside School in 1958 and we were told by the teachers not to go near it - if I remember correctly, it had an iron gate across it and stories went around by us kids there was a dragon down there !!! Never went near it after that! Ann Marie
Jenks	Air-raid Shelters replied on: 6/14/2008 9:51:02 PM There was an air-raid shelter at Commonside infants school on Thorpes Road. It was grassed over with steps going down at each end, very damp and smelly. This was around 1954/58. Jenks
philfred	Air-raid Shelters replied on: 2/12/2008 3:39:10 PM Hello Robert, it just seemed to all fit together, in my mind, with the Technical School, shelters and school being so close together. regards Phil
Peter Chamberlain Researcher	Air-raid Shelters replied on: 2/10/2008 8:49:44 AM During the War[sound like Uncle Albert] The Miners Hostel was situated behind the Co-op Dairy At Eastwood later to become The Mushroom farm,And now Swallowed up by Warburtons Bakery. When i entered the mines(1950)training was at Shipley Woodside but this was a new concept previous to this training was at Hartsey colliery for new entrants from the Heanor and Langley Mill Areas
RMMee Moderator This message was updated on 2/10/2008 3:04:35 AM by RMMee	Air-raid Shelters replied on: 2/10/2008 3:01:27 AM quote: The shelters would be very close to underground roadways in width and height so could have been used in the training of Bevin Boys. The accomodation would have been the school building(s) with theory training at the technical school at the other end of the footpath. The initial training of Bevin Boys was for six weeks then on to work proper, with lodging near to the pit. Phil, I'm a bit confused re this. Was the Lockton Avenue Girls' School used for the accommodation of Bevin Boys? Were the HGS shelters used for training purposes for Bevin Boys? Or was this just a proposed activity? I have seen no reference to the shelters being so used in the HGS Governors' minutes, though it is possible that in wartime they would not have discussed it, but rather just got on with it.
philfred	Air-raid Shelters replied on: 2/10/2008 12:59:12 AM Some thoughts on the 2 Shelters on the HGS playing field. On the opposite side of the footpath was Lockton Avenue Girls School, either one or two wooden buildings. The shelters would be very close to underground roadways in width and height so could have been used in the training of Bevin Boys. The accomodation would have been the school building(s) with theory training at the technical school at the other end of the footpath. The initial training of Bevin Boys was for six weeks then on to work proper, with lodging near to the pit. I've probably got it wrapped round my neck but someone will put it right. regards Phil
WesleyLees	Air-raid Shelters replied on: 5/2/2007 3:03:52 PM I went to Langley Mill Junior Mixed (previously Langley Mill Girls School), which had two air-raid shelters still there when I was at the school 1958-60. They were just past the canteen which was built in a war prefab. They were the type that were half built into the ground, with steps down at both ends. I presume this was so there was two exits in case a bomb destroyed one entrance.
Iceboy53	Air-raid Shelters replied on: 2/27/2006 10:14:59 AM it's a derbyshire gov site,if you type in heanor air raid shelters in google it will give you an option of viewing html,this is what you have to click on.the heading is "2 proposed replacement juniour school on land off lockton ave".
RMMee Moderator	Air-raid Shelters replied on: 2/26/2006 11:39:47 PM Whereabouts at the school was that Ian? I can't remember it myself.
.ian.	Air-raid Shelters replied on: 2/26/2006 11:23:42 PM 1 at Sedgwick street Junior school when I was there in 1967
RMMee Moderator	Air-raid Shelters replied on: 2/26/2006 11:21:03 PM Which site talks about that, Ice?
Iceboy53	Air-raid Shelters 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.
paulr	Air-raid Shelters 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.
RNewman	Air-raid Shelters replied on: 1/30/2006 1:11:45 PM quote: 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. 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
RMMee Moderator	Air-raid Shelters 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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