Description:During the Second World War air-raid shelters were located in people's gardens but there were also many public shelters too, capable of coping with many people at a time. Some of the back-garden Anderson shelters remain in situ, usually converted to garden sheds, but the public shelters have nearly all disappeared. There are however some exceptions and this is a tour around one such surviving public shelter which is situated on George Road underneath a block of 1920's flats. Since the war it has been used by the caretaker and occupiers of the flats as a storage place. Many clues remain to its past use however.
First stop on the tour is the steps down to the shelter itself. Here they are, from the bottom looking back to the top. The wall to the left is post-war and was put in to divide the entrance for dual use by the flats either side.