ARP Shelter toilets at George Road
The toilet cubicles in the shelter are between the main rooms. All of the doors have now gone but some of the pans and cisterns remain, one or two still being apparently useable.
George Road ARP Shelter
The fuse box inside the underground shelter. The shelter has not been used since World War II but is still there underneath the George Road flats and retains some of the fixtures and fittings. The fuse ...
Housing conditions
November 1975. Residents of two streets, George Street and Homer Street in Balsall Heath went to court to force the council to re-house them. This was the cover story in the November 1975 edition of The ...
Sleeping area in a public air-raid shelter
This room would have had long bunk bed style beds in it and was capable of holding many people during an air-raid. Note the grill on the left hand wall for ventilation and the supproting iron beam in ...