The black and white photo is little baby Elizabeth Weaver and her Auntie Betty beside their ‘Anderson’ air raid shelter in the back garden. The photo is from the late 1940s, and Anderson Shelters had given way by then to become useful garden huts. Elizabeth said, “It used to warm up in the summer and […]
Margaret Campbell shared this lovely family photo taken during the early 1940s. Margaret told me, “This is one of Mum & Dad taken from 1 Priory Rd with the old air raid shelter. The photo was taken during the Second World War when they were courting. The roof line of buildings behind were the shops […]
Betty McLean in Canada asks, “I am wondering if you have done any research on streets where there may have been air raid shelters? I think there was an Anderson shelter in the back garden in the house next door to 61 Welsh Drive where I lived with my parents and grandfather. I also […]
In November 1940, the county council were forced to issue a statement about the provision of Air raid shelters. The County A.R.P. Controller (Mr W.H. Rodger,) in a report to the County Council, stated that the Government having meantime suspended the delivery of Anderson Steel air-raid shelters forced a situation where the Ministry of Home […]
I look back at this photo with fond memories. The little boy is me! The girl, my friend and neighbour, Lesley Addison. This was in the back garden of the Veverka home at Stonefield Crescent. Our old Anderson Shelter in the background and the beginning of mum’s beautiful gardens. I still cant believe I had […]
Another great photo from Betty Weaver. Betty described this photo in some detail, “Me, aged 4, with my brother Brian aged 1, in the back garden of 104 Victoria St in 1951. Note the Anderson shelter – used by then for keeping coal in. We used to climb up on the top in the summer, […]