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I spent my early years in the west Manchester area (Urmston, Flixton and Davyhulme), and during WWII, we had an air-raid shelter delivered, and erected in our front room. The web based history sites list two types of air-raid shelter - Anderson and Morrison. My grandmother who lived a short distance away in Urmston had an Anderson shelter (half-buried) in her rear garden so I know what they looked like, and some of our neighbours had Morrison shelters with their flat tops, and vertical coarse wire-mesh sides.
What I'm hoping for information on is a name for the steel walled and roofed air raid shelter that we had. After the war, many of them were dismantled and re-erected as coal shelters in peoples' gardens.
Design-wise, it had short vertical side-walls on top of which the roof sloped on each side, with a flat roof area. The front was open, and there was a thinner steel sheet at the head end. It was made of heavy gauge steel sheet, bolted together, After the war, most people re-erected them in the garden and used them as a coal store. It was wide enough to take my parents with me sleeping between them.
Any ideas for a name? Many thanks
What I'm hoping for information on is a name for the steel walled and roofed air raid shelter that we had. After the war, many of them were dismantled and re-erected as coal shelters in peoples' gardens.
Design-wise, it had short vertical side-walls on top of which the roof sloped on each side, with a flat roof area. The front was open, and there was a thinner steel sheet at the head end. It was made of heavy gauge steel sheet, bolted together, After the war, most people re-erected them in the garden and used them as a coal store. It was wide enough to take my parents with me sleeping between them.
Any ideas for a name? Many thanks