Air Raid Shelters
NextBack“Many of the men who had not been sent overseas took to building air-raid shelters. The shelter was usually in the garden and was little more than a large hole, inlaid with corrugated iron and covered with earth and was cramped, cold and inconvenient. I remembers the air-raid shelter in Clarkes Yard.”
“The showmen dug a pit took all the steel plates off the dodgems and laid them across the top of the pit to create a steel-lined ceiling .It was not very wide, about eight feet ten inches (just over 2 1/2 metres). but quite long, thirty or forty feet (about 11 metres). It had benches along each side. When the siren went we had to leave whatever we were doing and go down the shelter. I remember that during the Redditch Carnival the siren went two or three times''