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	Air-raid shelter - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Air raid shelters are structures for the protection of the civil population as well as military personnel against enemy attacks from the air.
		Air raid shelters were built specifically to serve as protection against enemy air raids.
		Alternatives had to be found speedily once it became clear that air raids were being contemplated by Germany as a means of demoralising the population and disrupting supply lines in Britain.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Air-raid_shelter (2823 words)

	Air Raid Precautions - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		During the Second World War, ARP was responsible for the handing out of gas masks, pre-fabricated air-raid shelters (such as Anderson shelters, as well as Morrison shelters), the upkeep of local public shelters, the maintenance of the blackout and the rescue of people after raids.
		Air Raid Precautions (ARP) was an organization in the United Kingdom dedicated to the protection of civilians from the danger of air-raids.
		In 1938 the Air Ministry predicted 70,000 casualties a week—in the first month of war the British government was expecting a million casualties, 3 million refugees and the majority of the capital destroyed.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Air_Raid_Precautions (593 words)

	Stephen Hussey The School Air-Raid Shelter: Rethinking Wartime Pedagogies History of Education Quarterly, 43.4 The History Cooperative
		Air raids were unpredictable and of irregular length, characteristics that present difficulties in estimating their precise part in the daily pattern of wartime inner-city schools.
		For contemporary observers and for historians of education, air raids have been cast as a disruptive influence upon the proper practice of education and as a sign of the general dislocation brought to the classroom by war.
		Fearing that the shelters may fill with water the board advised that their floors should slope, with a sump being located at one end of the trench, and that "provision must be made for pumping or bailing out this sump." Flooring should be of wooden duckboards or of cinders or ballast.
	www.historycooperative.org /journals/heq/43.4/hussey.html (9061 words)

	Air Raid Shelter
		Shelters for the use of travellers in buses or passers-by were palced near the main roads.
		The shelter was placed as near the house as possible and with the door facing the house wall.
		These shelters could bear the weight of house debris and the only risk was if the debris caught fire.
	www.westallswar.org.uk /new_shelter.html (592 words)

	Air Raid Shelter
		During the second world war several air raid shelters were dug round Didcot shed and yards, for the protection of the workers from any bombers that attacked.
		One of the air raid shelters is open to the public, the entrance being between the shop and first aid room.
		Although Didcot was a major depot, with a large military depot where the power station is now, and on the main north/south route avoiding London it didn't suffer from heavy bombardment.
	www.baldric.plus.com /didcot/maps/airshelt.htm (95 words)

	Decoy Site Air-Raid Shelter
		These air-raid shelters were provided by the admiralty when the decoy munitions dump was constructed, and built by Ellis the builders, of Maryport.
		This shelter is used these days to store agricultural sundries and to support the farm diesel tanks.
		The shelter is 13'10" long, 6'10" wide, and 8'7" high, including a 5" concrete roof (external dimensions!).
	www.users.globalnet.co.uk /~rwbarnes/defence/dearham.htm (354 words)

	Subterranea Britannica: Sites:Charlwood Air Raid Shelter
		A semi sunken air raid shelter stands in a wooded garden at thew rear of a private house on the east side of Lowfield Heath Road, Charlwood.
		The air riad shelter dates from this period.
		The air riad sheleter is of brick concstruction with a concrete roof.
	www.subbrit.org.uk /sb-sites/sites/c/charlwood_air_raid_shelter/index.shtml (121 words)

	Midlands Memories: The Midlands At War: Information
		Air raid shelters are still being supplied and those Wolverhampton people who have not yet been provided should register at once at the ARP headquarters in Railway Street.
		People who, in the first place, refused to have an air raid shelter are now clamouring for them.
		So far nearly 10,000 shelters have been supplied, and another 1,000 applications are being dealt with.
	content.blackcountry.com /mm/publish/article_274.php (99 words)

	Report Of Professor Robert Jan Van Pelt
		One of the problems in the air raid shelter theory is that none of the plans of morgue 1 or crematorium 2 and 3 shows what is a necessary standard feature of any air raid shelter: an emergency exit.
		From the beginning, all German air raid shelters were designed to protect against poison gas as well as against bombs.
		Description and drawing* of air raid protection tunnel frame made from concrete, which can be delivered immediately from our yard at a suburban railway station in Berlin by railway or road truck.
	www.holocaust-history.org /irving-david/vanpelt/vanpelt-airraid.shtml (4581 words)

	The Air-raid Shelter Museum in Hamburg-Hamm
		The Air-raid Shelter Museum is situated in the district of Hamm, close to the City Centre.
		The underground 4 chamber air-raid shelter from 1940/41 has been restored to its original state with re-built furniture so that the building itself constitutes an essential part of the whole exhibition.
		The air-raid shelter consists of an entrance area with steps going down, and a gas-proof lock leading to 4 elongated chambers (6 feet wide, 56 feet long and 7 feet high) each seating 50 persons.
	www.hh-hamm.de /BUNK_ENG.HTM (501 words)

	Anderson shelter - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Anderson shelter
		In the UK, a simple air-raid shelter used during World War II which could be erected in a garden to provide protection for a family.
		Tens of thousands were produced and they undoubtedly saved thousands of lives during the air raids on the UK.
		This information should not be considered complete, up to date, and is not intended to be used in place of a visit, consultation, or advice of a legal, medical, or any other professional.
	encyclopedia.farlex.com /Anderson+shelter (115 words)

	Coulsdon Air Raid Shelter
		It is possible that this air raid shelter was built not for the local residents but for the nearby Cane Hill mental hospital.
		The poor quality of the picture is due to the air conditions in this part of the shelter.
		The shelter is in a ditch, but the original entrance was backfilled some time ago.
	www.undergroundkent.co.uk /coulsdon_air_raid_shelter.htm (235 words)

	Berlin air raid shelters
		Lower parts of the towers were designated as shelter for the civilian population during air raids and it is said that up to18000 could shelter within.
		In 1935-6 the Old Reichs Chancellery on the Willhemstrasse was extended at the rear and a "Diplomat's Hall" was constructed with an air raid shelter underneath, principly for Hilter and his entourage.
		Parts of the tower were designated for use during air raids by the civilian population and as hospital.
	www.geocities.com /lupinpooter/berlin.htm (1342 words)

	CHAMP - Air Raid Shelter Restoration Project
		The aim is to make the interior of the shelter as authentic as possible and we would like to hear from anyone who remembers using any of the air raid shelters in Barton, particularly the one in Hoydyke.
		CHAMP and the Museum Education Service are at the beginning of a project to restore and open the Air Raid Shelter at 50, Holydyke.
		The shelter will be equipped with a sound system which will enable visitors to listen to sirens and recollections of people who used the shelter.
	www.barton-net.org /whatson/airraid.html (169 words)

	BBC - WW2 People's War - Air raid shelter - A1144982
		When war started there were not many air-raid shelters available and my father got together with our next-door neighbour to make a shelter in our garden.
		BBC - WW2 People's War - Air raid shelter - A1144982
		So if he had to go out at night to a power station during an air- raid he would be given priority along the road.
	www.bbc.co.uk /dna/ww2/A1144982 (874 words)

	Illawarra Historical Society - Museum Air Raid Shelter
		The air raid shelter is located at the rear of the building.
		The Illawarra Historical Society has used the air raid shelter as a display area depicting various items used by the people of Illawarra during the war years, such as knitting patterns and sheet music.
		The air raid shelter was built during World War II.
	www.illawarramuseum.com /museum_featuresShelter.htm (132 words)

	Air Raid
		In the worst single incident, 450 were killed when a bomb destroyed a school being used as an air raid shelter.
		A brief history of the air raid, along with related photographs and documents.
		Information on air raid sirens and other siren and warning devices.
	www.computerrecovery.us /Data/Air-Raid.html (158 words)

	Epsom Air Raid Shelter
		Epsom air raid shelter is still in very good condition, with the exception of a lot of graffiti in the first two side rooms.
		There are a lot of features in the shelter, and the purposes of some of these features is still open to conjecture.
		The shelter is accessible via the original main entrance.
	www.undergroundkent.co.uk /epsom_air_raid_shelter.htm (310 words)

	USHMM displays air-raid shelter door as gas chamber door
		A standard air-raid shelter door is displayed at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum along with the claim that it is a casting of the door to a homicidal gassing chamber at the Majdanek concentration camp.
		A remarkably sinister rendering of the air raid shelter door casting at the USHMM, found at their student outreach web offering.
		(See: Technique and Operation of German Anti-Gas Shelters in World War II, by Samuel Crowell) As noted in the Crowell article, and several more to come, it has recently been discovered that German air-raid shelters were required to also provide protection against gas attack.
	www.codoh.com /gcgv/gcturen.html (1182 words)

	Air Raid Shelters
		Cellars and basements were requisitioned for air raid shelters and trenches were dug in the parks of large towns.
		When air raids are threatened, warning will be given in towns by sirens, or hooters which will be sounded in some places by short blasts and in others by a warbling note, changing every few seconds.
		The A. (Air Raid Precautions) defences and expense are founded upon a wholly fallacious view of the degree of danger to each part of the country which they cover.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /2WWshelters.htm (5528 words)

	Air Raid Shelters
		One countermeasure to the 'deep shelter mentality' and to ensure the widest possible dispersion of civilians during a raid was by distributing shelters which could be erected in householders' gardens.
		Although the Anderson shelter was liable to flooding, it proved itself to be remarkably effective during the blitz.
		That first winter of 1939/40 the shelters were not needed though, when the rains came and they flooded, they provided valuable training to the Auxiliary Fire Service in the use of their suction hose.
	www.fortunecity.co.uk /meltingpot/oxford/330/shel/shel2.html (468 words)

	Air Raid Wardens+england
		Air raid disaster in North Shields explored through archive sources, eye witness accounts and the works of Robert Westall.
		The Air Raid Wardens on duty that night found themselves with a mutiny on their hands and no amount of...
		Air Raid Wardens (1943) Directed by Edward Sedgwick Writing credits Martin Rackin and Harry Crane...
	www.computerrecovery.us /Data/air-raid-wardens-england.html (256 words)

	Clifford Road Air Raid Shelter Museum
		This was partly due to the efforts of the controversial local MP, Richard Stokes, who campaigned for massive public air-raid shelters to be built under Alexandra Park.
		The shelter was built in Ipswich during the first three months of the war, and was unusually robust compared to other public provisions.
		After the war, the shelter was sealed up and largely forgotten.
	www.cliffordroadshelter.org.uk (136 words)

	REPLY TO SAMUEL CROWELL'S "COMMENTS"
		Mattogno argues that the morgue's ventilation capacity was inadequate for an air raid shelter.
		So if the equipment of air raid shelters does not appear at all in the "übergabeverhandlung" of the crematoria, then they (their "Leichenkeller") were also not projected as gas tight bomb shelters.
		The only way in which air raid shelter provisions HAD to be described in terms of the transfer documents would be if their inclusion was essential to the operation of the crematoria.
	www.vho.org /GB/c/CM/reply.html (6613 words)

	air raid
		Air raid shelters are structures for the protection of the civil population as well as military personnel against enemy attacks from the air.
		Air Raid - This Is Not A Drill!
		Before the Second World War there was no system for warning the general population of an impending air raid other than with hand bells, rattles and whistles as had been used in the Great War.
	www.11-lapidary.com /4/air-raid.html (456 words)

	Air Raid Precautions
		Air Raid Precautions (ARP) is one of the most remembered aspects of home-front Australia.
		On 1 November 1942, extensive ARP exercises were carried out under air raid conditions by 5,000 ARP workers in seven municipalities of the city of Melbourne under air raid conditions.
		Dr William Read, a First World War veteran and local air raid warden, made and used these 12 model buildings to plan ARP exercises.
	www.awm.gov.au /underattack/mobilise/precautions.asp (282 words)

	devonport high school for boys plymouth air raid shelter
		World War II in Plymouth saw the consrtuction of many public underground air raid shelters - see my other pages on this subject.
		The big space in the foreground is where the school was, the shelter is basically the huge concrete mass in the background.
		So for the past 10 years the shelter and all that in it slept as it has since the war, although evidence points to it be used by the Civil Defence as a Training Location in the 1950`s.
	www.cyber-heritage.co.uk /shelter (922 words)

	Air Raid Shelters
		Air raid shelters were built in the Arboretum in preparation for possible air raids
		Left, the Reginald Street Air Raid Shelter is finally demolished, Wednesday October 20th 2004.
		The greenhouses were used for growing tomatoes, with lessons in growing tomatoes being given to local people by the park's gardeners.
	www.derbyarboretum.co.uk /Dig.htm (330 words)

	Port Cities: - Air Raid Shelters
		The public air raid shelter in Garfield Street is still standing despite the fact that a high explosive (HE) bomb exploded just a few feet away from it
		Provision of Air Raid Shelters - illustration of the individual parts of an Anderson shelter
		This card was one from the 'Air Raid Precautions' series produced by Hignett Bros and Co.
	www.mersey-gateway.org /server.php?show=ConGallery.45 (76 words)

	Air Raid Shelter at Salisbury - near old Rocklea Munitions Factory
		There is a small concrete Air Raid Shelter between one of the original old Rocklea Munitions Factory buildings on corner of Chrome St. and Commerce St. at Salisbury and the small
		Air Raid Shelter at Salisbury - near old Rocklea Munitions Factory
		Photo of Air Raid Shelter taken 6 May 2001
	home.st.net.au /~pdunn/ozatwar/arbunker01.htm (83 words)

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