RAF aerial photography c.1945-1949 showing the shelter beneath the lawn with 4 escape shafts and pedestrian entrance.
Good to finally get a post in, currently working on an Irish asylum whopper so thought I'd just do a quick one. Whilst out with @Llama @professor_frink @Stitch and @messlessparticle doing this tunnel, Frink spotted a suspiciously rectangular looking mound in an area of lawn on a street corner. His suspicions were that it could have been a Second World War air raid shelter, and when I saw it I was keen to check it out as it fitted the bill exactly as I'd expect for a moderate capacity public shelter. We had a quick look to conclude our fruitful evening.
Can't find any exact history on it, although it is of pretty standard reinforced concrete design going round in a sort of square roughly '8'-shape. Original pedestrian entrance has been filled in. It was sadly devoid of furniture, with no signs of benches and just a few rusty old pots knocking about. However, there was a few nice bits of wartime graffiti. The floor was absolutely sodden with thick black sludge, and after doing a lap of the shelter and taking some photos being careful to avoid slippage, @messlessparticle sadly took one for the team.
"So I reckon Chabuddy G's van is about here..."
Original Killroy woz 'ere - type graffiti reading 'Come to Calais Joe'
Original swastika graffiti
Popeye-ish?
This gives you an idea of the sludge.
That's all folks
