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Remember any of these?

Sure do remember The Anderson Shelters. Most gardens had one and guaranteed to have soaking wet floors.We had one in Deal kent, but never used it.

Thinking about it, I think we needed a shelter in our house after the war.
Our dad, his family and a few of their forces mates used to gather to put the world to rights and it was of course inevitable that inter service rivalries came bubbling up and got quite heated as the brown ale vanished.
No wonder mum took all the crockery out of the front room before WW3 started.
Happy days

  Your house sounds like Franks when his dad was around, he'd come home from the pub collecting waifs and strays on the way, he even bought a horse into the house once so I'm told.  , he'd bring blokes home all friendly then they'd end up outside beating 7 bells out of each other. I wouldn't have put up with it but his mum even used to cook for them, madness.

The Bethnal Green tube disaster was a tragic incident in 1943 ... it had been raining, the air raid siren had sounded, as people surged towards the shelter, a new battery of 60 rockets opened up near
by, as the people were starled by the sudden roar, a woman with child near the bottom of the steps slipped
and a man fell over her,then people began to fall
over them. 173 people died,including 27men,84women, and,63 children. The woman suvived, the child died.

It was the noise of our new anti-aircraft battery being launched that started it all off. It were covered up by the government then but all the locals knew about it including my old mum.

It was always difficult to get down there in the dark but most folks knew the way of things.
Don't forget there were always a minimum of a couple of thousand people milling about and 7000 was recorded.

I think someone put a plaque up at the station steps sometime ago.