Kaga simpson Peacehaven, East Sussex All posts by this member | 76 of 84 Sat 2nd Sep 2017 3:46pm Member: Joined Sep 2014 Total posts:3774 It seems odd to be talking of underground bunkers/fall-out shelters today, with the recent reports of North Korea in the headlines, for it was North Korea/Russia-Communism in 1950 that made us build them in the first place.
At the end of WW2 it took three years to get all the troops back home that had been enlisted men, but the MoD did not let go, a number of the forces were placed on reservist list for a number of years - one telegram and you were back to military life regardless of employment, marriage etc.
I believe 1950, Civil Defence started to build fall-out shelters and started drills for such etc, maybe Radford Kid may know?
But the build up of troops to Korea at one time had me expecting a telegram, fortunately for me it never came, but the cold war became worse. Through the years we had the Bay of Pigs, Vietnam, Greenham Common etc. It still goes on.
AB was 'Alternative to Bread'. Me, I preferred the Dark Chocolate army ration. |
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Kaga simpson Peacehaven, East Sussex All posts by this member | 77 of 84 Wed 6th Sep 2017 12:48pm Member: Joined Sep 2014 Total posts:3774 1939 to 1945 bread and flour was not rationed so biscuits to soak was never mentioned to my knowledge. |
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NeilsYard Coventry All posts by this member | 78 of 84 Wed 11th Oct 2017 12:48pm Member: Joined Aug 2010 Total posts:2857 I'm hoping this will be viewable to all - please let me know if not. The Earlsdon History Facebook page has just shared these amazing images of an air raid shelter in a garage in Stoneleigh Avenue! Earlsdon History FB Page |
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coventry49 Budleigh Salterton, Devon All posts by this member | 79 of 84 Wed 11th Oct 2017 2:17pm Member: Joined Jan 2015 Total posts:193 Hi Neil
Does Stoneleigh Avenue back onto Warwick Avenue? |
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NeilsYard Coventry All posts by this member | 80 of 84 Wed 11th Oct 2017 2:53pm Member: Joined Aug 2010 Total posts:2857 Not quite Rosemary ![]() ![]() |
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coventry49 Budleigh Salterton, Devon All posts by this member | 81 of 84 Wed 11th Oct 2017 3:45pm Member: Joined Jan 2015 Total posts:193 Thanks Neil, I think I can picture it. Unfortunately I disposed of my old A-Z of Coventry when I moved down here! |
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Kaga simpson Peacehaven, East Sussex All posts by this member | 82 of 84 Fri 20th Nov 2020 9:58am Member: Joined Sep 2014 Total posts:3774 ...the Council made their mistakes before the raid, like issuing hundreds of Anderson shelters, instructing people to put earth over them, then constructing street shelters and placing great concrete slabs over them.
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Prof Gloucester All posts by this member | 83 of 84 Fri 20th Nov 2020 4:56pm Member: Joined Jul 2014 Total posts:1531 I feel sure that Anderson and the indoor shelter in many cases saved lives. We used our Anderson as did my grandfather his, but neither had a direct hit. Outside Stoke National School on the green was a brick air-raid shelter, we had to line up for drill rehearsals. Also another in the playground at Folly Lane, but by the time I was there it had fallen out of use (1946). |
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Kaga simpson Peacehaven, East Sussex All posts by this member | 84 of 84 Sat 21st Nov 2020 10:34am Member: Joined Sep 2014 Total posts:3774 Prof, the Anderson was brilliant, it was the council-built ones that crushed over a dozen people. |
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