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Jan 7, 2021 · The first Anderson shelter was erected in a garden in Islington, London, on 25 February 1939. By the time the war broke out in September, around 1.5 million shelters were in place in areas expected to be bombed by the Luftwaffe. During the war a further 2.1 million were erected. The shelters were made of six curved panels of corrugated steel ...
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The corrugated iron roofs of most of the shelters were collected by the authorities at the end of the war. Others were sold to the householders for either 15 shillings or £1, depending on the size. People who bought their shelters often dug them up and re-erected them above ground, fitted them with proper wooden doors, and used them as workshops or...
This steel making company had a large steel mill at Shotton in North Wales. Its official history records that: The company even designed its own shelters, improving on the standard Anderson design by manufacturing semi-circular sheets which did not need to be bolted at the top, and so could be constructed more easily.
German strategic bombing of the UK between 1939 and 1945 killed around 50,000 people. London, Liverpool and Birmingham were the most bombed cities, in that order. Here, above, is a 1945 view of the area around St Paul’s Cathedral in London. Similar attacks on German cities killed around 500,000 – ten times as many. Many of the later attacks were ca...
Oct 6, 2005 · Life in the Anderson Shelter — 1941. By. Beryl Donaldson. By December 1940, I had become bored and restless at the schooling, which was on offer and felt the time had come to leave and seek a ...
Contributed on: 26 April 2005. One day our father got all the family together and explained that war seemed to be on the way and so the powers that be had decided to issue every family with a ...
- Anderson shelters were named after the Minister of Home Security. In November 1938, while serving as Lord Privy Seal and Minister of Home Security, Sir John Anderson was asked by Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain to prepare Britain for defense against bombing raids.
- The shelters could fit up to 6 people. Anderson commissioned engineers William Patterson and Oscar Carl Kerrison to find a viable structure. Their design consisted of 14 steel panels – 8 internal sheets and 6 curved sheets bolted together to cover the structure.
- Anderson shelters were free for some people. Anderson shelters were provided free of charge for people with household annual incomes of less than £250 (equivalent to approximately £14,700 today).
- Anderson shelters were initially pre-emptive. Britain’s preparations for air raid shelters began in 1938, and the first Anderson shelter was set up in Islington, London, in February 1939.
Nov 3, 2005 · A6661514. Contributed on: 03 November 2005. The Anderson Shelter. Towards the end of August 1939 a Plymouth Corporation lorry came along making deliveries at every house both sides of the street ...
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Jun 13, 2024 · The flimsy Anderson shelter did not appear to offer a great deal of protection, but many survived when the buildings next to them did not, and they certainly protected against flying debris. As the historian P. Ziegler states, an Anderson shelter could "resist a 50 kg bomb falling six feet away and a 250 kg bomb at twenty feet" (99-100).
