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Today the only school shelter open to the public is underneath a playground at Downs Junior School in Brighton. The shelter, or ‘trenches’ as it was known, are a series of interconnecting tunnels made from pre-cast concrete panels approximately 3 metres below the playground.
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Come and meet Alan, Ann or David in the Take Shelter Museum...
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Plan Your Visit. Take Shelter is located at Downs Junior...
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Take Shelter Downs Junior School, Rugby Road, Brighton, East...
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At the end of their visit pupils will receive a worksheet...
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A formal open was held in April 2023 with the Lord...
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Book here for one of our monthly open days. We are open for tours and much more on the first Sunday of each month during term time. At each of our community open mornings you can: Explore our unique underground air raid shelter with our friendly volunteer guides (tickets required).
Plan Your Visit. Take Shelter is located at Downs Junior School which is on Rugby Road, Brighton, East Sussex. BN1 6ED. For our open days and events please use the entrance on Ditchling Road.
Contact information TAKE SHELTER. Charity number: 1202472 Recently registered skip-to-content ... BRIGHTON East Sussex BN1 6ED . Phone: 01273558422 Email: ...
Take Shelter is an immersive museum that we’ve installed inside an original World War Two air raid shelter at Downs Junior School. Visitors experience what life was like during the war years with first hand stories brought to life with rare local photographs, archive video clips and a bombing simulation.
Take Shelter. A not-for-profit team offering local living history about life during WW2. We have renovated and opened an...
The shelter now has a new accessible entrance allowing more people to experience this immersive shelter tour which includes archive film from SASE, a museum and the opportunity for refreshments and a conversation with wartime veterans who attended the school.
