Air Raid Precautions Collection (page 3)

Durham is prepared - work underway on an ARP scheme in Durham. 9th September 1939

Newcastles comprehensive scheme for protecting the public during air attacks is still being extended. This picture shows a concrete shelter being constructed at Saville Place

A surface air raid shelter in a backyard which was undamaged when a bomb wrecked a house during a Sunday night raid on the North East. Resident Mrs Jordan was killed in the house. 30/07/1940

Residents of Links Avenue, Monkseaton, who decided to construct their own communal air raid shelter shortly before the start of the Second World War

The air raid shelters in The Side, Newcastle, which were being demolished. 20/04/1998

Londoners use Aldwych Underground Station as an air raid shelter during bomb attacks on London during the Second World War. Circa 1941

Barry Ingham of Ashington High School wearing a World War Two gas mask, March 27, 1981

A concrete air raid shelter being constructed in Saville Place, Newcastle, to protect the public from air attacks. September 1939

Air raid precautions - Men wearing World War Two gas masks and protective clothing, circa 1940, standing in front of an Evening Chronicle van

Work on an A. R. P. air raid shelter in Durham, September 1939
Work on an A.R.P. air raid shelter in Durham, September 1939

Eastenders seen here digging a trench for a communal air raid shelter in their back gardens in East London on the day Hitler and Nazi Germany invade Poland 1st September 1939

Treating a casualty at Bedworth A. R. P. exercixes session. circa 1940
Treating a casualty at Bedworth A.R.P. exercixes session. circa 1940

This scene, on Good Friday, shows the damage in Broadgate, Coventry, after an air raid by the Luftwaffe. A.R.P. wardens are surveying the damage. 11th April 1941

Eastenders seen here digging a trench for a communal air raid shelter in their back gardens in East London on the day Hitler and Nazi Germany invade Poland 1st September 1939

World War II: Blackout. Woman fitting blackout shields to the headlamps of her car. October 1939 P012350

A Sunderland firm converted a boiler into an air raid shelter during the Second World War

Sandbags are placed for the protection of vital buildings in Gateshead in prepartion for air raids. Here workmen place the bags around the childrens hospital. 07/10/1939

Pictured is the Anderson shelter which saved four people when a bomb made the crater in the background during the previous nights air raid over the North-East

A Sunderland firm converted a boiler into air raid shelter. 03 / 08 / 1939
A Sunderland firm converted a boiler into air raid shelter. 03/08/1939

An Anderson air raid shelter under construction in a garden. Circa: 1939

The picture shows the air raid shelter sign on Northumberland Street, Newcastle. 14/12/1939

Students are employed to fill bags with soil to protect Newcastle Dental Hospital in case of enemy attack

The "Best-Kept Gardens"contest for Condercum Estate, Newcastle
The " Best-Kept Gardens" contest for Condercum Estate, Newcastle. Tenants brought to light a new angle on gardening - how to make the A.R.P

Work in progress on one of the air raid shelters which is being constructed by the Newcastle authorities for the residents of Noble Street

Residents of Links Avenue, Monkseaton, who decided to construct their own communal air raid shelter, pictured at work on the first trench, August 1939

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