Air Raid Shelter Collection (page 2)

The surface street air raid shelters in Glouster Street near Scotswood Road, Newcastle. 11/09/1946

Sixteen women and children were inside the surface air raid shelter nearest the camera when a heavy bomb exploded in the road about three feet from the outer wall

The surface street air raid shelters stand intact following a German raid on the North East. Circa: 1940

Wartime preparations at the Dental Hospital in Newcastle when students took part in a very different kind of drill - filling sandbags in case of air raids. 31/08/1939

By 1941 many Newcastle firms, like this one on City Road, were adopting 24 hour fire-watching with use of roof spotters. 14/01/1941

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

A crowd of excited yougsters watch the delivery of the first consignment of A. R. P
A crowd of excited yougsters watch the delivery of the first consignment of A.R.P. air raid shelters in the Two Ball Lonnen area of Newcastle, February 1939

World War Two Checking door of an air raid shelter 1940 in George Square Glasgow Scotland

An Englishmans home... in an Anderson Shelter

Miss A Potter teaches children in a maths lesson in the Elephant & Castle Underground Station as they shelter during an air raid alert over London. March 1941

A family inside their air-raid shelter during WW2, with the mother cradling her new born baby

Blind children in air raid shelter in London. In September 1940 the Luftwaffe began its bombing campaign over London. For each and every person caught in the Blitz (as these attacks came to be known)

Family in Air raid shelter during WW2

Family coming out of air-raid shelter during WW2

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

People sheltering in air raid shelter. 30th September 1940 first two people on their honeymoon Lance corporal & Mrs Knightley Original Caption. Lance-Corporai Herbert K

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

WW2 Merseyside Air Raid Bomb Damage 1940 The bomb damaged houses in Liverpool following a bombing raid by the Luftwaffe (The German Airforce) during the blitz

World War 2 May 1939 Air Raid Precaution (ARP), Mrs. Dobsons (Middle) Shelter, Park Avenue, Eltham, London

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