School Air Raid Shelter, Leicester - April 2011

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Goldie87

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Six of us Leicester lot recently went and took a look at this WW2 air raid shelter in Leicester. It was built for the use of a school, but is surprisingly large with loads of sections going off all over the place. Structually it is still in very sound condition, most of the concrete is undamaged and almost as fresh as the day it was made. The various sections were named after London streets and there was also plenty of old graffiti around. Afraid the pics are not that brilliant as only had a crappy compact on me, an enjoyable explore anyway.

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One section of the shelter

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Looking up one of the original entrances

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Notice

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Remains of a hand cranked ventilation fan below an air shaft

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Section of the shelter with other passageways leading off

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One section in particular was full of this kind of graff lol
 
We just got back from exploring another shelter in Plymouth lol. Nice to see this one & very like the square type round our way. The explicit graf looks more '60s-'70s. Did you make a rough plan of the shelter?

Thanks for sharing by the way & the pics havn't come out too bad!
 
The explicit graf looks more '60s-'70s. Did you make a rough plan of the shelter?!
Yeah think your right about the graff, It was near an old entrance where they were probably getting in. Gonna try and sketch a rough plan up from memory in a bit.

loughborough?;)
Nah this one is in the city lol
 
im with Badoosh on that one... another shelter visited in plymouth = another notch in the bed post ;):lol:

great pics... guess it was a point and shoot on flash?... not dissing but maybe some light painting would help you show this shelter off more :) just a pointer and your trying to draw a map of how the shelter was... haha we tried to do this inside the shelter and we got confused on how it was :mrgreen: it isnt easy!! :D
 
ill let you off just this once ;) ive managed to blag a compact for £60 and it practically does what a DSLR does... but given the chance id used my DSLR any day :) more fun and rewarding with some of the images you get :lol: get back down there dude! :mrgreen:
 
Crackin' stuff Goldie !! You cant beat exploring an old underground air raid shelter for the feeling that maybe,just maybe youre gonna find something that no one else knows about !!:mrgreen: Thanx for the report !!
 

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