Plymouth school air raid shelter

The plymouth blitz occured in 1941, when hitlers attack on Britain was at full force,

over several days and nights local fighter sqadrons and nearby Heavy Anti Aircraft batteries (down thomas, maker HAA, penlee and bere alston to name a few) and smaller bofors guns aimed to knock out the enemy.....

meanwhile the masses made for places like this....i believe theres around 100 of these in plymouth, most public parks had several...

ive looked at many sites.....this one finially paid off

visited with scotty & sarah .....



















another good explore!

Nice one. We have only looked at one so far. Theres actually one where I work as well, but not got round to investigating that!

Nice find, any idea on the amount of people this was supposed to be for?

normally about 300, the other one i found was much bigger and around 1000,

Excellent find, like the notices written in pen about no smoking and putting the rubbish in the box at the end lol. And the names of people written in pen in there. Old names too, maybe when it was used as an air raid shelter?

Cheers,

Sal

thanks for this kernow.
This was a bit of eye opener, i would not like to stuck down there durring a bombing raid.

here is some of my pics.


I think this was the loos.






power cables behind the beams.

Nice pics guys! Are you trying to work you way thru them all?

been busy haven't you guys!! another one kernow? cant be many left now mate, scotty...do you ever work or sleep??
Catcha later and pats on the back all round,
Lycos

Nice one! Theres one in Plymouth Uni a big one. I visited it when i was in primary school (many moons ago) Looked just the same as yours.

nice one guys! looks like another good find..... many hours lifting manholes or hours in the library researching? around 100 in plymouth! wow! Im sure you'll be busy working your way through them... how many have you cracked now kernow?

theres two up by the uni.....portland square is the one everybody thinks of - that took a direct hit during the way and (i believe) that was the single biggest loss of life in plymouth during the blitz. aparently theres another one in corbourg st thats open to the public....

Nice one chaps, I love bomb shelters me I just wish I could find some round my way.

Ah i see. Shame so many people did die when they got hit but at the smae time they must have saved far more lives. Open to the public you say? It's just not as much fun is it