Air Raid shelter

[Newage]

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for some reason the picture I added didnt come through, let try again.

This is the RAF Edge Hill stanton.

Cheers Newage

 

[Simon_sanigar]

*newage* That looks cool

 

[HughieD]

The Grantham Walton is "Waltham on the Wolds" to give it its full name - so a different one from your Waltham up near Grimsby...

 

[Ramsgatonian]

Thanks for sharing, looks interesting.

 

[outkast]

Raf langar perhaps?

 

[sennelager66]

Hi

Since these are Stanton airraid shelters which are normaly found on WW2 airfields, the qustions is which Airfield?

Cheers Newage

My thinking also. A search of the vicinity might yield a few clues. Sometimes eroded pathways are hidden and a slight dip in the lay of the land could indicate this. It is also heavily exposed to the elements and would have had protecting banking up its sides.

 

[Paulytwotanks]

We had several of these near to Tibenham airfield in Norfolk but they all got demolished in the 1980's which I thought was sad as we loved playing in them as kids. Our ones were partially buried as others have suggested and they had the ladder tower at one end, plus a brick entrance the other end, so that you approached into the brick entrance at 90 degrees to the shelter, then turned and entered the shelter. I always thought the brick entrance looked a bit like going into an old public loo. And sometimes thats exactly how the shelters smelled like inside!

 

[ImmortalShadow]

What a cool find! Thanks for sharing

 

[RichCooper]

My thinking also. A search of the vicinity might yield a few clues. Sometimes eroded pathways are hidden and a slight dip in the lay of the land could indicate this. It is also heavily exposed to the elements and would have had protecting banking up its sides.

RAF Grimsby

 

[sennelager66]

Question for you Rucg. My photos in earlier posts are missing. Any ideas on why this could happen.

 

[RichCooper]

did you move em ?

 

[sennelager66]

No mate. Strange.

 

[TeeJF]

I look at that and I think, apart from shrapnel you'd have been almost as safe sitting under a tree!!!