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By the outbreak of World War II in September 1939, Anderson shelters had been installed in the gardens of around 1.5 million houses in the areas most expected to be targeted by the Luftwaffe. A further 2.1 million were installed over the course of the war.
- The shelters
This section lists the 14 Anderson shelters in England which...
- Design & Construction
As a result, some Anderson shelters are in pretty good...
- Other shelters
A shelter for workers on the Bridgewater Canal; Three...
- Reminiscences
We had an Anderson shelter in our back garden in Manchester....
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- History
The first ‘Anderson’ shelter was erected in a garden in...
- Brockley, London
This a wonderfully well-preserved shelter in Brockley,...
- Cheadle, Cheshire
This is an unusual shelter In Cheadle, south of Manchester....
- The shelters
The first ‘Anderson’ shelter was erected in a garden in Islington, London on 25 February 1939 and, between then and the outbreak of the war in September, around 1.5 million shelters were distributed to people living in areas expected to be bombed by the Luftwaffe.
7 Οκτ 2022 · Close to 3 million Anderson shelters were erected across Britain during the Second World War. Anderson shelters tended to become waterlogged in winter, making them freezing cold and deeply unpleasant places to be. In response, the government developed a shelter that could be used within the home.
Over 1.5 million Anderson shelters were given out before the start of WW2. They were distributed between February 1939 and the start of the Second World War that September. The shelters were given to people in areas that were at risk of being bombed by the Germans.
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The Anderson shelter, designed by William Patterson and Oscar Carl Kerrison and built by John Summers and Sons of Shotton, were primarily designed to shelter up to six people from shrapnel and flying debris if not necessarily from a direct hit by a bomb.
7 Ιαν 2021 · In 1938, before the Second World War had even begun, British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain placed Sir John Anderson in charge of air raid preparations. As the Lord Privy Seal, Anderson’s responsibility was to organize civil defense such as air raid wardens, rescue squads, fire services, and the Women’s Voluntary Service.
1 Οκτ 2010 · The most common and well-known British air-raid shelter of the Second World War is the Anderson shelter. By the start of 1939, more than a million of these part-sunken shelters, named after the politician responsible for ARP, had been installed in private gardens.
