Combat Dealers Construct An Anderson Shelter

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This was on one of the UK "free-view channels" this evening showing the reconstruction of an Anderson Shelter. Although they could be assembled by the householder in the garden and would withstand almost anything but a direct hit the biggest drawback with them is that they had a tendency to be damp.

My mother caught pneumonia after sheltering for many nights, in the early part of the war, in the Anderson Shelter that had been erected in the back garden. The main targets for the Luftwaffe in the area were Sheffield and Doncaster. According to mother the shelter had a trough in the floor to collect water but this was normally full of water in the winter and, therefore, the shelter was damp as well as being cold. The decision was taken after mother and other family members caught Pneumonia that "if they were going to die then they would die in their own home", as mother's mother put it.

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