Combat Dealers Construct An Anderson Shelter

[GeeRam]

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.

The Anderson my grandfather built in their back garden was still there when I was a kid in the 1960's...or rather, the bottom half of it was.

My Mum, her older sister and their younger brother never really used it though, as the 3 of them were evacuated from London to go and stay with their grandmother in Falkirk in late 1939. They didn't come back down to London until the summer of 1941.

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Just signed Bruce up as our Ambassador at the Airborne Forces Museum taking the place of Richard Todd who sadly died in 2009.
Great bloke , good friend.

Used to know Bruce years ago when he first started dealing in militaria, via a good mate who was a big collector, and lived in the same East London area as Bruce was from originally.

I've met Freddie as well, last summer at a show.

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