Safety in the garden
You don't see many of these around nowadays, do you? Distributed in their millions and quite common when I was a lad, they lingered on into the seventies and eighties in diminishing numbers, usually pressed into service as toolsheds or similar. This one has lost the corrugated iron facing that would once have surrounded its entrance. I don't know by what combination of luck and random accidents this Anderson shelter has survived, but eighty years ago this spot must have been in someone's back garden. Today it is the verge of a public road, only feet from the the double-yellows. I do hope that some misguided person doesn't come along and remove it as a restoration project, probably for re-erection at some dreadful open-air museum. Perhaps they would hire some out-of-work actors to sit in it: she heavily lipsticked, wearing her land girl overall and one of those "turbans" that Miriam Karlin wore with such panache in Heavens Above; and he home on leave from an anti-aircraft battery on the south coast, chain-smoking Player's in battledress and forage cap.
Safety in the garden
You don't see many of these around nowadays, do you? Distributed in their millions and quite common when I was a lad, they lingered on into the seventies and eighties in diminishing numbers, usually pressed into service as toolsheds or similar. This one has lost the corrugated iron facing that would once have surrounded its entrance. I don't know by what combination of luck and random accidents this Anderson shelter has survived, but eighty years ago this spot must have been in someone's back garden. Today it is the verge of a public road, only feet from the the double-yellows. I do hope that some misguided person doesn't come along and remove it as a restoration project, probably for re-erection at some dreadful open-air museum. Perhaps they would hire some out-of-work actors to sit in it: she heavily lipsticked, wearing her land girl overall and one of those "turbans" that Miriam Karlin wore with such panache in Heavens Above; and he home on leave from an anti-aircraft battery on the south coast, chain-smoking Player's in battledress and forage cap.