AIR RAID SHELTERS
DELIVERY TO BRITAIN HOUSEHOLDERS HISTORIC MILESTONE. WILL DO FOR SUMMERHOUSES IF ALL GOES WELL. By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright. LONDON, February 25. What may become in the eyes of future chroniclers an historic milestone was a procession of railway vans down Timber Street, Islington, today delivering the first air-raid shelters in the form of sectional steel archways distributed gratis to citizens earning less than £5 a week. One housewife said: .“I hope we will never have to use it but, if the worst does not come to the worst, it will do for a summerhouse.” The local description of the shelters is "tin heavens."
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 27 February 1939, Page 5
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106AIR RAID SHELTERS Wairarapa Times-Age, 27 February 1939, Page 5
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