“TIN HEAVENS”
DELIVERY OF AIR RAID SHELTERS STEEL ARCHWAYS FOR CITIZENS SUMMERHOUSES IF NO WAR. [By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright] Received Feb. 26, 8 p.m. LONDON, Feb. 26. What may become, in the eyes o. future chroniclers, an historic mile' stone was the procession of railway vans down a street in Islington, deliv ering the first air raid shelters in the form of sectional steel archways dis tributed gratis to citizens earning under under £5 weekly. One housewife said: “I hope wt never have to use it, but if the wors does not come to the worst it will d( for a summerhouse. A local description of the shelters i. “Tin Heavens.”
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 48, 27 February 1939, Page 7
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