Air Raid Shelters in London, 1940

ID: 423 ~ Source: "[Air Raid Shelters in London, 1940.]" Image. From Imperial War Museums: Ministry of Information Second World War Press Agency Print Collection. https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205070170 (accessed July 11, 2018). ~ Date: 1940
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Mrs. Alice Prendergast is shown watering her vegetable garden planted atop the government issued Anderson air raid shelter.

This file appears in: Seeking Shelter

By Alan Davies
"Well the government required you to put up any material that would block light being emitted from windows to aid German bombers. But although the war started on 3 September ’39 the bombing didn’t start until June of 1940. Although Hitler…