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I was certain that I'd seen photographs taken from the window of the Physics Lab showing the air raid shelters beneath the playground under construction, but I couldn't think where. I've now remembered. They were printed in one of the copies of the Keighlian loaned to me last year by Tom Bell Jnr. Tom has in his possession, a volume made up from all the issues printed during the time his father was at KBGS. I should think that the shelters were built in 1939/40. Am I correct Tom?
I was at school 43-46 and we never went into the air raid shelters in the playground . There were stacks of sandbags around the main building entrances in and around the centre of town.I don't remember taking a gas mask to school either so that must have been in the early days of the war.As for domestic shelters ,dad built a beauty 6ft deep and boarded throughout with steel roof and the excavated soil put back on top. We never used it and it housed a cat trap to keep the things off the vegetable patch.
The nearest air raid siren was on the West Lane Mill roof, just level with our bedroom and we would sit bolt upright in bed whenever it went off. Still hate to hear the siren to this day.
Terry, I used to have a problem with feral cats, some the size of bulldogs. I discovered these lead tablets that you injuect via a rifle soon puts a dent in the population.