Air-raid shelters, also known as bomb shelters, are structures for the protection of the civil population as well as military personnel against enemy attacks from the air. One countermeasure to the 'deep shelter mentality' and to ensure the widest possible dispersion of civilians during a raid was by distributing shelters which could be erected in householders' gardens. The development of the Anderson Shelter is usually attributed to the Home Secretary of the time John Anderson, later Sir John Anderson.
On the 10th of November, 1938 John Anderson presented his problem to the engineer William Paterson who, along with his co-director Oscar Carl Kerrison, produced within a week the first blueprint and, within a fortnight, the first model. The first German air attack took place in London on the evening of 7 September 1940. Within months, Liverpool, Birmingham, Coventry and other cities were hit too.By the autumn of 1940 the government realised that air-raid shelters on the surface did not offer very good protection from high explosive bombs so deeper shelters were used.
They were shelters either underground or in your house or outside in your front or back garden. They were mostly made out of corrugated metal or iron for the roofs and usually metal for the walls and there were wooden stools/ seats/ bench's etc.. . and if a air raid went off they would probably stay in for a few hours.
The two types of air raid shelters are called the Anderson shelter and the Morrison shelter
Anderson shelters were small cheap bomb shelters used in the UK during WWII for air raid protection. They were meant to be erected in the back yard of individual homes.
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Air raids are where planes fly over cities or towns and bomb them. There is no raid as such, but the place is bombed. This is why there are places called air raid shelters, either steadily built above ground or dug in below ground where people could hide from the bombing.
Anderson shelters were made from corrugated iron.
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They were shelters either underground or in your house or outside in your front or back garden. They were mostly made out of corrugated metal or iron for the roofs and usually metal for the walls and there were wooden stools/ seats/ bench's etc.. . and if a air raid went off they would probably stay in for a few hours.
The two types of air raid shelters are called the Anderson shelter and the Morrison shelter
Air raid shelter are often made in every country especially near strategically important areas/VIPs locations. However for general public air raid shelter are made when a country fears/participate in a war.
there where two air raid shelters one was the Morrison shelter which looked like a table the other was the Anderson shelter which was underground
because Dr. David Morrison invented them
Anderson and Morrison.
Only what families decided to take in with them.
checkers and cards
Yes, if ever there's an invasion from the air, use the bomb shelters.
Anderson shelters were small cheap bomb shelters used in the UK during WWII for air raid protection. They were meant to be erected in the back yard of individual homes.