old liverpool housing by exacta2a, on Flickr
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Here are air raid shelters being built in the back of our houses in Reading Street in 1941. We also had them in the middle of the street. They were not fit for purpose as the walls were only 2 bricks wide with a roof of 3 or 4 inches of concrete.
When the war was ended we used them for card schools,gambling our pennies away.
When it came to demolishing them, it only took a few men with sledge hammers, so if a bomb had landed on them they wouldn`t have saved anybody.
The best shelters were in Kings Park, Bootle being underground.
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