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In 1940, I was about 10 years old then.

They built air raid shelters with an oval top. I presume they were built with sand and lime, and if a bomb was to drop about a mile away, these air raid shelters would have fell to bits. So they knocked these shelters down, and rebuilt them with square corners in preference to oval tops, and they were built with cement and sand. They were in Overstone Road, Somerset Street and that area.

Nearly all the streets around there had them for the people who lived in the street. Mind you, they were never used as I know, as by the time they were built the war was ending. We only had one doodle bug come over, and there was a big explosion, but where it was I couldn't tell you.

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