Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
anderson shelter in my garden !
hello - i have found a ww2 anderson shelter in my garden. very exited but wondering if its safe to walk over it and also would anyone want it - seems tragic to dig an important piece of ww2 history up. any ideas inf about these would be gratefully received.
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Permalink Reply by Dominic Hinshelwood on
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Brilliant timing. My Daughter is doing WW2 at school and Anderson shelters are featured. It would be great if I could come and take pictures and maybe even bring my daughter. Ring me 07879446571.
Cheers Dom
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Permalink Reply by John D on
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Try talking to the Imperial War Museum and The Hornsey Historical Society.
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Permalink Reply by Justin Guest on
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That is cool. You can see a few up and down the ladder. Did you find anything of interst in there? How did you find it?
It has been there the best part of 70 years, I would have thought you should be ok- though that said, the garden of a house I lived near fell into a 300+ year old coal bell pit some time back, so who am I to comment...
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Permalink Reply by as on
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well, we have not opened it up - i think we should though my hubby is worried there are dead bodies down there - whata wuss.
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I'd love to come over and see it if you are going to go in over the weekend. A bit of history and all that!
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Permalink Reply by Protheroe O'Shea on
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Oh dear Androulla I fear you've missed a trick here. You should have kept schtum and converted it into an HMO. It's been there for 70 years for gods sake, planning enforcement wouldn't have had a cats chance in hell of getting it reconverted.
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.... great idea would it not fall under getting retrospective planning permission - not sure what is underground as its only a bit of concrete and corregated iron poking out og the groubd at the moment but we should be able to squeese at least 8 people into it don't you think ?
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Permalink Reply by Alan Stanton on
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The BBC filmed a not completely dissimilar discovery in 1955.
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I doubt the thing in Quatermass was seeking shelter in an Anderson Shelter, surely not...
Just in case, when you do open it up, send the kids in first!
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I think that Quatermass and the Pit had several repeats. I vaguely remembered it as being one of the few SF stories on TV with a good strong plot anywhere near the standard of SF authors I read when young.
But now, watching bits of it on YouTube, it just seems stilted and quaint.
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No it doesn't. I find it quite gripping
Wikipaedia and Idb has Quatermas and the Pit as 1958, not 1955.
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Permalink Reply by maggie on
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I was banned from watching Quatermass as it was deemed not fit for children "and persons of a nervous disposition" (remember those warnings?), it was terrifying watching it through the crack in the door.
Androulla if you're having an "opening" of the Anderson shelter I'd like to come too.
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