Originally placed 2 years ago while waiting for another cache to archived but sadly was beat to publishing this cache, but with heads up from another co in moving theres 10mtrs south i wentand checked on geocache, and its good to go
Air raid shelters were used during the second world war.
Typically they are very basic structures which most were not designed to take a direct hit, its an above ground type and designed purely to stand up to flying debris cuased by bombs being dropped in the air raid. Pesonally belive this to be of the same layout as the one in bexhill in which i have also placed a geocache at. If you have not been brave enough to look inside that one which is not bricked off, its lay out consists off 2 blast corridors ether side of the main room, The purpose of these is to deflect air pressure hitting the inside of the shelter further protecting the people inside, also 2 dug outs in thes short corridors one per side with a chemical toilet one side for sure, in the other one id guess maybe same but wouldnt be surprised to learn if the second one had another purpose, inside the main shelter, im unsure if they would of housed bunks or chairs in these particular designs as there really not that big inside. but that said it wasn't uncommon for people to sleep in these for the duration of the war night after night.
I have currently 7 other air raid shelters id like to place caches for locally. and hope to achieve this in time. i feel these life saving, soul saving locations deserve to be marked out as you will see from some of the other locations to come, time and nature are reclaiming these places and they often get demolished to make way for new buildings
Again one day id love to have time to make one of them maps with locations and pictures on that you share online, so if you have any ww1-ww2 locations please get intouch so one day i can map the past for future generations