The original thinking behind the shelter was that it should be erected indoors, but was approved for outdoor use only. Then as Chancellor of the Exchequer in 1943, it was he who introduced the PAYE system of income tax collection. Even then red tape abounded and a family could not have two Anderson shelters but you could have the more expensive Morrison shelter.įrom 1939–1940, John Anderson 1st Viscount Waverley (1812-1958) was Minister of Home Security. As I came from a large family, we had an Anderson shelter in the garden and a Morrison shelter for the overflow, in the house.
If you earned above that figure a shelter cost £7.
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This was made from heavy steel and could be used as a table being approximately 6’6” long, 4’ wide and 2’6” high.Īnderson shelters were given free to people who earned under £5 a week. The remainder either worked at night or slept in their own homes perhaps using a Morrison shelter. A survey conducted in November 1940 showed that 27% of Londoners used Anderson shelters, 9% in public shelters and 4% used the underground. The soil from the excavation was used to cover your iron cave, again as the handbook said, with at least 15” of earth.Īt that time fewer than 25% of the population had gardens in which to erect Anderson shelters but still 2,250,000 were built.
The handbook said the shelter should be built in a hole 4’ deep but most gave up at 3’. The fourteenth sheet was larger than the opening left for access and was set at an angle, on the outside, as a shield. One end of this was closed by three tall sheets while the other end, which contained the entrance, was constructed using two larger sheets and two smaller ones. Six were bolted together to form an arch or tunnel. This was made using fourteen sheets of corrugated iron. The shelter consisted of a shell 6’ high, 4-1/2’ wide and 6-1/2’ long. This made us a target for the German air force so overnight, every identical house had an identical Anderson air raid shelter half buried in its front garden. One end of the village was terminated by a minor river used by a few fishermen, the other end was much more important as the river there was used to service submarines. WW2 Anderson shelter: a historyĪs a boy at the outbreak of World War Two, I lived with my parents in a colliery village with long rows of houses running for two and a half miles along the North Sea coast. Plus, find out about the history of the WW2 Anderson shelter from creator Brian Long who remembers the Second World War.
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