Talbot Heath School for Girls, Bournemouth - WWII Air Raid Shelter (4)
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Talbot Heath School for Girls, Bournemouth - WWII Air Raid Shelter (4)
Image: © Mike Searle Taken: 9 Sep 2017
- Air Raid Shelter: DoB ID: e42058 The view of the interior from the entrance vestibule. Nothing prepares you for the sight of the interior of the shelter for the first time - its size is quite astonishing. For those interested in statistics, the interior is 20 metres long, by 2 metres wide, and 2 metres high. The benches that lined the sides (most have been removed to accommodate today's visitors), also doubled up as temporary beds by placing them together. The School's archives record that they were thus used during the intense period of enemy bombing of 1939 - 1940, when around 30 pupils and staff would have sheltered here. Image
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Image Location
Latitude
50.730905
Longitude
-1.900907