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Kaga simpson
Peacehaven, East Sussex |
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Wed 24th Apr 2019 11:59am
Annewiggy, thanks for your reply, not my area in those days so can't help. |
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Kaga simpson
Peacehaven, East Sussex |
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Sat 27th Apr 2019 8:39am
I really should not have criticised those surface shelters, they did the job they were built for; minor injuries, the huge amount of flak flying through the air, glass, slates, shrapnel etc. By far the amount of small injuries, a good many never got reported. To me the irony of staff on duty whilst helping save this city in one part, found their own streets and families at the mercy of the onslaught. It was most heartbreaking to hear of such tragedy. |
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Not Local
Bedworth |
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Thu 18th Jul 2019 10:32pm
There are some interesting images of Coventry air raid shelters on the Pillbox Study Group website.
To see them you need to go to 'PSG Forum' and then scroll down to 'Anti Invasion Defences', then 'Air Raid Shelters Civil & Military' and 'Coventry Trench Shelters'. There are interesting Lidar images of air raid shelters under Hearsall Lane, Spencer Park, Jubilee Crescent, and what the site calls Gofton Park but which is in fact Gosford Green.
I had no idea what Lidar was but apparently it is a surveying method which uses laser light with the reflected light measured by a sensor - a bit like radar I suppose.
The images were published in 2016 by a chap called Adrian Armishaw who is connected to the aviation museum at Sywell in Northamptonshire.
I am sorry if this is a bit dis-jointed but I know nothing about computers and absolutely nothing about Lidar.
Mods note: Here is a link
Edited by Midland Red, 19th Jul 2019 7:57 am (Link added) |
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Helen F
Warrington |
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Fri 19th Jul 2019 10:29am
Lidar is amazing. Because it adds up data about the same spot from different angles it can see through foliage to the ground surface. In South America for instance it is uncovering massive cities underneath the jungle. Only a fraction has been scanned but one town was bigger than old Coventry and had an even longer wall. Most of that is carried out from the air but there is a ground based version that can create colour replicas of streets, interiors and tunnels. There has been a series of spectacular programmes about various cities on the BBC.
Ancient cities
Italy's cities (not currently available)
I know that Spon Street and St John's has been scanned. |
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Not Local
Bedworth |
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Fri 19th Jul 2019 2:40pm
The Coventry images certainly show the old air raid shelters and as a bonus the one for Spencer Park clearly shows the old Earlsdon cycle speedway track which has been unused since the late 1960's and which cannot be seen at ground level. It can just be seen on Google images if you knew where to look. |
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Prof
Gloucester |
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Fri 19th Jul 2019 4:38pm
Post 81. Thank you MR |
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walrus
cheshire |
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Sun 21st Jul 2019 10:29am
Re the Radford rec site, my gran lived in Tulliver Street in the 50s and 60s, and I spent countless hours playing on the rec. I can't recall any air raid shelters or even evidence that there might have been. The banking, which seemed a great deal steeper to a kid's eyes, was one of our favourite spots to die spectacularly after being shot by our pals. The even numbered houses in Tulliver Street were council houses and all had Anderson shelters. After the war most of the shelters were retained as garden sheds. During the 50s there was still much evidence of the war years. Under the stairs in gran's house (the bogey hole) we had shell casings, some still had the projectile in place. The overhead picture of the rec clearly shows the outlines of foundations on the Lydgate Hill side though my Dad (95) has no memory of buildings there. |
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Annewiggy
Tamworth |
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Sun 21st Jul 2019 4:16pm
A list from a 1939 Coventry Telegraph, British Newspaper Archive with the number the shelter could accommodate
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Midland Red
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Sun 21st Jul 2019 5:06pm
From the "Radford" thread:
On 28th Jul 2016 4:32pm, PhiliPamInCoventry said:
Evidence of the past in aerial pictures in Radford.
BBC History.
On 2nd May 2012 9:51am, Radford kid said:
At first I did not think it was Radford Common, I was looking at it from the Radford Road, looking up the bank but now I think it is looking from the top of Radford Common towards the Radford Road. The tree line looks the same, but the photo is not that easy to make out the buildings on the other side of the road? I was born at number 404 Radford Road, 1945.
The paddling pool did not last very long as the IQ zeros at the time dumped broken bottles and all sorts in (all in the name of fun). Based on what I can see I think it is Radford Common. Not sure if you know this but the hump or small rise on the common contains air raid shelters, as a kid we used to play in them I remember them being water logged, can you imagine how much fun that was for a small kid. We were not happy when they were filled in (still intact, not smashed but all complete). Nice to see one opened up again. That's all for now hope I have not bored you all.
Colin Walton.
Ps I think the shelters were filled in as part of the health scare about polio, lot of it about at that time and it was thought to be caused by foul water.
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Kaga simpson
Peacehaven, East Sussex |
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Mon 22nd Jul 2019 3:13pm
I can't believe we have come back to this macabre topic - to me, like digging up granny's grave, see if she is still there. Why?
A surface shelter built for the council in Silver Street collapsed. The walls had blown down, creating a 'Morrison Sandwich' - about thirty people trapped inside. Rescue workers got a nurse to crawl through a small gap and hand them morphine to whoever could reach.
No one was dead at the time. But police made the rescuers leave as there were two unexploded bombs close by.
By the time the rescue workers resumed and reached them, only one old man was alive.
Almost identical was another near the bottom of Hertford Street - the walls collapsed.
Herbert Morrison visited on the Saturday, too soon for people to make comment. |
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p fandango
Binley, Coventry |
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Wed 20th Nov 2019 9:25pm
I'm sure I've found the Cheylesmore estate/Quinton Rd bunkers. You can just make out the rectangles by the trees on the left. Has anyone got any more information about them please
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Wearethemods
Aberdeenshire |
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Thu 21st Nov 2019 10:24am
On 22nd Jul 2019 3:13pm, Kaga simpson said:
I can't believe we have come back to this macabre topic - to me, like digging up granny's grave, see if she is still there. Why?
A surface shelter built for the council in Silver Street collapsed. The walls had blown down, creating a 'Morrison Sandwich' - about thirty people trapped inside. Rescue workers got a nurse to crawl through a small gap and hand them morphine to whoever could reach.
No one was dead at the time. But police made the rescuers leave as there were two unexploded bombs close by.
By the time the rescue workers resumed and reached them, only one old man was alive.
Almost identical was another near the bottom of Hertford Street - the walls collapsed.
Herbert Morrison visited on the Saturday, too soon for people to make comment.
Actually it was Greyfriars Green/Warwick Row, Kaga, not Silver Street where the unexploded bombs were and only one old man was found alive. In fact those immediate survivors that died in the 3 days following the police/ARP decision and prior to the rescue of the one mentioned above are listed in the blitz victims attachment posted by Heathite a few days ago. There was a shelter roof collapse in Silver Street but it happened outwith a raid and was empty at the time. |
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NeilsYard
Coventry |
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Thu 8th Sep 2022 10:54am
This excellent find was recently posted on FB by Beverley Wishart.
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Garlands Joke Shop
Coventry |
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Fri 27th Oct 2023 7:54pm
Newspaper Clippings from Sept 27th 1938 (approx. just under one year before the start of WW2) detailing the locations of newly dug air raid trenches in Coventry. Obviously the government quite rightly could see the rise of fascism in Europe and feared a second war.
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tish
Coventry |
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Mon 15th Jul 2024 11:25am
Yes that's right, we used to play in them in the 50's, many moons ago now ..... patric ashby
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