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ALBERT Honeyman who has often written into Remember When was intrigued by the sign on the wall for the air raid shelter on Linthorpe Mews behind Linthorpe Road in Middlesbrough town centre. Albert writes: "My wife works at a shop called Past Times, which is just opposite Marks and Spencer. At the back of the shop where I park the car to pick her up when she is finished work, there is the remnants of a sign for an air raid shelter from the war. I remember seeing this sign in an article in the Evening Gazette some years ago, but I could not remember how much was printed about it.
"Upon mentioning it to the staff in Past Times, the manageress said that the shelter was indeed under the building and the shelter is listed. I asked her how they got 367 people in there. She said there was probably two ways in and out, but the main one was behind the counter in the shop. She lifted this hatch up in the floor and there were steep steps down into the air raid shelter, which extends the full length of the shop and under Linthorpe Road. She told me that the only person who ever goes down there now is the meter reader. I only had my camera phone with me but I took some pictures, which I have sent to you."See the full content of this document
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Sheltering From the Blitz ; Your Memories
Few of us alive today can remember what it was like to use shelters like this during the bombing of ...
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