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London Road Deep Shelter, Portsmouth - TheTimeChamber London road deep shelter was the second of two deep shelters to be built in Portsmouth, the other being in Wymering chalk pit Work was started to construct these shelters in late 1941 and by early 1942 they were open They were designed to hold 2500 people underground with food, sanitation, water, light and places … Continue reading "London Road Deep Shelter, Portsmouth"
The Portsmouth Bomb Map – Portsmouth Museum and Art Gallery It is a digitised copy of a map created by Air Raid Precautions staff towards the end of the war The bombs killed or injured over 3,000 people in the city, destroyed or damaged buildings and broke water mains, gas pipes, sewers, electricity cables and telephone lines, which made rescue work and fighting the fires more difficult
Map shows where bombs landed in Portsmouth during the Blitz An Anderson air raid shelter in the back garden of a Bristol home during the Second World War, with sandbags for extra protection against the falling bombs (Image: Bristol Post Mirrorpix) It is 80 years since the biggest air raid struck Portsmouth during the Blitz in the Second World War (WW2)
The Portsmouth Blitz during World War 2 - Welcome to Portsmouth The three major raids took place on August 24th 1940 during the Portsmouth Blitz, January 10th 1941 and March 10th 1941 One of the heaviest attacks took place on January 10th, approximately 300 German aircraft attacked Portsmouth dropping 350 tons of high explosives and 25,000 incendiaries
Memorials and Monuments in Portsmouth City Centre (Besant . . . It is perhaps surprising, given the enormity of this event, that there is still debate about the exact location of the air raid shelter We can see from the pre-war map of the area (see left) that the school occupied the whole of the frontage to Arundel Street between Besant Road (now Holbrook Road) and Spencer Street (now Murefield Street)
Portsmouth’s Air Raid reports from the Second World War The air raid reports are part of the Libraries and Archive Service’s collections and can be viewed at the Portsmouth History Centre in the Central Library There are similar sets of reports for the other air raids on Portsmouth, as well as other material about the work of the air raid wardens
Bomb Census survey 1940-1945 - The National Archives 3 3 Air raid damage files Some air raid incidents were followed up with a more detailed investigation There are over 1,000 files containing reports on specific towns or London boroughs which typically contain: copies of form BC4; detailed technical report on the effects of the bomb and the extent of damage caused; analysis of the size and
Concrete Air Raid Shelters, 1935-1941: A study of the British . . . Z1 Air raid shelters Leaflet No 1 1938 4p Z2 Splinter-proof shelter for factories … Leaflet No 2 1938 16p Z3 Splinter-proof shelter for private houses Leaflet No 3 1938 24p Z4 Public air raid shelters Leaflet No 4 1938 16p Z5 New buildings and A R P Leaflet No 5 1938 7p Table 1 The Air Raid Shelters series (C CA)