Some of the London business houses have had built for their staffs concrete air raid shelters. This tunnel, provided with steel doors protected by concrete screens, is part of the shelter for a firm with six thousand workers. From the smiling faces when this picture was taken, it is easy to see that it was a novelty, the grimness of which was not realised.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 200, 25 August 1939, Page 10
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64Some of the London business houses have had built for their staffs concrete air raid shelters. This tunnel, provided with steel doors protected by concrete screens, is part of the shelter for a firm with six thousand workers. From the smiling faces when this picture was taken, it is easy to see that it was a novelty, the grimness of which was not realised. Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 200, 25 August 1939, Page 10
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