ENGLAND’S SAFEST AIR-RAID SHELTER. On Ist June the Duke of Kent opened and inspected the first section of the Ramsgate (Kent) air-raid shelter. It is a tunnel, two miles in length, bored into the solid chalk cliffs, and will hold the town’s 34,000 population. There are 23 entrances. Above. Men at work on the reinforcing.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXIII, 12 June 1939, Page 5
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55ENGLAND’S SAFEST AIR-RAID SHELTER. On Ist June the Duke of Kent opened and inspected the first section of the Ramsgate (Kent) air-raid shelter. It is a tunnel, two miles in length, bored into the solid chalk cliffs, and will hold the town’s 34,000 population. There are 23 entrances. Above. Men at work on the reinforcing. Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXIII, 12 June 1939, Page 5
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