BARROW WWII AIR - RAID SHELTER.

Photographs by Darren Riley.

Barrow In Furness was, and still is, a heavy manufacturing town specialising in Ship-building and Marine Engineering. Little surprise, then, that it was a target for enemy bombers during WWII.

Air-raid shelter entrance

Entrance to a largeish underground air-raid shelter. The photographer reports visiting it many years previous, and found it to be full of water.

35KB jpeg Emergency exit from air-raid shelter

Emergency exit from the shelter, which is in one of the Shipyards' car - parks.



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