The Stockport Air Raid Shelters are a system of almost 1 mile of underground air-raid shelters dug under Stockport, six miles south of Manchester, during World War II to protect local inhabitants during air raids.Four sets of underground air raid shelter tunnels for civilian use were dug into the red sandstone rock below the town centre. Preparation started in September 1938 and the first set of shelters was opened on 28 October 1939. (Stockport was not bombed until 11 October 1940.) The smallest of the tunnel shelters could accommodate 2,000 people and the largest 3,850 (subsequently expanded to take up to 6,500 people.)
One of the entrances
Toilets
Steps leading to street level
Just a few of hundreds of beds
Carved out of the rock using hand tools
see the chisel marks in the rock
A view out through an air brick
Whats that smell ?
A hard day (yawn)
Self explanatory
A map of the tunnels
Dodge hill Stockport air raid shelters and also Brinksway do you know what they did for air with 2k inside, did it have air shafts. I believe dodge was connected to the rail way tunnel for air. Have you heard of that as there must have been a air way as the the entrances were closed if bombing was on ?
ReplyDeletenever really looked into air passage but there is rusted ducting on the floor and signs of an elctric motor
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