Any one remember the air raid shelters that used to be in longley school yard they ran for quite some distance. at the end of the tunnels where people congregated there were drawings on the walls which people did with the candle smoke i believe they were filled in sometime in the seventies.

They still have some in Hartley Brook School

They found some at Southey J+I last year when digging the yard up.

My mum went to school on Hatfield House Lane in Shiregreen and they had airraid shelters in the school yard. She told me stories of going in them when she was young. Isn't that near Longley?
I think all schools had shelters in those days.

My Mum and Dad still have an airraid shelter in their back garden. It has a rockery over the top with a brick archway and steps going down into a small room. Dad uses it for his home made wine. I used to be scared when I was a kid and thought it was haunted. Eerie, lots of spiders.

Originally posted by MARTINO 1
Any one remember the air raid shelters that used to be in longley school yard they ran for quite some distance. at the end of the tunnels where people congregated there were drawings on the walls which people did with the candle smoke i believe they were filled in sometime in the seventies.


We had air raid shelters in our school yard at Prince Edward and and had a regular practice drill.

We had one in the back garden at Frecheville dug out by my parents and neighbours. We kiks had tiers of bunks supported by woven hessian. I remember finding the prospect of setting fire to the hessian threads hanging down from the bunk above irresistible.I vaguely remember voices from the entrance above saying " It's only one of ours"

Yeah i was toild about the longley school shelters, i aint ever seen them tho cus when i started primary school there, they had all been filled in.:(

I Believe there is a large air raid shelter under the rear field at Lound Jnr in Chapeltown. that was also filled in in the 70s

Yeah - that's right. I used to attend Lound Junior School, and I remember learning all about the second world war.

We cordoned off an area of the classroom and gave it 1940's decor, blacked out the windows with paper and masking tape, and built a Morrison shelter out of a table and some netting. Whoever finished all of their work first, as a treat (?), got to lay in the shelter and pretend to fear for their life...

During the teaching of this topic, our class was marched out into the centre of the playing field and told that underneath the exact spot we were standing was a large air-raid shelter. If I recall correctly, I think it lies directly beneath the football pitch.

There where some Shelters at Manor lane, all gone.

There were some at Concord middle School too, which I believe may now have reverted to being Shiregreen school. I remember tem being demolished in the early 70's.

Norfolk school playing fields has a whole series of air raid tunnels under it. There's only a slab of concrete covering one of the entrances.

I have one in my garden which we've converted into a cocktail bar!

there was one beside the pre-fab classroom at handsworth infant school we dug our way into it once and made a den.

Originally posted by Sandra Spice
I have one in my garden which we've converted into a cocktail bar!

It wasn't you on that changing rooms style show (can't remember the name) that was on about a year ago was it?

Yep it was - Room For Improvement.

Originally posted by vidster
Norfolk school playing fields has a whole series of air raid tunnels under it. There's only a slab of concrete covering one of the entrances.

yeah, there used to be only a slab of concrete covering it but a few years ago the annex building where demolished and tarmacced over. i went down there when i was in the senior school with an older lad behind me. we went down one of the tunnels about 100 yards and he blew out his match and ran off leaving me to find my own way out!!!!!!!!!!.

since then norfolk senior school has been demolished and as i speak they are demolishing the first school. going to have a look around it after work tonight!!!!!!!!!!. taking a few piccies of it as well.

Originally posted by MARTINO 1
Any one remember the air raid shelters that used to be in longley school yard they ran for quite some distance. at the end of the tunnels where people congregated there were drawings on the walls which people did with the candle smoke i believe they were filled in sometime in the seventies.
I went to Longley in the 1950's and I remember the shelters well. there was a row of entrances sealed with concrete slabs that we used to slide down, and a grass area with long humps that were the connecting tunnels of the shelters. I think they remodelled the play areas in the 70's and that's when they wee filled in and levelled.

there were some at western road school at crooks