What happened to all the bomb shelters in London from the WW2? Are they still there?

Answer 1

Many of the public shelters were basements and tube stations.
people were also encouraged to use their own shelters - anderson shelters and morrison shelters.

Anderson shelters were concrete and corrugated steel constructions built in the back garden, designed for 2 - 4 people.
Most people dismantled their anderson shelters, after the war to make room for gardens/ growing food (rationiong was still in place for another 8 years after WW2) in the back garden, although some were left in place (up until 1990, I lived next door to someone with an anderson shelter still intact.... I guess it's still there now)

A lot of people (including my mother who lived in central london) had a morrison shelter - an indoor strong cage-like construction, which was not bomb-proof, but was supposed to protect you from debris falling on you if your house collapsed

Answer 2

As said above the biggest bomb shelters where the underground stations. The Bomb shelter for the leaders of the war, where they planned attacks and defense, is still there and you can go and see it. It has been open a few years. Other houses had Anderson Shelters in their gardens and a few houses still have them but as they weren't built that well not many have lasted.

Answer 3

On the estate where I live they simply sealed up the entrances, so the shelter is still there, but you just cannot get into them.
The same thing happened where my mother lives, so I think yes there are still loads of redundant shelters all over London, but I've no idea if any of them are still accessible.
Not all of the residents were lucky enough to have their own shelter, and so thousands had to go down to the underground stations.

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Answer 5

I think most used the london subways or their basements.

I'm sure a lot of the manufactured shelters would still be around.

Answer 6

Our house in Birmingham had one till we knocked it down in the 1960s, the house next to it still has one!
They were not very pretty things, but this one has been landscaped by turning it into a garden shed, under a rockery.
I thought Most people in London used to go down the Underground.

Answer 7

Most of them were underground stations , the ones in peoples back gardens were known as Anderson shelters .These were made of corrugated iron , I would think most of these have now disappeared

Answer 8

Many of the bomb shelters were basements and subway stations so they are still there.

Answer 9

They are now Underground stations and Storage rooms

Answer 10

Yep. Many of them are called the tube stations.