Last Surviving Public Air Raid Shelter, Hull
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- Опубликовано: 28 авг 2024
- Constructed in 1939 by the Yorkshire Electricity Board (not the Marfleet and Drypool Tram Steamway Co as mentioned in the video), this could well be the last surviving shelter in the city of Hull, East Yorkshire.
That it hasn't been demolished is just a freak coincidence. We managed to track down the owners, Northern Powergrid, who were happy for us to visit.
The future of the site is uncertain and this piece of history really needs protecting.
Fascinating. Please keep up these snippets of Hull's history. Videos like this need promoting and encouraging.
Cheers, I'll try - am working on something to do with Wawne at the moment, and have something planned for Kilnsea .. but not really Hull specifically; depends what I come across. If you have any ideas shout out :)
im shocked how small the shelter is, expected it to be much longer, thanks for showing us the inside mick very interesting
I know these things have very little monetary value BUT I do think they should be kept as part of our history. Once they are gone that's it. My grandad was one of 11 kids born in Grimsby Lane Hull (1901) and he served in the wars, that's all been flattened (in the 60's I think) and is now a multi storey car park!
What an amazing survivor, and a tribute to the citizens of Hull who suffered so badly back then.
When you said if was for 50 people. They must have been squashed like sardines. There is one near me but is all bricked up and in the middle of a busy area, so not much chance of getting in. Thanks for sharing.
You're not kidding. What I didn't say about this place, but I should have, is that it's under continuous threat of demolition, and so have started the ball rolling of preservation. We'll see how it goes. Cheers.
We lived at Anlaby Park and as a teenager I helped my dad demolish our air raid shelter. It was easily as big as this one.
Thank's for the shout out. Awesome video.
@@Sorme1001 A close up of the spiders.
Interesting to see..
If you're interested in air raid shelters, there used to be lots of them in Brough, between BAe Systems and the Humber at Brough Haven , one lays behind the Buccaneer pub on a piece of waste land to the left of the car park also..
Where are the others in brough please? I beleive some were knocked down near the airfield where the houses are being built but are there others?
Great stuff. Keep up the good work...
Thanks for that's.. really interesting to see these things 👍
Cheers, am trying to get this one protected, which is easier said than done.
@@Sorme1001 yes it's a shame they aren't regarded with abit more historical value, we see all sorts of ww2 structures left crumbling or demolished, it's always really sad to see 😔 Good luck with getting this protected 👍
Is the shelter not protected? Do you have a petition or anything as I'd sign?
Very interesting. 👍
We have one in the back of our garden in Hull but it’s been bricked up. Ideally we want to open it up & have it as a garden feature!
Apologies, only just noticed this message. Whereabouts in Hull are you? Have seen a few good private, small shelters in people's backyards - what type is it? My Grandparents had a concrete one in their yard down Calvert Rd, was great playing in it.
We are on Victoria Avenue. Apparently from what locals have said that have lived down here have said is that every 6th or so house had an air raid shelter for those houses! Most have been pulled down now but ours still remains & we’d like to keep it that way.
You may need in the near future with all the problems in europe.
Nice video Mike, some good background history too. I plan to make some air raid shelter video's now. Thanks for the Invite btw ;)
haha .. it was a funny time this one, around 8.30am, before going to work. It was the only time that he guy from Northern Powergrid was free to open the gates.
@@Sorme1001 you will tell me anything Mike, I know what Hull lot are like lol. Maybe next time ey
I lived just round the corner in Crowle Ave. Hotham street,Ferries street and Crowle street itself . I delivered papers all over this area as a kid back in 1959/63. Mick Covill...mmm rings a bell?
Nice find hopefully stays forever.
Nice video. That really was a basic shelter and just to keep people safe from shrapnel i imagine as its not deep and only brick so wouldnt have taken much close explosion
We have a four room one in our back garden we use as a shed in the north west
Awesome. Has anyone ever filmed it? Would love to see it.
Looks interesting find here,ive come acoss few in the past in other parts of the country
Hi, indeed, they are all over. I should have titled this one 'last surviving public air raid shelter IN Hull', and of this design I think I am right, though there are certainly others. Cheers for watching!
I dont live far from there.
Never knew it was there.
My family lived on Beverley high Road. There still is an air raid shelter in the garden.
Yo James. I noticed a thread on Hull: The Good Old Days last week which mentioned surviving air raid shelters so went for a little stroll around and noticed a half dozen or so surviving 'domestic' shelters, mostly put to secondary uses now, sheds and such. Was yours a concrete cube type?
@@Sorme1001 It was brick with a very substantial concrete roof. It was still there when I last visited Hull about 12 years ago, and was in very good condition.
I don't see any reason why it wouldn't still be there.
@@Sorme1001 I think I have replied already but in case I haven't, it was brick with a very thick concrete roof. When I last visited Hull about ten years ago, it still existed.
The address is 723 Beverley High Road, now a medical practice. My grandfather built the house and the shelter.
Go to the original craven St 'the railway arches 'where the embankment finishes 'the arch there was bricked up for public use as a air raid shelter during ww2
Think I know where you mean Daniel, will go have a look when am next in the area! 👍
Very good condition considering the determination of vandals these days.
I think there used to be one of these near West Bulls car park.
Hi from sunny hessle rd,
Bidston has one
That’s in really good condition
It is, considering how long it has been sat there, and the fact that it somehow got overlooked for demolition when the rest of the site was pulled down. Am in the process of trying to get it some protection because its future is uncertain. Cheers.
It's not the last shelter they are several others all over Hull. My friend has a underground shelter on James Reckitt Avenue.
Really? Fantastic. This is a slightly misleading title with an emphasis on 'public' (as opposed to your friends, which would have been private). Over the last few months have heard of a few semi subterranean private bunkers - which hopefully I'll be able to visit once things have settled down - but no other public ones, other than basements that were turned over for air raid use. If you have any tips I'll be glad to listen. Regards.
I've visited this same one. I know of another communal shelter in Bridlington that I'd be happy to show you. Really well preserved. It's a sensitive location so I shouldn't say much here publicly. Is there a way I can PM you?
In from bridlington and didn't know we had one where is it plz
Was the air raid sound in the back ground intentional? Would residents of Lee Smith Street seek shelter here?
Hi Lisa. I don't think so, this one was more for the employees of the YEB who built it, but Lee Smith Street undoubtedly would have had its own shelters, sadly now gone. A closer surviving shelter to Lee Smith Street is on Churchill St, at the site of the old school (now a garage), records show there was a communal shelter there. Am trying to get access, but it never seems to be open when we go.
Very cosy for 50, must of been built by the same people who build caravans these days, and tell you they sleep 10 'comfortably' .....
I big good Endra to make I really good size Bunker
We have an air raid shelter in our town in the south?
Sorry, bit of a misleading title. It should read 'last surviving Hull public air raid shelter', meaning there isn't another to be found in Hull .. well, like this and as in good condition anywhere. Elsewhere in the country there are hundreds. Cheers fella.
Where is this in Hull?