When enemy planes were spotted air raid sirens would sound. People would make their way to shelters - either communal shelters in their street or place of work, or Andersen shelters in the garden ...

Air-raid siren sounds the warning. Air-raid sirens first sounded the warning in London in September 1939. They became an almost daily part of life in the capital a year later during the height of ...

Her mother and sister prepared to evacuate to an air raid shelter, but she hid behind a shelf in her home and covered herself with a duvet, fearing that incendiary bombs might fall on the shelter.

Whether it was joining new organisations such as the Home Guard or existing ones including ... Local government became responsible for building air raid shelters, providing gas masks and ...