LOTC: Clapham South Air Raid Shelter

Holly Swan, Blanche Atherton, Ruby Mayo, Rosie Hart, Jasmine Landers

and Maxine Woodbridge

The Deep-Level Air-Raid Shelter

Our trip• Underground shelter

tour• Bomb tour• Clapham common walk• Picnic

Background Information• Available from 19th July 1944• Last used March 1945• After the war used for document

storage and accommodation • Restored 2012 • One of a network of deep shelters

across London• Constructed 1940s • Designed as two parallel tubes of 16

foot inches internal diameter and 1,600 feet long

• Two decks with bunks, medical posts, kitchens and sanitary facilities

• Held 9,600 people

Then and Now

Our trip

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