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Description: | The Air Raid Precaution Buildings exhibition was designed to show people how to protect themselves against air raids. It was held at Charing Cross (now Embankment) Underground station in 1938.
This room looked very different from the places where Londoners sheltered from air raids during the Second World War. In 1938 the government was concerned about poison gas. The exhibition shows people wearing gas masks. They have taped up the doors and windows to stop the gas coming in.
During early 1938, the British government was looking nervously at the National Socialists or 'Nazis' in Germany and making its own preparations for war. This exhibition took place two months after the union between Germany and Austria into the Greater German Reich, called the Anschluss. | Format: | image/jpeg | Publisher: | London Transport Museum | Rights holder: | Transport for London | Subjects: | Leisure Power and Politics London at War | Temporal: | May 1938 | Source: | London Transport Museum | Identifier: | http://www.20thcenturylondon.org.uk/rser... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | image/jpeg | Go to resource |
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