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Description: | The British Museum station on High Holborn was closed in 1933. During Second World War, London Transport re-opened the station as an air-raid shelter.
Temporary walls were built along the platform between the shelter and the train tracks, which were in use throughout the war. Bunk beds were built, as well as toilets and washing facilities. There was room for 625 people to shelter altogether. There was also a canteen and a first-aid post.
The shelter was first used in September 1941. Len Phillips was then 11, and remembers clearly sheltering in the old station with his family. | Format: | image/jpeg | Publisher: | London Transport Museum | Rights holder: | Transport for London | Subjects: | London at War | Temporal: | 1940-1949 | Source: | London Transport Museum | Creator: | Interviewer : Felicity Premru | Identifier: | http://www.20thcenturylondon.org.uk/rser... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | image/jpeg | Go to resource |
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