| A communal air-raid shelter had been dug outside the Eleventh Earl public house. |
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| After being bundled into the air-raid shelter, we could hear the drone of aircraft passing over-head, on their way to bomb Belfast ship-yards. |
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| There is also an Edwardian greenhouse, potting shed, garage and an air-raid shelter. |
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| The condition was first spotted among survivors of the Blitz in World War II who slept in deck chairs in air-raid shelters. |
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| When war broke out, Sir Ken was studying architecture and helping to design air-raid shelters. |
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| One man suggested on Tuesday this week that there were several air-raid shelters built into the banks of the river. |
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| The nation came to a standstill in a two-minute silence at 10.00 am, signalled by deafening air-raid sirens and traffic grinding to a halt. |
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| It sounds like an air-raid siren but in fact it calls the timbermen back off shore leave. |
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| Even within air-raid shelters, social groups remained very much segregated. |
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| Whether I disciplined him or ignored him, his actions would cause Kanisha to scream like an air-raid siren. |
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| So when he and his pals ran off, and I followed them to an old air-raid shelter, I could hear them but not see them. |
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| The girls were sent to the air-raid shelter, as the fire spread through the house. |
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| The museum will be transformed into a war-zone, with windows taped-up, air-raid shelters and propaganda posters. |
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| Built like an air-raid shelter, he was less prepared than us to tolerate the delays. |
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| The end of the working day in the tea garden is marked by the wail of an air-raid siren. |
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| Living in the tobacconists on Dane Street owned by his parents, Amy and Fred, he would often be woken by the wail of the air-raid sirens. |
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| No noise in the sky, but a wail of sirens constantly around the park, so steady that they sounded like air-raid alarms in the London blitz. |
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| When World War Two broke out Jack was called up and Dorothy took over the round and was also an air-raid warden one day a week. |
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| I ran home and told dad and, as he was an air-raid warden, he knew what to do. |
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| In prior wars, we might have volunteered to be air-raid wardens or to roll bandages at the Red Cross. |
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| This was sounded whenever German planes passed over the coastline to give us and our air-raid wardens time to go to the basement for shelter. |
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| The vaults were last used 60 years ago as air-raid shelters when Hitler's bombs rained down during the Second World War. |
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| The prisoners were made to reinforce the cellar with concrete so it could serve as an air-raid shelter. |
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| The streets were a toddler's wonderland of rubble, smashed window frames, half-demolished air-raid shelters. |
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| Leakes has one of the loudest voices in the Western Hemisphere, something between an operatic soprano and an air-raid siren. |
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| The palace was built to disguise a three-story air-raid shelter located beneath it. |
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| Those in charge of factories, offices and apartment blocks were to appoint and train air-raid wardens. |
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| Regularly after working during the day he went to the ARP post at night to be on call should there be an air-raid. |
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| The bomb had landed about 15 yards away in the yard of a builder who just weeks before had built his own air-raid shelter. |
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| He added the incident would be probed to know who were killed in the air-raid. |
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| The space occupied by the air-raid shelters should have been cleared away long ago to provide more public space and not an area for profit-making parking. |
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| He firewatched during the Blitz in Liverpool, retaining vivid memories of digging out bodies from an air-raid shelter which had received a direct hit. |
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| There were massive air-raid precautions, trenches in public parks, barrage balloons aloft, and anti-aircraft weaponry deployed on public buildings. |
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| My uncle Ernest Tudor, who was an air-raid warden, had to dig us out after one particularly heavy raid. |
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| In June 1940 at night-time the air-raid siren went, my father was at the docs so my mother told my elder brother to go down the steps ready for me to be handed to him. |
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| My father stayed in Coventry to continue his job at Alfred Herberts and to help in his capacity as an air-raid warden. |
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| Rick Perry has traded in his dog whistle for an air-raid siren. |
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| They added a formal rosebed and used the foundations of the wartime Anderson air-raid shelter as a cold frame and also built a greenhouse. |
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| There's compelling first-person testimony from the likes of Swansea's Elaine Kidwell, who, at 17, was the youngest air-raid warden in Britain. |
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| The shock of the first air-raid sirens giving way to a kind of numbness. |
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| An air-raid warden nearby knew we were there and after an hour or so he advised us that we should make a run for home during a lull in the raid. |
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| It was peppered with shrapnel and at the same time as we flew into a brick air-raid shelter at the rear of the infirmary, the whistling bomb explosions were deafening. |
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| The spirit of the Swansea defenders was typified by Elaine Kidwell, at just 17 the youngest air-raid warden in Britain. |
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