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The Anderson shelter, as I remember it, had a sill all the way round - the concrete sealed the dome shape and it had a little shelf, deep down into the hollow where often, as years progressed, water would collect - I think we did have a sump deep in the clay soil but it didn't do a very good job.

Three years afterwards we had an enamelled sign with BP and Shell Mex on it and we had that as part of the fence in the garden for 20 or 30 years and every year a bit more the sign would peel off and it was blue and yellow a bit like the Swedish colours.

Eventually we dug out the shelter and part of it we used as a fence to help demarcate part of the garden. I think what we did with the actual dome part of the shelter, my father put it in the yard and shored the back end up of it with wood complete with a little window and made a shed out of it. That was there for years and years, certainly well into the 1980s.

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