Below the bustling roundabout opposite the Albert Hotel on the High Street in Keighley, UK, is a stone stairway leading up to the entrance to what would have been the public bomb shelter... There is no further details to communicate. when it was built, some even doubted that it was not a WW2 shelter, this also invites the question if it was not a shelter, what was it for? What other purpose does this structure have? In a short tour, it had four chambers, 2 meters high and 1.9 meters wide… all four tunnels are rectangular in shape, according to one source, they could hold up to 200 people..
I was wondering if they could be structures, No , I've seen remnants of bunk beds, such as the Stockport bomb shelters. both BrinksWay and Dodge Hil [the sites that were closed by the council] The canopy is clad in precast concrete and was then reinforced with the addition of a lightweight steel angled box frame. the stone wall would have been placed there later, as the central rotunda is embellished by a garden, the most risky part is crossing the road , as there are four varied lanes..
News article on potenetial targets in Keighley
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