Original Anderson Air Raid Shelter For Sale

a complete dismantled one near me lying in a back garden, its been there for donkeys years…was probably a home to one in the past too!

You’ve never moved a panel from one! About 25 years ago I trapped for a Young Farmers clay pigeon shoot, and each trap had a wall of straw bales behind it, and a couple of sections of Anderson shelter for good luck. They are very, very heavy! Seriously thick steel. They will take a lot of rotting out.

Adrian

I would have thought that any original shelters would have rusted away by now ?

We stayed in a very old manor house in Frome, Somerset, for my girlfriends 30th birthday with some 20 other people. There was an Anderson shelter in the garden, complete and decked out with bunks, tin hats etc. It was great!

Given the location, the white stuff is liable to be chalk.

Was one at my Grans house in Hendon,, 128 Sturgess ave. if anyone wants to go look. Was being used as a garden shed,so it still had a door.

I bought mine from London, got the bomb fall map, it had been very lucky as it was equidistant between 2 of a stick of bombs. I paid £100 which included me having to dig it out! £490 is cloud cuckoo land, unless the curved panels are complete. As they were meant to be buried in 15 inches of mud or concrete that bit is often missing as it corrodes off.

Meddle

My archaeologist buddy was convinced that the small mound in the back garden of his tenement flat was the remains of an Anderson shelter. I’m sure I’ve seen that sort of chunky corrugated material recycled in allotments and gardens.

Quite likely, my grandfather’s tenement in Glasgow still had theirs until the mid 70s.
You stilll do see them in gardens etc over this side of the Forth, there are a few in the Rosyth allotments

One can never be too careful!

Do you think we are going to bomb you when Sturgeon gets her way? 🙂

Excellent! I’ll see if the seller will accept my £3.60 offer and deliver it to Edinburgh.

I suggest the colour is merely the tinge of zinc coating on the corrugated steel to form galvanised iron.

My archaeologist buddy was convinced that the small mound in the back garden of his tenement flat was the remains of an Anderson shelter. I’m sure I’ve seen that sort of chunky corrugated material recycled in allotments and gardens.

Perhaps a daft question, but was asbestos incorporated into the material? That grey/white colour makes me wonder.

Does it come with a guarantee?

Think they will be lucky to receive £ 4:90…..!!!

AIR-RAID BnB

Surely the ultimate accessory for a reenactor.
“Come on kids, we’ll spend the weekend eating Spam, listing to the wireless and reading 75 year old magazines.”

Sounds like a great B&B idea for those besotted with the war years!:)

They used to be very common back up to the 1980s even and going for free, I had a couple over the years but I cannot see that value of post 400 quid in it unless it has its front and maybe its contents, bunks etc

Dug one out of my brother’s garden in Swanwick in 1981. Scrapman didn’t want to take it until we offered him a copper water tank as well.

I imagine they must be quite rare now.