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Special shelters provided for staff at Blackburn Meadows Power Station

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Ref No:	s03584
Title:	Special shelters provided for staff at Blackburn Meadows Power Station
Location:	Sheffield
Date:	1939/08
Date Period:	1920-1939
Photographer:	Sheffield Newspapers Ltd.
Copyright::	Sheffield Newspapers Ltd
Notes:	Special shelters like these were provided for essential staff at Sheffield's Blackburn Meadows Power Station. Other workers would go into underground shelters during an air raid.Special shelters similar to the one pictured above were provided for the guard at Buckingham Palace. For more information see; 'Sheffield At War, A Pictorial Account 1939-45'. Cat. No. 940.5442 SQ.
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