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The smallest of the tunnel shelters could accommodate 2,000 people and the largest 3,850. It was subsequently expanded to take up to 6,500 people. [1] [2] In 1948, the shelters were sealed off from the public. [3] The largest of the Stockport Air Raid Shelters have been open to the public since 1996 as part of the town's museum service. [1]
(Stockport was not bombed until 11 October 1940.) The smallest of the tunnel shelters could accommodate 2,000 people and the largest 3,850 (subsequently expanded to take up to 6,500 people.) The largest of the Stockport Air Raid Shelters are open to the public as part of the town's museum service. [17]
Shortly before the Second World War in 1938, sections of the caves were excavated to construct air raid shelters, the first of which opened on 28 October 1939. As the threat of bombing has subsided by 1943, the shelters were no longer open every night. [5] The shelters were sealed off from the public in 1948. [3]
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Stockport Express. 2007. Archived from the original on 28 June 2009 – 40th anniversary articles about the accident "Stockport Air Disaster". BBC Inside Out. BBC. 28 October 2002 A new generation are learning how these long-forgotten heroes played a courageous role in Cheshire's darkest day.
St. Thomas' Hospital (Stockport) Staircase House; Stepping Hill Hospital; Stockport Air Raid Shelters; Stockport bus station; Stockport Castle; Stockport College; Stockport Interchange; Stockport Pyramid; Stockport Sunday School; Stockport Town Hall; Stockport Viaduct; Strawberry Studios
Stockport's museums include the Hat Works in Wellington Mill, a former hat factory, [85] and Stockport Air Raid Shelters in the tunnels dug in World War II to protect inhabitants in air raids. [86] Staircase House, a Grade II* listed medieval townhouse, [87] [17] houses the Stockport Story Museum. [88]
Tranmere contains one of the largest and most expensive World War II air raid shelters in the country. [21] The shelter consists of a series of tunnels stretching to a total length of 6,500 ft (2 km), and was designed to house up to 6,000 people; many of them workers at the strategically important Cammell Laird shipyard. By the time the tunnels ...