We might have discovered an air raid shelter!

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What do we do?

I asked our builders to lift a couple of sunken slabs in the garden and they've found some corrugated metal sides, filled in with stuff but also with gaps. Bit early to say yet! Building inspector has been today and isn't concerned as it doesn't affect our extension and foundations. He said we can do what we like with it!

DH is getting over excited at the possibility of digging it out and creating a man cave! --where I can lock him in if he is winding me up-/

Anyone know much about them?

I would be over the moon with one of those. I'd turn it into a proper zombie cupboard

Ooooo we had one somewhere I lived when I first met Dh!

About 20 years ago in Edinburgh we found the same, but with metal bunk beds. How cool is that?

Very cool 7to25!!

Yeah we are quite excited. I'm thinking wine cellar!!

Metal bunks?!

Cooooooool!

if it's an anderson shelter (very likely) then the corrugated iron it is made of may be very badly rusted by now, and could give way from the weight of peoole or earth on top.

No harm in digging it out for a look.

we had one in our garden when i was little. (We lived in the colonies in lochend edinburgh. It was used as a shed. It's still there (Had a nosey on googlemaps ) 30 years later.

I'd dig yours up and have a look at what state it's in. Could be turned into a shed or wee man cave if not too badly rusted.

Good luck.

I have one - it is fully brick built with brick steps going down and a thick concrete roof - there is a bunk bed frame inside. It is a feat of engineering IMO as it is fully subterranean and our garden is solid chalk about a foot down!

DS2 was meant to fully excavate it this summer but never got round to it.

We had an Anderson shelter at our old house.
It was fantastic as a den for the dc. There were still the steps leading down to it. We lived in a small village only 30 dc in the school.
We invited them all round as part of History ww2 and they loved it.
Our dc slept in it a couple of times and we turned it into a lovely place.
Think the people who bought the house filled it in.
If it is and you do decide to fill it in, please take lots of photo's maybe a museum will be interested in them, especially if well preserved.

I don't think it's well preserved unfortunately as the metal doesn't look in great condition. But we'd be daft not to dig it out and have a look what's there and if it can be saved!
The reason we lifted the flags to investigate initially is because they were sinking and had created an unsafe step, so if we can't make it into anything it'll need making safe and filling properly, if nothing else. That'd be a shame though. The DDs would love it!!

We had a solid brick one with a concrete roof in our back garden growing up. The council had taken away all our neighbour's shelters but the mad old bat who lived in our house before us wouldn't let them take it away.