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Air Raid Shelter on Waterloo Road [????- ]

Submitted by David on Wed, 04/20/2016 - 13:59

I heard about this some time back, and finally had a chance to take a look last Friday.

If you start off on on the north side of Argyle Street, by the old CLP Headquarters, walk with the hill on your left and you'll follow the curve of the path around into Waterloo Road.

There's a big concrete retaining wall on your left, and if you keep a look out you'll spot this metal sign fixed to it:

C) Precautionary Measures

Submitted by Suziepie on Tue, 03/27/2012 - 15:34

Precautionary Measures

Public expenditure had also greatly increased. Air raid tunnels – thought incapable of sheltering more than a tithe of the teeming population – had been constructed at a cost of $8,000,000. Further large expenditure built up a food and fuel reserve, large enough to furnish a siege ration for 150 days for two million people. More than $1,000,000 was needed to build decentralised stores (58 in number) for this vast quantity of food. Government borrowed $20,000,000 and took over the rice import trade.