This painted sign has somehow survived 65 years and indicates the site of a likely still intact Second World War air raid shelter for 367 people.
Middlesbrough Air Raid Shelter Sign
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I suppose even more remarkable given the area’s considerable redevelopment over the years.
Whereabouts is this?
Thats what the “Show On Map” button on every post is for 🙂
A nice hidden sign (I hope it is still there) is / was on the East gable end side of the road that used to be Redcar Bus Staion where at the top was the faint shadow of a painted announcement for “United – Fast coaches to York Doncaster and London by the Great North Road – day or night”
And (a pedant speaks) antoher sign that i know is still in place. On a door lintel beside the Yorskhire Bank in Church Street, Guisborough, there is a painted pub notice stating that’this house is open in the afternoons of a Tuesday for people attending the market and mart’. (that was for the cattle mart that used to be held at the rear of Patten Lane until the early 1970’s) The bank now occupies the building that was the old Red Lion pub. The sign must date from about about 1917 when the new licensing hours came into place. Before they were repealed in the 198o’s markets whihc enjoyed licensing exceptions were always a good bet for afternoon boozing at a timee when most pubs closed at 2.30 or 3.00 p.m. !
Wonder if there is still a shelter there? Theres a few old ghost signs around Middlesbrough including and old Esso one
Just to let everyone know that it is still there. Would love a look around myself, something very creepy about a shelter like this I always feel, even more so when the area was actually bombed as well.
http://rememberwhen.gazettelive.co.uk/2010/03/sheltering-from-the-blitz.html