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Air Raid Practice

Vivienne14

Vivienne14

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There were a variety of rehearsal air raid precautions across Birmingham, many carried out at the start of WW2, especially in schools in non-evacuation areas.

Here are just three quite different practices. Does anyone remember being involved in a rehearsal ? Viv.

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A few here are clocking on a fair bit Vivienne but anyone would have to be in their late eighties or in their nineties to have been old enough to participate I guess. :D
 
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