air-raid shelter

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When surveyors for a much delayed $12 billion road project under the River Thames scoured for bats, they found six in an abandoned World War II air-raid shelter.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 12, 2025

Harmony Wu, 18, was surprised to learn that an underground shopping concourse where she and other youngsters were recently rehearsing some dance moves would be turned into an air-raid shelter in the event of war.

From Reuters • Aug. 2, 2022

Both parents were Irish immigrants and his family later settled in Heston, in west London, where he spent his early years in an air-raid shelter during the Blitz.

From Washington Post • Nov. 17, 2019

The tunnels were hand-dug during World War Two and were used as an air-raid shelter.

From BBC • Nov. 1, 2014

We had an air-raid shelter installed in our house.

From "My Life with the Chimpanzees" by Jane Goodall