Stockport air raid shelters

During WW2 they knocked some old houses down which were built into the sandstone "cliff" and discovered that the occupants had tunnelled back into the sandstone from their kitchens and made storage rooms. This gave them the idea to create a series of tunnels to use as air raid shelters. There is a first aid room and a mini hospital down there and miles of passages with bunk beds in for the residents of Stockport to sleep during a raid. L was appalled at the toilet facilities which consisted of round holes into a sewer pipe. We had to explain what an old bedpan was and what a gas mask was for. How on earth they got kids to sleep down there I don't know, it's pretty spooky! Those are the bed frames in the photo.