BorLCA4/4a

Free 'Garden Shelters' .These files have been heavily weeded. Original letters have been preserved especially when give details on family size, wages (ineligible unless £250 pa. or under with 50+ extra for first 2 children), trade etc. also details re evacuees in house.

Sept. - Dec. 1939

From: 1939 To: 1939

Complaints were mainly centred on delays in supply by Luton Borough who were again hampered by the short supply especially of larger 'free' shelters by the Home Office. 'Anderson' type shelters appear to have let in a lot of water and in the marshier areas of the town these were replaced by brick and concrete shelters. N.B. letters to Ellen Wilkinson M.P. by same, exasperated by the delays. The original letters are interesting for their grammar and spelling in showing the incompleteness of the literacy of the residents of the Borough.

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LUTON, ARP, air raid shelters, evacuees, Luton MPs, literacy, wages/conditions, Home Office