Camels Head Schools Air Raid Shelter. Past rekindled I WAS interested in the report headline A hole lot of excitement about school tunnel. As a boy, I attended Camels Head School (as it was called then) throughout World War Two. The indentation that has appeared in the playground is the entrance to one of the two air raid shelters. There was one in each playground, boys' and girls', facing the dockyard. Many times during the war, we were herded into them as German bombers came and tried to hit the two rail bridges, one at the back of the school (Southern Railway) and the other (Great Western Railway) at the front. They missed them both, although they dropped bombs at Church Way and in Weston Mill village, as well as machine-gunning the school. Some of the scars in the walls are still there today. This Shelter has now been filled in and know longer exists.Under Plymouth and hidden away remain a series of WWII air raid shelters. Many have been destroyed by development and for health and safety reasons been filled in never to be seen again. But if you do a little research you might be lucky to find the few that remain. This WWII shelter has been filled in and lost forever. Images by Plymouth commercial photographer Custard Duck.

Camels Head Schools Air Raid Shelter. Past rekindled I WAS interested in the report headline A hole lot of excitement about school tunnel. As a boy, I attended Camels Head School (as it was called then) throughout World War Two. The indentation that has appeared in the playground is the entrance to one of the two air raid shelters. There was one in each playground, boys' and girls', facing the dockyard. Many times during the war, we were herded into them as German bombers came and tried to hit the two rail bridges, one at the back of the school (Southern Railway) and the other (Great Western Railway) at the front. They missed them both, although they dropped bombs at Church Way and in Weston Mill village, as well as machine-gunning the school. Some of the scars in the walls are still there today. This Shelter has now been filled in and know longer exists.Under Plymouth and hidden away remain a series of WWII air raid shelters. Many have been destroyed by development and for health and safety reasons been filled in never to be seen again. But if you do a little research you might be lucky to find the few that remain. This WWII shelter has been filled in and lost forever. Images by Plymouth commercial photographer Custard Duck.