Tickets Alert: Visit Mortlake’s WWII air raid shelter

On a side street not far from Mortlake station is a set of 1930s residential flats, and in front a curious brick building – the entrance to an underground air-raid shelter.
St. Leonards Court air raid shelter (c) ianVisits
To build the shelter, the lawn in front of the flats was excavated, and it seems likely that the excavated soil was then piled on top to create additional protection, as there’s a wall and a deep hedge running around the site today.
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