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East End Reacts To Government's Bomb Shelters
London, March 22.
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Standing or sitting, which way do you take up least room? they were asking yesterday across the front fences in Bethnal Green, E.
All along Clarkson-street women and children were waiting at front doors, having a half-hour holiday from work while delivery men - heaved A.R.P. shelter parts into back-yards.
"They don't look big enough to room for air to breathe,” said Mrs. hold all of us," said the women.
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lives Mrs. Edith Stewart, who upstairs at No. 27 with her hus- "Ye'll be band and baby, said: live sardines, tin and all."
Below the Stewarts live Mrs. Cordelia Cable, her husband, and their three children. "That's eight if they altogether in this house. don't get the children away in time."
Each shelter, according to officials, is supposed to hold four people.
But that brings little comfort to Mr. and Mrs. Patten, at 23, Clark- son-street.
"We are small eaters, really," said Mrs. Patten. "We're just naturally big people. He's about seventeen And look at stone, my husband. me. I'm fourteen stone and six feet tall without high heels."
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Mrs. Patten and I worked out cubic capacities and decided there would just be room for them in their shelter. But not much left over for the young couple who live upstairs. The shelters, 6ft. Gins. long, 4ft. 6in. wide, 6ft, high, would have 179,- 4 clubic feet of space inside them if the roof didn't curve. The curve, beginning about four feet up the wall, cuts off about thirty cubic feet of the space, na
Patten. "And I wonder if we can get the shelter into the garden with- out uprooting our tree."
The Pattens have a cherry tree, that only one in all the back-yards of their street and the next one.
"It's been here eighty years or more, ," she said. "In May you can smell it from way down at the other end of the row."
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The new shelter brought two pro- blems to Mr. and Mrs. Percy Wright a few doors away from the Pattens.
Problem No. 1: Mr. Wright wants to know can a man really put up the shelter by himselffe
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Daniel J. King, town clerk of list includes no Bethnal Green, in a circular letter; with a total est says; "The more people who get the £120,000. Some council to erect and sink shelters, nearly £20,000 e Bequests in w the more will be the cost of your rates; but this is better than having are invariably the shelters not properly. con-precision, and I structed."
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Problem No. 2: Mrs. Wright wants to know-How am I going to get the family into the shelter?
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"Then there is Oscar, the rabbit, legal forms. and the birds (four budgerigars in Assuming the Pattens, broad-two cages and five canaries). shouldered and broad-hipped, to be and Freda, too." cylindrical with diameters of twenty Freda is the cat. inches, they alone, without bulky coats, boots, chairs or benches, will take up twenty-six cubic feet of space. But human beings need more than their own cubic, capacity to live in.
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And just to give Mrs. Wright an extra problem there was a smear of red along the wallpaper in the hall.
"It's from these girders, the delivery man said. dripping wet with paint.”
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