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Wearethemods
Aberdeenshire
16 of 25  Tue 4th Oct 2016 3:46pm  

On 23rd Sep 2016 8:53am, NeilsYard said: See my post No.7 Kev - yes they were for the 50th. I wonder if the nuclear sirens are still in place and if so - where are they? (not that I want to hear them!) Oh my
I've waited a while before responding to this, however I can elaborate in that the sirens are still in existence in all parts of the UK. I was involved with the Warwick County Council Emergency Planning Dept. throughout the 1980's (a dept. which exists in all Local Authorities). Sirens used to be, and presumably still are, silent-tested on a weekly basis. The main one in Coventry was at Little Park Street Police HQ and the responsible person inadvertently 'pressed the wrong button' twice in the 80's resulting in the previous 'Telegraph' report on one occasion. The same happened in Warwick once. In answer to NeilsYard. The sirens are situated on the roofs of public buildings and schools, (even single storey and Primary) in the suburbs. That's about all I'd better say! Already mentioned on the 'Ministry of Pensions' fire topic were the 'secret' contents of the locked top floor but that's another story!
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Annewiggy
Tamworth
17 of 25  Tue 4th Oct 2016 5:14pm  

There used to be one of the roof of the EMEB offices in Sandy Lane. It was still there when I worked there in 1963 to 1972 as I remember it was tested. This building was the offices to the Daimler during the war, in fact I believe it was the part of the factory left standing after the Daimler was bombed. The building is now Harp Place. I have tried to look on Google maps to see if it is still there!
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Wearethemods
Aberdeenshire
18 of 25  Tue 4th Oct 2016 6:01pm  

Hi Annewiggy, is it? Same with the old Armstrong Siddeley Works in Parkside, but they were disconnected in the 1970's.
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Tony1
Coventry
19 of 25  Tue 4th Oct 2016 6:36pm  

On 4th Oct 2016 5:14pm, Annewiggy said: There used to be one of the roof of the EMEB offices in Sandy Lane. It was still there when I worked there in 1963 to 1972 as I remember it was tested. This building was the offices to the Daimler during the war, in fact I believe it was the part of the factory left standing after the Daimler was bombed. The building is now Harp Place. I have tried to look on Google maps to see if it is still there!
Hello The Harp Place building today is used for Adult Education Courses running from Monday to Friday. The address is 2 Sandy Lane which I believe was the offices of EMEB.
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matchle55
Coventry
20 of 25  Tue 4th Oct 2016 9:29pm  

There used to be one on the top of the Severn Trent pumping station in Alderminster Rd, off Broad Lane. I seem to remember hearing it when I was at Woodlands School, 59-64.
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Midland Red

21 of 25  Sat 5th Nov 2016 10:41am  

On 4th Oct 2016 6:36pm, Tony1 said: The Harp Place building today is used for Adult Education Courses running from Monday to Friday. The address is 2 Sandy Lane which I believe was the offices of EMEB.
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pixrobin
Canley
22 of 25  Sat 5th Nov 2016 12:27pm  

The Severn Trent pumping station in Alderminster Road
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Inyoni
east london r.s.a.
23 of 25  Wed 24th Feb 2021 5:00pm  

On the subject of air raid sirens... I am not sure if others have mentioned it but the Keresley Colliery ground shuddering, short warning bellows from their emergency hooter was in complete contrast to, and more nerve racking to me than the normal sirens' sceaming wails which were generally of similar sound. The open countryside between the two Keresleys did little to absorb the sound either and on occasions the big guns near the corner of Sandpits Lane let rip at the same time,which livened things up no end under my share of the kitchen table. In the morning the same continuous all clear bellow was music to our ears, got ready for school and was bussed out from my Keresley to New Keresley, to Newlands School, as it was considered too dangerous at our end. I've no idea where the school is/was in relation to the mine and it never went off in the time I was bussed out there during the day that l can remember. I am always reminded of that type of steam siren when films of the pre war Queen Mary, Queen Elizabeth and Normandie era are shown docking or sailing and blowing off that same sound.
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Kaga simpson
Peacehaven, East Sussex
24 of 25  Wed 24th Feb 2021 5:34pm  

The sound would have me in tears, that I would not be ashamed of. I think the real last one I heard was in March 45 when a V2 rocket hit Smithfield Market in London and killed over a hundred workers. No, never again for me.
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Derrickarthur
Coventry
25 of 25  Wed 24th Feb 2021 7:55pm  

Took my late mother to the Blitz exhibit at Flambards in Cornwall about 25 years ago. She was really interested in all the household items from her youth but when the air raid siren went off, the colour drained out of her and we had to leave. She was visibly shaking.
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