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Air Raid Precautions at Yeomanry House, Reading

Photograph from Reading Chronicle Collection - January 1939

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Air Raid Precautions at Yeomanry House in Reading.

Air Raid Precautions training took place inside the Drill Hall at Yeomanry House on Coley Avenue in Reading. Air Raid Precautions were set up as a prelude to the Second World War by way of protecting and preparing civilians in the case of an air raid.

This photograph was taken for the Berkshire Chronicle but was not published.

Museum object number REDMG : 1980.36.A171.7

See related topic: Reading Chronicle

See related topic: Reading and the Second World War