He was also responsible for providing public shelters.
A surviving Anderson Shelter in Manston, Kent.
During the war a further 2.1 million were erected.
The shelters were made of six curved panels of corrugated steel bolted together at the top with steel plates.
This formed the main body of the shelter.
Additional straight sheets on either side acted as walls.
Each shelter was capable of housing four adults and two children.
Anderson shelters were distributed free to all householders who earned less than 5 a week.
Those with a higher income were charged 7 for their shelter.
A South London resident waters the vegetables planted on the roof of her Anderson shelter.
You were supposed to go into your Anderson shelter every night.
I used to take my knitting.
I used to knit all night.
I was too frightened to go to sleep.
Pig iron is piled on top of an Anderson air raid shelter to test its efficiency and strength.
The rest were either on duty at night or slept in their own homes.
The latter group felt that, if they were going to die, they would rather die in comfort.
Many families tried to brighten their shelters in various ways.
More than a handful of these shelters survive to this day.
Air raid shelters under construction at a factory in Newport, Wales.
A man figuring out how to assemble an Anderson shelter in his backyard.
A man fashions a blast door for his shelter out of a wooden table.
Alan and Doris Suter step down into their Anderson shelter in London.
Actors are recorded for a film about Anderson shelters.
The MacKenzie family take shelter during an air raid.
A decorated Anderson shelter.
A family inspects their Anderson shelter with a 30-foot-deep bomb crater nearby.
Anderson shelters remain intact following a night of heavy bombing in east London.
An Anderson shelter remains intact amid devastation in Croydon.
Locals inspect an Anderson shelter next to a bomb crater.
Despite the proximity of the blast, the two occupants of the shelter survived with minor bruises.
The three people that had been inside the shelter were not hurt.
An Anderson shelter standing intact amid a scene of debris in Norwich.
