Claim: Woodhouse Moor was a place where crowds gathered to hear public speakers; it used to have extensive castles with moats, but after the Second World War, the Moor changed purposes to house air raid shelters and allotments.
Evidence: With the Second World War, the tank was melted down and the Moor given over to more utilitarian purposes such as air raid shelters and allotments (some of which still exist). By November 1937, there had only been slow progress, because of a serious lack of data on which to base any design recommendations and the Committee proposed that the Home Office should have its own department for research into structural precautions, rather than relying on research work done by the Bombing Test Committee to support the development of bomb design and strategy. In February 1936 the Home Secretary appointed a technical Committee on Structural Precautions against Air Attack. This proposal was eventually implemented in January 1939. During the Munich crisis, local authorities dug trenches to provide shelter. The Munich Agreement (Czech: Mnichovská dohoda; Slovak: Mníchovská dohoda; German: Münchner Abkommen) or Munich Betrayal (Czech: Mnichovská zrada; Slovak: Mníchovská zrada) was an agreement concluded at Munich on 30 September 1938, by Nazi Germany, the United Kingdom, the French Third Republic and the Kingdom of Italy. As with Hyde Park, London this was a place where crowds would gather to hear public speakers, on specially built platforms.