How many memories linger here. This is not an easy question. Records are at times vague, inaccurate and often misleading. Whichever way it is looked at, there were hundreds and probably 100 or so shelters survive today. Other strange items included empty sea-shells such as Limpets or Periwinkles.
Some shelters have much of their construction fabric, fittings and furnishings remaining.
Soft drink bottles that never were returned for their deposit, signs telling you to collect the keys from a now derelict lodge. The lamp will light no more darkness and the wooden bench will have no more company. There are one or two items of 'trivia' that may be of interest. Firstly, there are basically two common types of Plymouth public underground Air-Raid Shelters. Both types appear to occur in roughly equal numbers in the City and often if two shelters are built in the same playground or park, one may be 'Arch' and the other 'Square'.