World War II Bunker

We have received this intriguing enquiry from Alan Stewart who is a County Information Officer for the British Resistance Archive/Coleshill Auxiliary Research Team, an online resource and internal network for serious researchers who focus on the the British Resistance Movement (Auxiliary Units) during World War II. 

World War II Bunker

I grew up in Sheffield, in Totley, S17 3NT. We lived in an Edwardian house with a long garden. At number 10 Devonshire Road, next door, the garden was much longer, ending in an old woodland. There was a very strange WW2 bunker there, with two vertical trapdoor lidded shafts, which we were always told to keep away from. The entrances were a good 30 feet apart. To my knowledge, it is still there and was quite elaborate with runged access down and unlike domestic Nissen huts, still prevalent in friends gardens at the time. 

Would anybody in your group have any information on this?
 

Regards

Alan Stewart

We have no knowledge of this bunker and wonder if any of our readers can help. It was not unknown that a number of unique and elaborately designed bunkers were built by senior industrialists and engineers who lived in our area. 

At the start of the war, 10 Devonshire Road was occupied by Frank and Daisy Welch who moved there around 1936. In one of many articles and advertisements placed in Sheffield newspapers, Daisy refers to her home as being in a "Neutral Area."