HILLCREST SCHOOL AIR RAID SHELTERS

I can remember going into the air raid shelters, I would have started at the school in 1941 coming up from the juniors in the March.  I left Newhaven in 1956, often when we came back I wondered where the shelters were, I thought they were (in) the upper play ground. Must when down next have a look at them.          

I spent many an hour in the shelters, during school time, the teachers had us singing songs, while siting on wooden benches when the air raids were on.

I wonder if they still there or have the entrances been blocked up ? 

I remember my mum telling me about these air raid shelters. Whilst playing truant sometime during the 1960s, my mum, her older sister and their friend decided to investigate them and thought it'd be a good idea to walk in one entrance, strike a match to guide their way through the shelter and come back out through another door. Almost halfway through, all three saw the ghost of a soldier in front of them, swiftly turned around and ran as fast as they could out the door they came in through and all the way back home to Peacehaven without saying a single word!