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Mary Andrews has light brown, shoulder length hair and is wearing a blue bobble hat which covers her head. She has brown-frame glasses and a dark green overcoat over a brown woollen jumper with white hedgehog designs on it. She is standing in the open doorway of a small air raid shelter with a new wooded door with a green doorframe, some bare shrub branches are growing on a wooden fence.
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Archaeologist finds air raid shelter in her garden in Chatteris

An archaeologist said she was “delighted” to discover a World War Two air raid shelter in her back garden after removing some overgrowth.

Mary Andrews, 35, bought the end-of-terrace Victorian house in Chatteris, Cambridgeshire, in January and was told the building at the bottom of the back garden was an old brick shed.

The structure was covered with heavily overgrown shrubs and when the plants were removed a 22-cm (9-in) concrete roof was exposed.

After some research, Ms Andrews said she found the mystery outhouse was a WW2 domestic surface air raid shelter.

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