It was called WB1400, look it up.
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Air raid siren. Worthing.
- Thread starter Hendrax
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It was called WB1400, look it up.
- Aug 8, 2005
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What's that you say? You'll have to speak up.
I,ve got a can of that in the bike shed.
Tokyohands
Well-known member
Is it from the hospital? I grew up in Shoreham and occasionally one would go off at the hospital there.
Can you tell whether or not it's been destroyed?
happypig
Staring at the rude boys
I had a call at work one day “are you responsible for WB1400 repairs for Portsmouth area?”
“Yes” says I
“Can you get someone to Newport town hall ASAP, the siren's been going off since 6AM”
Mass panic on the island over that one.
Taybha
Whalewhine
That was the hospital dinner bell .
That’s just reminded me of something Tay. I worked at St Francis on a few contracts many years ago and although we only mixed with some of the less unfortunate patients it was a regular daily occurrence that 2 or 3 of them would scream hysterically when a bell went off around midday. I remember asking a nurse if that signalled some sort of horrible therapy time or maybe EST but no I was informed that it was only the lunch bell. Although we could, we declined dining in there.
Tom Bombadil
Well-known member
removed as nsc mangled the quote
I remember something about this, a large WW2 bunker under the green?
Taybha
Whalewhine
- Jan 3, 2012
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- Jan 3, 2012
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maffew
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Used to go to school by Worcester porcelain and had a German exchange teacher. There was a big box of head phones in the class room. They had a siren go off for lunch (weird I know)
So when it went off we'd quickly all put on a pair of head phones and hide under the desks telling the teacher it was earthquake warning. She joined in 3 or 4 times bless her. She was crap with names too so we had to write them on a folded up bit of cardboard for her. I was Gary Lineker sitting next to Jon Bon Jovi sitting next to Axl Rose. Every lesson we would swap names with someone in the class. Poor lady
So when it went off we'd quickly all put on a pair of head phones and hide under the desks telling the teacher it was earthquake warning. She joined in 3 or 4 times bless her. She was crap with names too so we had to write them on a folded up bit of cardboard for her. I was Gary Lineker sitting next to Jon Bon Jovi sitting next to Axl Rose. Every lesson we would swap names with someone in the class. Poor lady
Shropshire Seagull
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If you were given notice of 15 mins to live, would you do anything different or carry on as you were? Imagine being at work ....
And if you did get 15 mins notice, would you be thankful for the opportunity?