article_snippet.sent: Britain's biggest purpose-built air raid shelter, which could hold 6,500 people, was so sophisticated it even had electric lighting and flush toilets.
article_snippet.sent: This shows one of the rooms of Britain's largest purpose-built air raid shelter, located in Stockport, Greater Manchester .
article_snippet.sent: The women's toilets, equipped with a proper flush, located deep inside the Stockport air raid shelter .
article_snippet.sent: they were used extensively by people from Manchester and Salford, and even as far as Eccles.
article_snippet.sent: Stockport was less of a target, and the underground shelters were a particularly safe place. '
article_snippet.sent: We still have some letters from people in Manchester who'd been bombed out several times. '
article_snippet.sent: Stockport was heavily bombed between 1940 and 1941, but escaped serious damage - unlike nearby Manchester, which as an industrial hub came under sustained attack from the German air force.