Piccadilly Station Air-Raid Shelter (Remains)

Below the streets of Manchester....

Manchester Corporation issued it's first list of designated public air-raid shelters in August 1939, under the Civil Defence Act.
It was estimated that around 500 shelters would be required for 100,000 people.

3 such Second World War air-raid shelters once occupied space underneath the now Manchester Picadilly Station.

All owned by L M & S Railway they had a combined capacity of 1275.


There is very little left of the shelters having had a mooch below street level the original entrance is sealed, with a further 2 sections bricked up and no longer accessible.

The only real features that remain are a Wardens Post, sealed Exit To Street Level, Ladies & Gents Toilets, remnants of Original Lighting and Signage.

Blueprint - (Greater Manchester County Record Office)

Passage Way

Remnants Of Original Lighting & Signage

Wardens Post

Ladies Toilets

Emergency Exit