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Questions Source 1Source 2Source 3Source 4Source 5
5a In the extract from Mrs. Fleming's letter to the Ministry of Security, she listed problems that she had found in public air raid shelters.
Can you make a list of these problems?

5b What do you think was the worst of the problems listed by Mrs. Fleming?

5c Do you think that the government could or should have done anything about these problems?

Letters and drawings from Jenny Fleming addressed to Herbert Morrison 23 October 1940 & 10 November 1940

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Letters and drawings from Jenny Fleming addressed to Herbert Morrison 23 October