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Orleans Man Finds Concrete Shelter in Garden

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  1. GRW

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    You'll need Google translate, but good story-
    "A vestige of the Second World War, right in his garden ... this is the incredible discovery made by Johël Ducasse. When he bought his house on the towpath in Orléans in 2008, the former owner told him that an air raid shelter was under his land, but no one could locate it. Johël had even ended up thinking that it was another " Orléans rumor ".
    Last November, when he turned the soil in his garden by hand, he felt his shovel hit something hard. He dug and there, after having moved hundreds of kilos of rubble and scrap metal, he uncovered a reinforced concrete air-raid shelter capable of sheltering nearly 10 people! With two vents provided outside, its architect hoped to escape the Allied bombing.
    explains Johël.
    " When we returned to the bunker with my wife, we were hoping to find a treasure, says Johël, if we had found one we would not have told anyone ," he adds with a laugh.
    In the absence of a treasure, he and his wife unearthed a bowl lined with a newspaper. It allowed them to date the filling of the air-raid shelter at the beginning of the 1970s."
    VIDEO. Orléans : il découvre un abri antiaérien datant de la Seconde Guerre mondiale dans son jardin
     
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