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CAN ANY ONE TELL ME IF LEEDS STILL TESTED THE EARLY WARNING SYSTEM ON A FRIDAYS ABOUT 11AM I WONDER IF ANY ONE HEARD IT TOO USE TO GO ON FOR AGES COULD HERE IT FROM WHERE I LIVED IN BEESTON

You may like to read the info under the 3rd picture of this link James. http://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fusea ... 371646006I think it answers your question for you mate     

Phill_d wrote: You may like to read the info under the 3rd picture of this link James. http://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fusea ... 371646006I think it answers your question for you mate      Was this not a 'private' system Phill, in case of problems at the factory?The civil defence ones were tested very infrequently and were certainly penetrating. These were usually mounted on were regarded as permanent structures (one on Allerton High School - soon to be gone!) and the signaling lines were monitored by Post Office Telecoms.Do these still exist?

The info regarding the alarms been tested and heard miles away came from a group of guys who worked at Hunslet.. I let them use some of my archive pics.. They mailed me a load of info about the place to put on the blog. I think it' safe to say the alarm James heard at 11 on a Friday will be the same Friday morning 11 o'clock Hunslet alarm?? It isn't too far away.    

I only ever saw one "early warning" device. It was in the Coal Board's workshops in Sheffield. It looked like a telephone and used to bleep very so often, written on it was the advice that if the bleep went to a single note that was the four minute warning - pretty scary!

We used to hear that siren from school at cross green

THANKYOU EVERYONE FOR YOUR INFORMATION I THOUGHT THERE WAS A SIREN IN THE TOWNHALL TOWER IN CASE THERE WAS A OUTBREAK OF A NUCULAR ATTACK ON THE CITY TOO I ALSO SAW SIGNS ON YELLOW N BLACK IN BLACK TRAINGES THOUGHT THE WAS FALL OUT SHELTERS IN LEEDS INNER RING ROAD

jamesy08 wrote: THANKYOU EVERYONE FOR YOUR INFORMATION I THOUGHT THERE WAS A SIREN IN THE TOWNHALL TOWER IN CASE THERE WAS A OUTBREAK OF A NUCULAR ATTACK ON THE CITY TOO I ALSO SAW SIGNS ON YELLOW N BLACK IN BLACK TRAINGES THOUGHT THE WAS FALL OUT SHELTERS IN LEEDS INNER RING ROAD Didn't anyone tell you Leeds was a nuclear free zone? I assume that meant that the Russians would see the signs and turn around and go home....

raveydavey wrote: jamesy08 wrote: THANKYOU EVERYONE FOR YOUR INFORMATION I THOUGHT THERE WAS A SIREN IN THE TOWNHALL TOWER IN CASE THERE WAS A OUTBREAK OF A NUCULAR ATTACK ON THE CITY TOO I ALSO SAW SIGNS ON YELLOW N BLACK IN BLACK TRAINGES THOUGHT THE WAS FALL OUT SHELTERS IN LEEDS INNER RING ROAD Didn't anyone tell you Leeds was a nuclear free zone? I assume that meant that the Russians would see the signs and turn around and go home.... So was Bradford so we should have been doubly safe in Morley

Does anyone remember the sirens for the whole city sounding at the time of the Suez crisis in 1956, a large chunk of the populace thought the end was nigh. The Evening post went potty as there was no warning that it was just a test.