LAST week’s feature looking at reminders of the Second World War sparked a few memories from local people. It seems that many people opted for the safety of their own cellars during the many air raids of the period, rather than the public shelters constructed across the city. As Brian Pingriff recalled: “When war was declared against Germany in the autumn of 1939, I was three-and-a-half years old and living in Lower Chestnut Street in the Arboretum. “A large air raid shelter had been built of brick with a thick concrete flat roof and situated on the opposite side of the road.