‘PUT that light out’ was the cry reverberating around Tudor House at the weekend.
Re-enactors, dressed as air raid shelter wardens, turned the clock back more than 60 years to show how people might have reacted during an air raid in the Second World War.
The show was part of a 1940s event at Tudor House, Friar Street, held between 10am and 4pm on Saturday. Visitors also saw fashions from the wartime era on display and examples of how people’s homes might have looked.
They also attended stirrup pump training, learnt how to tackle the dreaded incendiary bomb, discovered how to spot enemy aircraft and met evacuation officers.
The event, showing how the nation battled to cope with the difficulties of rationing and air raids, was one of the popular Living History series run by Worcester re-enactors Discover History.
Paul Harding, of Discover History, said: “Air raid wardens played a vital role.
“They would register everyone near the post and police the city during raids.”
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