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North Shields wartime hero Ellen Lee commemorated with new plaque

Ellen Lee North Shields Albert ARP

A wartime heroine who saved more than 30 lives after an air raid shelter was hit by a bomb has been honoured after years of campaigning to win the recognition her bravery deserved.

A blue commemorative plaque to Mrs Ellen Lee has been unveiled in George Street in North Shields – the site of Wilkinson’s lemonade factory, whose basement was used as an air raid shelter by 192 people on the night of May 3-4 in 1941. A bomb from a lone German raider destroyed the factory. A total of 107 men, women and children were killed in what is believed to be the largest single bomb loss of life outside London in the war.

Mrs Lee was an ARP (Air Raid Precautions) warden in charge of the shelter. In the immediate aftermath of the blast, she found the exit door blocked with fallen rubble.

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