He was tidying up the basement of the building and found a refuge from World War II

A woman was perplexed to discover a intact bomb shelter of World War II in the basement of the building where he moved with his family in Edinburgh, Scotland.

Mia Grey and the other residents of the house have paid no attention to the space since they thought it was a locker after finding it littered with old paint cans and discarded items.

But only when a new neighbor asked about the room did they carefully explore it. And that’s when they discovered its original purpose as a refuge with many gods perfectly preserved original features over 77 years laterrelationships Edinburgh live.

Mia has lived in the building since December 2016, along with her husband and young children, explaining that she hadn’t given the room a second look until Liz Mowbray recently relocated e they wanted to clean.

“When we first moved in, we thought it was a basement storage room. The door was ajar but it looked full of rubbish,” the man told the UK outlet.

And she continues her story: “Then a new neighbor discovered that the rubbish didn’t belong to anyone who lived there at the time, so she proceeded to have it removed”.

After tidying up and cleaning everything was more visible: Old sinks, an old heater and shabby wooden triple bunks for residents in case they need to take refuge in the basement.

A bench also appeared which runs all around the walls, “No smoking” signs and an emergency exit.

“The roof is reinforced with sheet metal. It’s an old bathroom, so it still has two sinks, a mangle and a boiler,” the woman points out.

The mother of the two boys was surprised that such “piece of history” would have been under your feet for so many yearsreflects Mirror.

“Obviously the laundry room was no longer needed, so nobody went down there,” she says.

Suspicions today are that it was simply used as storage by a previous occupant after the war, and in the end nobody bothered to throw anything away.