NHER 27496 (Monument record) - Site of World War Two air raid shelter

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Summary

A probable air raid shelter dating to World War Two is visible as an earthwork (probably an earth covered structure) on 1940s aerial photographs. It is located within the grounds of a plant nursery and may have been provided for the use of gardeners employed there. The site is now occupied by a post war building.

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None recorded

Location

Map sheet	TG50NW
Civil Parish	GREAT YARMOUTH, GREAT YARMOUTH, NORFOLK

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July 2005. Norfolk NMP.
A probable World War Two air raid shelter is visible, probably as an earth-covered structure, on aerial photographs (S1) and (S2), centred at approximately TG 5207 0830. Few details of the shelter can be made out, but it was probably a semi-sunken structure with an entrance on its north side. It is larger than the small shelters designed for a single household and may have been constructed for the use of gardeners employed at the plant nursery in which it is located (S3). The site has been built over since the end of the war and the shelter was presumably levelled.
S. Tremlett (NMP), 20 July 2005.

Associated Sources (3)

<S1> SNF56567 Vertical Aerial Photograph: RAF. 1944. RAF HLA/698 4055-6 08-APR-1944 (NMR).
<S2> SNF56495 Vertical Aerial Photograph: RAF. 1945. RAF 106G/UK/726 5131-2 26-AUG-1945 (NMR).
<S3> SNF56414 Map: Ordnance Survey. 1902-7. Ordnance Survey second edition 25" (1902-7) Sheet LXVI. 15.

Site and Feature Types and Periods (1)

AIR RAID SHELTER (World War Two - 1939 AD to 1945 AD)

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Record last edited

Dec 7 2010 11:45AM