NHER 27556 (Monument record) - Sites of World War Two air raid shelters

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Summary

Two small World War Two air raid shelters, probably Anderson shelters, are visible as earthworks on 1940s aerial photographs. They lay in the gardens of 16 Hawkins Avenue and 11 Seymour Avenue. Small shelters like these were intended for the use of a single family or household. There is no evidence on more recent aerial photographs that any remnant of the two described here now survives above ground.

Protected Status/Designation

  • None recorded

Location

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

Map

August 2005. Norfolk NMP.
Two World War Two air raid shelters are visible as earthworks (probably earth covered structures) on aerial photographs (S1). The shelters lay in close proximity to each other, in the gardens of houses bordered by Hawkins Avenue and Seymour Avenue, at approximately TG 5257 0975 and TG 5258 0971. Both are likely to have been earth covered Anderson shelters or a similar proprietary design. There is no evidence on more recent aerial photographs or modern maps that either of them now survives above ground and they were probably levelled soon after the end of the war.
S. Tremlett (NMP), 5 August 2005.

  • <S1> Vertical Aerial Photograph: RAF. 1945. RAF 106G/UK/726 5152-3 26-AUG-1945 (NMR).

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Record last edited

Dec 7 2010 11:54AM

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