NHER 27589 (Monument record) - Site of World War Two air raid shelter

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Summary

A possible World War Two domestic air raid shelter, probably an Anderson shelter or similar proprietary design, is visible as an earthwork on aerial photographs in the back garden of 80 Rodney Road. Small shelters such as 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 shelter 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.
A possible World War Two air raid shelter is visible as an earthwork on aerial photographs (S1), centred at TG 5274 0725. The site is partially obscured by vegetation and shadow on the consulted aerial photographs, but it appears to have consisted of a sub oval mound (presumably an earth covered structure) with a sunken entrance at its northern end. It may have been an earth covered Anderson shelter or a similar proprietary design, intended for the use of the occupants of 80 Rodney Road. Its absence on more recent aerial photographs suggests that it has been levelled since the end of the war.
S. Tremlett (NMP), 19 August 2005.

  • <S1> Vertical Aerial Photograph: RAF. 1945. RAF 106G/UK/726 5161-2 26-AUG-1945 (NMR).

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Record last edited

Oct 5 2012 1:51PM

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