NHER 27674 (Monument record) - Site of World War Two air raid shelter

September 2005. Norfolk NMP.
A World War Two air raid shelter is visible on aerial photographs (S1 and 2), centred at TG 5307 0606. Its size and its location in a municipal garden suggest that it was one of Great Yarmouth’s public shelters. It appears to have been being built in February 1941 (S1), although disturbed ground visible in this area on aerial photographs taken in 1940 (S3) indicates that construction may have started some time earlier. The shelter appears to have been almost entirely sunken; no distinct mound is visible (compare, for example, NHER 27679) and consequently only the probable extent of the shelter could be mapped. Two revetted entrances are visible at its northern and southern ends; square pits and concrete pads on its west side probably mark the location of ventilation shafts. No trace of the shelter is visible on more recent aerial photographs and it was presumably levelled soon after the end of the war.
S. Tremlett (NMP), 28 September 2005.