NHER 27673 (Monument record) - Sites of World War Two air raid shelters

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Summary

Two small World War Two air raid shelters, at least one of which was possibly an Anderson shelter or similar proprietary design, are visible as earthworks and structures on 1940s aerial photographs. They lay in close proximity to each other, in the back gardens of houses on Harbord Crescent. Small shelters such as these were intended for the use of a single family or household, and many are visible in residential areas such as this on aerial photographs of the town taken at the end of the war. There is no evidence on more recent aerial photographs that any remnant of the two described here now survives above ground.

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None recorded

Location

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

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September 2005. Norfolk NMP.
Two World War Two air raid shelters are visible as earthworks and structures on aerial photographs (S1), centred at TG 5302 0602. The shelters lay in close proximity to each other, in the back gardens of 61 and 69 Harbord Crescent. The northern shelter, visible at TG 5301 0603, appears to be covered with a fresh layer of earth in 1945 (S1). This could have been a semi-sunken and covered Anderson shelter. The southern shelter, visible at TG 5302 0601, lacks any covering and was probably a surface shelter, although the possibility that it was an outbuilding cannot be discounted. There is no evidence on more recent aerial photographs that any of the shelters now survives above ground and they were probably levelled soon after the end of the war.
S. Tremlett (NMP), 28 September 2005.

Associated Sources (1)

<S1> SNF57691 Vertical Aerial Photograph: RAF. 1945. RAF 106G/UK/778 6020-1 08-SEP-1945 (NMR).