NHER 27671 (Monument record) - Sites of World War Two air raid shelters

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Summary

Five small World War Two air raid shelters, at least some of which were probably Anderson shelters or similar proprietary designs, are visible as earthworks and structures on 1940s aerial photographs. They lay in close proximity to each other, in the gardens of houses on South Beach Parade. Small shelters such as these were intended for the use of a single family or household, and numerous examples 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 those 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.
Five World War Two air raid shelters are visible as earthworks and structures on aerial photographs (S1), centred around TG 5305 0594. The shelters lay in close proximity to each other, in the gardens of 5, 8, 12, 13 and 18 South Beach Parade. Two of the shelters (at TG 5306 0596 and TG 5305 0595) are visible as earthwork mounds, and these are probably covered, semi-sunken structures such as Anderson shelters. The remaining shelters are uncovered or only lightly covered, and they appear to be surface shelters. The structure at TG 5305 0593 may be another Anderson shelter; the structure at TG 5305 0599 can be identified as a shelter only tentatively. 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).