NHER 27669 (Monument record) - Site of World War Two air raid shelter

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Summary

A small World War Two air raid shelter, possibly an Anderson shelter or similar proprietary design, is visible as an earthwork on aerial photographs taken in 1945. It lay in the back garden of a house on Harbord Crescent. 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 the shelter described here now survives above ground.

Protected Status/Designation

None recorded

Location

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

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September 2005. Norfolk NMP.
A probable World War Two air raid shelter is visible as an earthwork on aerial photographs (S1), centred at TG 5304 0587. It lay in the back garden of 92 Harbord Crescent. The earthwork mound visible on the photographs presumably covered a semi sunken structure, possibly an Anderson shelter or a similar design. It is not visible on more recent aerial photographs of the site and was presumably 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).