NHER 27699 (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 a similar design, is visible as an earthwork on aerial photographs taken in 1945. It lay in the back garden of a house on Peggotty Road. Small shelters of this type were intended for the use of a single family or household, and numerous examples are visible in residential areas such as this on low-level aerial photographs of Great Yarmouth 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.

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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.
A probable World War Two air raid shelter is visible as an earthwork on aerial photographs (S1), centred at approximately TG 5287 0595. It lay in the back garden of 12 Peggotty Road. It is visible as an earthwork mound, probably covering a semi-sunken structure such as an Anderson shelter. Its northern end is at least partially obscured by shadow. There is no evidence on more recent aerial photographs that the shelter now survives above ground and it was probably levelled soon after the end of the war.
S. Tremlett (NMP), 29 September 2005.

Associated Sources (1)

<S1> SNF57903 Vertical Aerial Photograph: RAF. 1945. RAF 106G/UK/726 5354-5 26-AUG-1945 (NMR).