NHER 27692 (Monument record) - Site of World War Two air raid shelters

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Summary

Two small World War Two air raid shelters, which could have been Anderson shelters or a similar design, are visible as earthworks on aerial photographs taken in 1945. They lay in close proximity to each other, in the gardens of houses on Admiralty 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 two described here now survives above ground.

Protected Status/Designation

  • None recorded

Location

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

Map

September 2005. Norfolk NMP.
Two probable World War Two air raid shelters are visible as earthworks on aerial photographs taken in 1945 (S1), centred around TG 5279 0621. They lay in close proximity to each other, in the gardens of 89 and 94 Admiralty Road. They are both visible as earthwork mounds, probably covering semi-sunken structures such as Anderson shelters. There is no evidence on more recent aerial photographs that either of the shelters now survives above ground and they were probably levelled soon after the end of the war.
S. Tremlett (NMP), 30 September 2005.

  • <S1> Vertical Aerial Photograph: RAF. 1945. RAF 106G/UK/726 5355-6 26-AUG-1945 (NMR).

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Record last edited

Oct 5 2012 2:05PM

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