NHER 27690 (Monument record) - Site of World War Two air raid shelters

September 2005. Norfolk NMP.
A group of probable air raid shelters dating to World War Two is visible as earthworks on aerial photographs taken in 1945 (S1), centred around TG 5285 0625. They lay in close proximity to each other, in what appears to have been a communal front garden to a block of houses on Dickens Avenue (since rebuilt as numbers 5 to 16). Two of the shelters are visible as earthwork mounds, probably covering semi-sunken structures such as Anderson shelters. The easternmost mound (at TG 5287 0625) was very low and may not have been a shelter at all. The western mound (at TG 5286 0625) appears to have had a sunken entrance protected by a low earthwork blast wall. Further shelters probably existed to the west (at TG 5284 0625) but these are obscured by shadows on the consulted aerial photographs and only their approximate extent could be mapped. 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), 30 September 2005.