NHER 43565 (Monument record) - Site of probable World War Two air raid shelters at 6 and 8 Hammond Road and 13 Moat Road

April 2006. Norfolk NMP.
Three probable air raid shelters, dating to World War Two, are visible as earthworks and structures on aerial photographs (S1), centred at TG 5254 0843. They lay in the gardens of 6 and 8 Hammond Road (the two western shelters) and 13 Moat Road (the easternmost shelter). This location, together with their small size, suggests that they were private shelters, each intended for the use of a particular household. Each of the earthwork mounds presumably covered a structure, and some may have been Anderson shelters or similar proprietary designs. The westernmost shelter (in the garden of 6 Hammond Road) appears to have a small pad or plinth on top of its south end, probably made of concrete or masonry. Its north end is flanked by two small structures or pillars of material, which may have protected an entrance. The shelter to its east (in the garden of 8 Hammond Road) may have been a bare structure rather than an earthwork. It appears to have a blast wall or bank at its north end, which presumably protected its entrance. The easternmost earthwork (in the garden of 13 Moat Road) is partially obscured by shadows on the consulted aerial photographs, and consequently its identification as a shelter is more uncertain. Further shelters may have existed in other nearby gardens, such as what is now 7 Belvidere Road, but nothing is clear enough on the consulted aerial photographs to warrant mapping. Recent aerial photographs of the area, for example (S2), demonstrate that the shelters have almost certainly now been levelled.
S. Tremlett (NMP), 20 April 2006.