NHER 43584 (Monument record) - Site of World War Two air raid shelters at 56, 60 and 63 Burnt Lane, and land behind Number 54, Gorleston-on-Sea

April 2006. Norfolk NMP.
Five probable air raid shelters dating to World War Two are visible as earthworks and structures on aerial photographs (S1), between TG 5243 0527 and TG 5245 0530. Three lay in the back gardens of 56, 60 and 63 Burnt Lane; two lay on land behind Number 54, to the southeast of a house that has since been demolished. This location, together with their small size, suggests that they were private shelters, intended for the use of a particular household. Some may have been Anderson shelters, or similar proprietary designs. Most are visible as earthwork mounds, which presumably covered small surface or semi-sunken structures. The shelter at Number 60 was a small rectangular structure, which can be distinguished from normal outbuildings by its apparently curved shape in profile. This may have been an Anderson shelter without its usual covering of earth. The shelters are not visible on recent aerial photographs of the area, for example (S2), and have almost certainly been levelled or otherwise removed.
S. Tremlett (NMP), 24 April 2006.