NHER 43602 (Monument record) - Site of World War Two air raid shelters at 19 Burgh Road and 130 Beccles Road, Gorleston-on-Sea

April 2006. Norfolk NMP.
Two probable air raid shelters dating to World War Two are visible as earthworks on aerial photographs (S1), at TG 5225 0516 and TG 5227 0512. They lay in the back gardens of 19 Burgh Road and 130 Beccles Road, Gorleston-on-Sea. This location, together with their small size, suggests that they were private shelters, intended for the use of these particular households. The earthwork mounds, which are themselves covered by vegetation, probably covered small semi-sunken or surface-level structures. They may have been Anderson shelters, or similar proprietary designs. Further shelters may have existed in other nearby gardens but nothing is clear enough on the consulted aerial photographs to warrant mapping. At the same time, the interpretation of the mapped features is not certain; the shelter at 19 Burgh Road may have simply been an outbuilding, while that at 130 Beccles Road could have been a tree or bush. Neither is visible on recent aerial photographs of the area, e.g. (S2), and they have presumably been levelled.
S. Tremlett (NMP), 28 April 2006.