NHER 43596 (Monument record) - Site of World War Two air raid shelters at 3 and 5 Manor 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), centred at TG 5233 0551. They lay in the back gardens of 3 and 5 Manor 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. An entrance is visible at the south end of the shelter at Number 3. Further shelters may have existed in other nearby gardens, such as that belonging to Number 1 immediately to the east, but nothing is clear enough on the consulted aerial photographs to warrant mapping. Neither of the mapped shelters is visible on recent aerial photographs of the area, e.g. (S2), and they have presumably been levelled.
S. Tremlett (NMP), 28 April 2006.