NHER 43597 (Monument record) - Site of World War Two air raid shelters at 21 Common Road and 11 Suffolk Road, Gorleston-on-Sea

April 2006. Norfolk NMP.
Two possible air raid shelters dating to World War Two are visible as earthworks on aerial photographs (S1), at TG 5227 0560 and TG 5227 0556. They lay in the back gardens of 21 Common Road and 11 Suffolk 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 probably covered small semi-sunken or surface-level structures, which appear to have been curved in section. They may have been Anderson shelters, or similar proprietary designs. At the same time, their interpretation is not certain, and they may have simply been outbuildings, or garden trees or bushes. 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.