NHER 43587 (Monument record) - Site of World War Two air raid shelter at Gas Distribution Station, Southtown

May 2006. Norfolk NMP.
A World War Two air raid shelter is visible as an earthwork and structure on aerial photographs (S1), centred at TG 5238 0573. It lay in what appears to have been a garden, probably belonging to a large house on Southtown Road, but could instead have been allotments. This location, together with its small size, suggests that it was a private shelter, intended for the use of a particular household. Most of the shelter is visible as a curved-profile earthwork mound, which probably covered a small semi-sunken or surface-level structure. A vertical structure at its south end appears to have been a façade; this was slightly taller and wider than the main body of the shelter, a feature typical of Anderson shelters. It is evident from modern aerial photographs, e.g. (S2), and Ordnance Survey maps that the site has since been resurfaced and the surrounding area built over. The shelter itself has presumably been levelled.
S. Tremlett (NMP), 8 May 2006.