NHER 43377 (Monument record) - Site of World War Two surface-level air raid shelters behind houses on Mariners' Road

May 2006. Norfolk NMP.
Three World War Two air raid shelters are visible as extant structures on aerial photographs (S1), centred at TG 5258 0671. Their location in a yard or garden behind houses on Mariners’ Road suggests that they were provided for local residents. The small, rectangular, surface-level structures are comparable to other shelters mapped elsewhere at Great Yarmouth (e.g. NHER 27592 280m to the northeast). The extent to which the shelters were connected is not clear. Their entrances probably lay off the central ‘lane’ between them, the southwest side of which appears to have been protected by an additional blast wall. None of the shelters are visible on recent aerial photographs of the area, e.g. (S2), and they have presumably been levelled or otherwise removed.
S. Tremlett (NMP), 9 May 2006.