NHER 43647 (Monument record) - Site of World War Two air raid shelters at 114 and 124 Wolseley Road, Southtown

May 2006. Norfolk NMP.
Two probable air raid shelters dating to World War Two are visible as earthworks and an associated structure on aerial photographs (S1), at TG 5189 0704 and TG 5190 0700. They lay in the back gardens of 114 and 124 Wolseley Road, Southtown. This location, together with their small size, suggests that they were private shelters, intended for the use of these particular households. Both are visible as earthwork mounds, each of which probably covered a small semi-sunken or surface-level structure. They may have been Anderson shelters, or a similar proprietary design. A small structural element at the east end of the shelter at Number 124 may have protected an entrance. Further shelters may have lain in other gardens nearby, such as that belonging to 120 Wolseley Road, but nothing was convincing or clear enough on the consulted aerial photographs to warrant mapping. Both of the mapped shelters appear to have been levelled by June 1947 (S2).
S. Tremlett (NMP), 11 May 2006.