NHER 43646 (Monument) - Site of World War Two air raid shelters at 133 Lichfield Road, Southtown

May 2006. Norfolk NMP.
A probable air raid shelter dating to World War Two is visible as a structure on aerial photographs (S1), centred at TG 5197 0704. It lay in the back garden of 133 Lichfield Road, Southtown. This location, together with its small size, suggests that it was a private shelter, intended for the use of this particular household. It is visible as a small, rectangular, surface-level or semi-sunken structure, which is distinguished from a normal outbuilding by its curved shape in profile. It may have been an Anderson shelter without its usual covering of earth (or only a thin covering of material), or a similar proprietary design. Further shelters may have lain in other gardens nearby, but nothing was convincing or clear enough on the consulted aerial photographs to warrant mapping. The mapped shelter is not visible on recent aerial photographs of the area, e.g. (S2), and presumably has been demolished or otherwise removed.
S. Tremlett (NMP), 11 May 2006.