NHER 42511 (Monument record) - Site of World War Two air raid shelter at 6 to 7 St Luke's Terrace, Cobholm Island

May 2006. Norfolk NMP.
An air raid shelter dating to World War Two is visible as an earthwork on aerial photographs (S1), centred at TG 5172 0759. It was located on a cleared bomb site: the foundations of buildings are visible on the aerial photographs and the houses themselves are depicted on the Ordnance Survey 2nd edition 25 inch map (S2). This means that although its small size and location in a residential area suggest that it was a private shelter, intended for the use of a particular household, it might instead have been a small communal shelter or one used by the civil authorities, e.g. as an ARP (Air Raid Precautions) post. It is visible as an earthwork mound, which probably covered a small semi-sunken or surface-level structure. Judging by the shape of the mound, the latter probably had a curved shape in profile, with a flat, vertical façade at its northeast end. It may have been an Anderson shelter, or a similar proprietary design. More recent aerial photographs, e.g. (S3), and modern Ordnance Survey maps demonstrate that the area has been redeveloped in the post-war period. There is no evidence that any element of the shelter now survives above ground.
S. Tremlett (NMP), 16 May 2006.