NHER 43658 (Monument record) - Site of possible World War Two air raid shelter at 4 Tottenham Street

May 2006. Norfolk NMP.
A possible air raid shelter dating to World War Two is visible as an earthwork on aerial photographs (S1), centred at TG 5276 0805. It lay in the front garden of 4 Tottenham Street. 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 vegetation-covered earthwork mound, which in turn probably covered a small semi-sunken or surface-level structure. Judging by the shape of the mound, the underlying structure may have had a curved shape in profile. It could have been an Anderson shelter, or a similar proprietary design. At the same time, the interpretation of the site is not certain, and it could instead merely have been garden vegetation. It is not visible on more recent aerial photographs of the site, e.g. (S2), and (if it was an earthwork) was presumably levelled in the post-war period.
S. Tremlett (NMP), 17 May 2006.