NHER 43659 (Monument record) - Site of probable World War Two air raid shelters at 11 and 12 Audley Street

May 2006. Norfolk NMP.
Two probable air raid shelters dating to World War Two are visible as an earthwork and a structure on aerial photographs (S1), centred at TG 5278 0809. They lay in the front gardens of 11 and 12 Audley Street. This location, together with their small size, suggests that they were private shelters, intended for the use of these particular households. They may have been Anderson shelters, or similar proprietary designs. The shelter at Number 11 is visible as a small, rectangular, surface-level or semi-sunken structure, which is distinguished from a normal outbuilding by its apparently curved shape in profile. It may have been an Anderson shelter without its usual covering of earth, or with only a light covering. The shelter at Number 12 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 underlying structure probably had a curved shape in profile and may have been similar or even identical to the structure at Number 11. Neither is visible on more recent aerial photographs of the site, e.g. (S2), and they were presumably levelled in the post-war period.
S. Tremlett (NMP), 17 May 2006.