NHER 43679 (Monument record) - Site of probable World War Two air raid shelters at 9, 11 and 13 Beresford Road

May 2006. Norfolk NMP.
Three probable air raid shelters dating to World War Two are visible as earthworks and a structure on aerial photographs (S1), centred at TG 5269 0943. They lay in the back gardens of 9, 11 and 13 Beresford Road. This location, together with their small size, suggests that they were private shelters, intended for the use of a particular household. They may have been Anderson shelters, or similar proprietary designs. The shelters at Numbers 9 and 11 are both visible as earthwork mounds, each of which probably covered a small semi-sunken or surface-level structure. A probable entrance is evident at the northwest corner of the mound at Number 9. The shelter at Number 13 is visible as a small, rectangular, surface-level or semi-sunken structure, which is distinguished from an ordinary outbuilding by its curved shape in profile. It may have been an Anderson shelter without its usual covering of earth. Further shelters may have lain in other gardens nearby, such as that belonging to Number 3 Beresford Road, but nothing was convincing or clear enough on the consulted aerial photographs to warrant mapping. None of the mapped shelters is visible on more recent aerial photographs of the site, for example (S2), and they have presumably been levelled. The site of the shelter at Number 11 appears to be occupied by a garage or similar outbuilding.
S. Tremlett (NMP), 22 May 2006.