NHER 43683 (Monument record) - Site of probable World War Two air raid shelters at 5, 7 and 9 Sturdee Avenue

May 2006. Norfolk NMP.
Three probable air raid shelters dating to World War Two are visible as earthworks on aerial photographs (S1), centred at TG 5283 0957. They lay in the back gardens of 5, 7 and 9 Sturdee Avenue. This location, together with their small size, suggests that they were private shelters, intended for the use of these particular households. They are all visible as earthwork mounds, each of which probably covered a small semi-sunken or surface-level structure. Judging by the shape of the mounds, at least some of these underlying structures probably had a curved shape in profile. They may have been Anderson shelters, or similar proprietary designs. The shelter at Number 7 appears to have had a structural element revetting its northeast side. A pit or depression at the northwest end of the shelter at Number 5 probably marks the location of a sunken entrance. None of the shelters is visible on more recent aerial photographs of the site, e.g. (S2), and they have presumably been levelled.
S. Tremlett (NMP), 23 May 2006.