NHER 43682 (Monument record) - Site of probable World War Two air raid shelters at 25 and 29 Sturdee Avenue

May 2006. Norfolk NMP.
Two probable air raid shelters dating to World War Two are visible as structures on aerial photographs (S1), centred at TG 5287 0962. They lay in the back gardens of 25 and 29 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 visible as small, rectangular, surface-level or semi-sunken structures, which are distinguished from ordinary outbuildings by their curved shape in profile. They may have been Anderson shelters without their usual covering of earth, or similar proprietary designs. The shelter at Number 25 had flat, vertical facades at both ends, which were wider and higher than the main body of the shelter; this is a characteristic typical of Anderson shelters. Neither of the shelters is visible on more recent aerial photographs of the site, e.g. (S2), and they have presumably been demolished or otherwise removed. On these photographs, the site of the shelter at Number 25 appears to be occupied by a shed or similar outbuilding.
S. Tremlett (NMP), 23 May 2006.