NHER 52101 (Monument record) - Two probable World War Two air raid shelters

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Summary

Two probable air raid shelters dating to World War Two are visible as structures with curved roofs, on 1940s aerial photographs. Their small size and location within enclosed gardens suggest that they were private shelters, each intended for the use of a single family or household. They may have been Anderson shelters, or similar proprietary designs. There is no evidence on aerial photographs taken more recently that any part of the shelters now survive above ground.

Protected Status/Designation

  • None recorded

Location

Map sheet TG20NE
Civil Parish THORPE ST ANDREW, BROADLAND, NORFOLK

Map

May 2009. Norfolk NMP.
Two probable air raid shelters dating to World War Two are visible as earthworks on aerial photographs (S1), at TG 2635 0877 and TG 2634 0841. They lay in the back gardens off Yarmouth Road and Stanmore Road. This location, together with their small size, suggests that they were private shelters, intended for the use of these particular households. Both are visible as bare or only lightly covered rectangular structures with a curved shape in profile; these may have been Anderson shelters without their usual covering of earth. Further shelters may have lain in other, nearby gardens, but nothing was convincing or clear enough on the consulted aerial photographs to warrant mapping. Neither of the mapped shelters is visible on recent aerial photographs of the area, e.g. (S2), and they have presumably been levelled.
E. Bales (NMP), 7 May 2009.

  • <S1> Vertical Aerial Photograph: RAF. 1945. RAF 106G/UK/789 6020-21 07-SEP-1945 (NMR).
  • <S2> Vertical Aerial Photograph: BKS. 1988. BKS 2829-30 07-AUG -1988 (NCC 9668-9).

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Record last edited

Oct 18 2010 1:49PM

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