NHER 27495 (Monument record) - Site of World War Two air raid shelter
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Summary
Protected Status/Designation
- None recorded
Location
| Map sheet | TG50NW |
|---|---|
| Civil Parish | GREAT YARMOUTH, GREAT YARMOUTH, NORFOLK |
Map
Full Description
July 2005. Norfolk NMP.
A World War Two air raid shelter is visible as a surface or possibly semi-sunken structure on aerial photographs (S1), centred at approximately TG 5197 0832. It is probably a covered trench shelter, provided for the staff and pupils of the adjacent school (shown on S2), and perhaps similar in design to proposals for industrial shelters (S3). It has at least one entrance, at its southeast corner, which is protected by a blast wall. It almost certainly has further entrances; a track leading to a projection to the south of the northeast corner (at TG 5198 0832) probably marks the location of another. The site has been built over since the end of the war.
S. Tremlett (NMP), 20 July 2005.
Associated Sources (3)
- <S1> SNF56562 Vertical Aerial Photograph: RAF. 1945. RAF 106G/UK/726 5059-60 26-AUG-1945 (NMR).
- <S2> SNF56414 Map: Ordnance Survey. 1902-7. Ordnance Survey second edition 25" (1902-7) Sheet LXVI. 15.
- <S3> SNF56564 Serial: Dobinson, C.S.. 2000. Twentieth Century Fortifications in England. Volume VIII. Civil Defence in WWII.. Fig 30.
Site and Feature Types and Periods (2)
Object Types (0)
Related NHER Records (0)
Record last edited
Dec 7 2010 11:45AM