NHER 27500 (Monument record) - Site of World War Two air raid shelter
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Summary
Protected Status/Designation
- None recorded
Location
| Map sheet | TG51SW |
|---|---|
| Civil Parish | CAISTER ON SEA, GREAT YARMOUTH, NORFOLK |
Map
Full Description
July 2005. Norfolk NMP.
A World War Two air raid shelter is visible on contemporary aerial photographs (S1 to S3). This shelter was located at TG 5235 1192 on the eastern side of High Street. The shelter had a barrel type roof with a flat roofed entrance area. This appears to have been a small public surface shelter sited to serve the properties on this section of High Street. This may have been a local air raid shelter design and others of this type were present in Caister village (NHER 27482, 27487, 27501 and 27507). This example differs slightly in that it has only a single barrel roof rather than the multiple roofs seen on the other shelters at Caister. This shelter on High Street appears to have been constructed after February 1941 (S4) and had been demolished by July 1946 (S5).
J. Albone (NMP), 20 July 2005.
Associated Sources (5)
- <S1> SNF56654 Vertical Aerial Photograph: RAF. 1944. RAF 106G/LA/14 1007-1008 13-MAY-1944 (NMR).
- <S2> SNF56660 Vertical Aerial Photograph: RAF. 1945. RAF 106G/UK/726 5260-5261 26-AUG-1945 (NMR).
- <S3> SNF56657 Vertical Aerial Photograph: RAF. 1945. RAF 106G/UK/832 3183-3184 23-SEP-1945 (NHER TG 5111A / TG 5212A).
- <S4> SNF56661 Vertical Aerial Photograph: RAF. 1941. RAF 268F/BR172 33-34 10-FEB-1941 (NMR).
- <S5> SNF56659 Vertical Aerial Photograph: RAF. 1946. RAF 106G/UK/1634 5037-5038 09-JUL-1946 (NHER TG 5212B-C).
Site and Feature Types and Periods (1)
Object Types (0)
Related NHER Records (0)
Record last edited
Jan 4 2006 4:33PM