NHER 27559 (Monument record) - Sites of World War Two air raid shelters

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Summary

At least eight structures and earthworks visible on 1940s aerial photographs are almost certainly small World War Two domestic air raid shelters, probably Anderson shelters. They lay in close proximity to each other, in the back gardens of numbers 2, 4, 6, 8, 18, 20, 30 and 34 Madden Avenue. Small shelters such as these were intended for the use of a single family or household. There is no evidence on more recent aerial photographs that any remnant of the eight described here now survives above ground.

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Location

Map sheet	TG50NW
Civil Parish	GREAT YARMOUTH, GREAT YARMOUTH, NORFOLK

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August 2005. Norfolk NMP.
Eight probable World War Two air raid shelters are visible as earthworks (probably earth covered structures) and bare structures on aerial photographs (S1). The shelters lay in close proximity to each other, in the gardens of houses on Madden Avenue, between approximately TG 5279 0985 and TG 5289 0985. They are all likely to have been Anderson shelters or a similar proprietary design. There is no evidence on more recent aerial photographs or modern maps that any of the shelters now survive above ground and they were probably levelled soon after the end of the war.
S. Tremlett (NMP), 5 August 2005.

Associated Sources (1)

<S1> SNF57029 Vertical Aerial Photograph: RAF. 1945. RAF 106G/UK/726 5152-3 26-AUG-1945 (NMR).

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Record last edited

Dec 7 2010 12:16PM