NHER 27671 (Monument record) - Sites of World War Two air raid shelters

September 2005. Norfolk NMP.
Five World War Two air raid shelters are visible as earthworks and structures on aerial photographs (S1), centred around TG 5305 0594. The shelters lay in close proximity to each other, in the gardens of 5, 8, 12, 13 and 18 South Beach Parade. Two of the shelters (at TG 5306 0596 and TG 5305 0595) are visible as earthwork mounds, and these are probably covered, semi-sunken structures such as Anderson shelters. The remaining shelters are uncovered or only lightly covered, and they appear to be surface shelters. The structure at TG 5305 0593 may be another Anderson shelter; the structure at TG 5305 0599 can be identified as a shelter only tentatively. There is no evidence on more recent aerial photographs that any of the shelters now survives above ground and they were probably levelled soon after the end of the war.
S. Tremlett (NMP), 28 September 2005.