NHER 27693 (Monument record) - Sites of World War Two air raid shelters

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Summary

Five small World War Two air raid shelters, at least some of which were probably Anderson shelters or a similar proprietary design, are visible as earthworks and structures on aerial photographs taken in 1945. They lay in close proximity to each other, in the back gardens of houses on Copperfield Avenue. Small shelters like these were intended for the use of a single family or household, and numerous examples are visible in residential areas such as this on low level aerial photographs of the town taken at the end of the war. There is no evidence on more recent aerial photographs that any remnant of those described here now survives above ground.

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None recorded

Location

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

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September 2005. Norfolk NMP.
Five probable World War Two air raid shelters are visible as earthworks and structures on aerial photographs (S1), centred around TG 5281 0612. The shelters lay in close proximity to each other, in the back gardens of 4, 8, 10, 16 and 20 Copperfield Avenue. They are all visible as earthwork mounds, probably covering semi sunken structures such as Anderson shelters. One of the shelters (at TG 5282 0614) appears to have had a revetment or similar structure at its eastern end. Two others (at TG 5281 0613 and TG 5281 0611) had some kind of structural element at what were presumably their entrances. 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), 29 September 2005.

Associated Sources (1)

<S1> SNF57903 Vertical Aerial Photograph: RAF. 1945. RAF 106G/UK/726 5354-5 26-AUG-1945 (NMR).