NHER 27649 (Monument record) - Site 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 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 Harbord Crescent and Peggotty Road. 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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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 taken in 1945 (S1) and (S2), centred around TG 5297 0596. The shelters lay in close proximity to each other, in the back gardens of 50, 62 and 66 Harbord Crescent and 42 and 44 Peggotty Road. They are all visible as earthwork mounds, probably covering semi-sunken structures such as Anderson shelters. The westernmost shelter (at TG 5295 0595, 42 Peggotty Road) had a sunken entrance. The shelter at 50 Harbord Crescent (TG 5297 0598), which is large enough to be visible on aerial photographs taken in July 1944 (S3), possibly had an entrance at the southern end of its east side. 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 (3)

<S1> SNF57903 Vertical Aerial Photograph: RAF. 1945. RAF 106G/UK/726 5354-5 26-AUG-1945 (NMR).
<S2> SNF57691 Vertical Aerial Photograph: RAF. 1945. RAF 106G/UK/778 6020-1 08-SEP-1945 (NMR).
<S3> SNF57636 Vertical Aerial Photograph: RAF. 1944. RAF 106G/LA/21 3029-30 04-JUL-1944 (NMR).