NHER 43626 (Monument record) - Site of World War Two air raid shelter at 112 Lichfield Road, Southtown

May 2006. Norfolk NMP.
A probable air raid shelter dating to World War Two is visible as an earthwork on aerial photographs (S1), centred at TG 5204 0685. It lay in the back garden of 112 Lichfield Road, Southtown. This location, together with its small size, suggests that it was a private shelter, intended for the use of this particular household. It may have been an Anderson shelter, or a similar proprietary design. The earthwork mound probably covered a semi-sunken or surface-level structure; the latter almost certainly had a curved profile in shape. Indentations and small holes on either side of the west end of the shelter may mark ventilation shafts or an entrance. The shelter is not visible on more recent aerial photographs of the site, e.g. (S2), and has presumably been levelled.
S. Tremlett (NMP), 9 May 2006.