NHER 43480 (Monument record) - Site of World War Two air raid shelter at Great Yarmouth College and Edward Worlledge Middle School, Southtown

May 2006. Norfolk NMP.
A World War Two air raid shelter is visible as an extant building or structure on aerial photographs (S1)-(S2), centred at TG 5208 0660. Its large size and location adjacent to a school (now part of Great Yarmouth College) indicate that this was a communal shelter. It was presumably built primarily for the use of pupils and teachers at the school, but it may also have been used by members of the public, such as local residents. It appears to have been a surface-level shelter, with two entrances on its east side (facing the school buildings), each protected by a blast wall. This layout is comparable to that of the air raid shelter in the grounds of a second school located 1.3km to the northeast, within Great Yarmouth itself (NHER 27415). The shelter was levelled or otherwise removed in the post-war period and no trace of it is visible on recent aerial photographs of the site, e.g. (S3).
S. Tremlett (NMP), 10 May 2006.