NHER 43621 (Monument record) - Site of possible World War Two air raid shelter at 132a Gordon Road, Southtown
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Summary
Protected Status/Designation
- None recorded
Location
| Map sheet | TG50NW |
|---|---|
| Civil Parish | GREAT YARMOUTH, GREAT YARMOUTH, NORFOLK |
Map
Full Description
May 2006. Norfolk NMP.
A possible air raid shelter dating to World War Two is visible as an earthwork on aerial photographs (S1)-(S2), centred at TG 5219 0669. It lay in a garden, adjacent to a large building marked on the Ordnance Survey 1st edition 6 inch map (S3) as a school. This enclosed location suggests that it was a private shelter, while its small size indicates that it could only have been used by a small group of people, perhaps a particular family or household. The earthwork mound, which appears to have had a curved or parabolic shape in profile, probably covered a semi-sunken or surface-level structure. It may have been an Anderson shelter, or a similar proprietary design. At the same time, its interpretation as an air raid shelter is not certain; for example, it could instead have been a bank or hedge. The shelter is not visible on more recent aerial photographs of the site, e.g. (S4), and has presumably been levelled.
S. Tremlett (NMP), 10 May 2006.
Associated Sources (4)
- <S1> SNF61659 Vertical Aerial Photograph: RAF. 1944. RAF HLA/698 4062-3 08-APR-1944 (NMR).
- <S2> SNF63214 Vertical Aerial Photograph: RAF. 1945. RAF 106G/UK/726 5090-1 26-AUG-1945 (NMR).
- <S3> SNF53293 Map: Ordnance Survey. 1884-1891. Ordnance Survey Map. Six inches to the mile. First Edition. 1:10,560.
- <S4> SNF63211 Vertical Aerial Photograph: Ordnance Survey. 1989. OS/89046 205-6 18-MAR-1989.
Site and Feature Types and Periods (2)
Object Types (0)
Related NHER Records (0)
Record last edited
Dec 8 2010 11:29AM