NHER 43619 (Monument record) - Site of World War Two air raid shelter at 24 Albany Road, Southtown

May 2006. Norfolk NMP.
A probable air raid shelter dating to World War Two is visible as an extant structure on aerial photographs (S1), centred at TG 5199 0672. It lay in the back garden of 24 Albany 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 is visible as a bare or only lightly covered, surface-level or semi-sunken rectangular structure, with a curved shape in profile and vertical facades at each end (the west and east sides) which were taller and wider than the main body of the shelter. These features are typical of Anderson shelters, of which this may have been one but without the usual covering of earth. The shelter is not visible on more recent aerial photographs of the site, e.g. (S2), and was presumably levelled in the post-war period.
S. Tremlett (NMP), 10 May 2006.