NHER 43645 (Monument record) - Site of World War Two air raid shelters at 56 Albany Road and 83 Wolseley Road, Southtown

May 2006. Norfolk NMP.
Two probable air raid shelters dating to World War Two are visible as earthworks on aerial photographs (S1), at TG 5198 0680 and TG 5199 0678. They lay in the back gardens of 56 Albany Road and 83 Wolseley Road, Southtown. This location, together with their small size, suggests that they were private shelters, intended for the use of these particular households. Both are visible as an earthwork mound, which probably covered a small semi-sunken or surface-level structure. They may have been Anderson shelters, or a similar proprietary design. On the side of the mound nearest the associated house both appear to have had a straight, vertical façade, a feature typical of Anderson shelters. Further shelters may have lain in other, nearby gardens, such as that belonging to 89 Wolseley Road, but nothing was convincing or clear enough on the consulted aerial photographs to warrant mapping. Neither of the mapped shelters is visible on recent aerial photographs of the area, e.g. (S2), and they have presumably been levelled.
S. Tremlett (NMP), 10 May 2006.