NHER 43650 (Monument record) - Site of World War Two air raid shelters at 66 and 67 Anson Road, Southtown

May 2006. Norfolk NMP.
Two probable air raid shelters dating to World War Two are visible as earthworks on aerial photographs (S1), centred at TG 5187 0691. They lay in the back gardens of 66 and 67 Anson 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 earthwork mounds, each of which probably covered a small semi-sunken or surface-level structure. They may have been Anderson shelters, or a similar proprietary design. The curved profile of the mound at Number 67 presumably reflects the shape of the underlying structure. The shelter at Number 66 (the northwest corner of which is obscured on the consulted aerial photographs by a tree) had a narrow bank of earth in front of it; this was probably a blast wall protecting the entrance. Neither of the shelters is visible on recent aerial photographs of the area, e.g. (S2), and they have presumably been levelled.
S. Tremlett (NMP), 11 May 2006.