NHER 43652 (Monument record) - Site of World War Two air raid shelter at 42 Jury Street

May 2006. Norfolk NMP.
A probable air raid shelter dating to World War Two is visible as an earthwork on aerial photographs (S1), centred at TG 5275 0796. It lay in the front garden of 42 Jury Street. 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 an earthwork mound, which probably covered a small semi-sunken or surface-level structure. Judging by the shape of the mound, the underlying structure probably had a curved shape in profile, with flat, vertical façades at each end. It may have been an Anderson shelter, or a similar proprietary design. A structural element at the east end of the mound probably marks the location of an entrance. The shelter is not visible on more recent aerial photographs of the site, e.g. (S2), and has presumably been levelled.
S. Tremlett (NMP), 17 May 2006.