NHER 43520 (Monument record) - Site of a probable World War Two air raid shelter at 19 Lawn Avenue

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 5220 0875. It lay in the back garden of 91 Lawn Avenue. This location, together with its small size, suggests that it was a private shelter, intended for the use of this particular household. It may have been an Anderson shelter, or a similar proprietary design. 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 and the shadow cast by it, the underlying structure probably had a curved shape in profile. Its western end is obscured by vegetation on the consulted aerial photographs and therefore its full extent has not been mapped. It is not visible on more recent aerial photographs of the site, for example (S2), and was presumably levelled in the post-war period.
S. Tremlett (NMP), 17 May 2006.