NHER 43661 (Monument record) - Site of a probable World War Two air raid shelter at 39 Alderson Road

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 5226 0850. It lay in the back garden of 39 Alderson Road. 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 small, rectangular, surface-level or semi-sunken structure, which is distinguished from a normal outbuilding by its apparently curved shape in profile. It may have been an Anderson shelter without its usual covering of earth, or with only a light covering. Further shelters may have lain in other gardens nearby, but nothing was convincing or clear enough on the consulted aerial photographs to warrant mapping. The mapped shelter is not visible on more recent aerial photographs of the site, for example (S2), and was presumably demolished or otherwise removed at some time after the end of the war.
S. Tremlett (NMP), 17 May 2006.