NHER 43675 (Monument record) - Site of probable World War Two air raid shelter at 31 North River Road
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Summary
Protected Status/Designation
- None recorded
Location
| Map sheet | TG50NW |
|---|---|
| Civil Parish | GREAT YARMOUTH, GREAT YARMOUTH, NORFOLK |
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Full Description
May 2006. Norfolk NMP.
A probable air raid shelter dating to World War Two is visible as an earthwork and structure on 1940s aerial photographs (S1), centred at TG 5202 0844. It lay in a garden or yard behind 31 North River 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; a mound of earth at its west end may be the remains of its former covering. It is not visible on more recent aerial photographs of the site, see (S2), and was presumably demolished or otherwise removed after the end of the war.
S. Tremlett (NMP), 18 May 2006.
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Record last edited
Dec 8 2010 11:32AM