NHER 43676 (Monument record) - Site of possible World War Two air raid shelter at 89 Salisbury Road

May 2006. Norfolk NMP.
A possible air raid shelter dating to World War Two is visible as an earthwork on aerial photographs (S1), centred at TG 5287 0903. Due to shadows, the site is barely visible on the consulted aerial photographs, and the mapped feature could instead be vegetation or an outbuilding. What is visible appears to be a roughly square, earthwork mound. This is likely to have covered a small semi-sunken or surface-level structure, which, judging by the shape of the mound, probably had a curved shape in profile and a flat, vertical façade at its north end. These characteristics suggest that is probably was an air raid shelter, and it may have been an Anderson shelter or a similar proprietary design. Given its location in the back garden of 89 Salisbury Road, and if its interpretation as an air raid shelter is correct, it was almost certainly a private shelter, intended for the use of this particular household. It is not visible on more recent aerial photographs of the site, see (S2), and was presumably levelled after the war.
S. Tremlett (NMP), 18 May 2006.