Summary

Ammunition Shelter (destroyed)

Full description

Contemporary records state, “Storehouse for Explosives. Gravel pits, Princes Road”. <1> Aerial photographs from June 1946 show a large gravel pit to the S of Princes Road, E of Longstomps Avenue.

The “storehouse for explosives”, or ammunition shelter, can be most clearly seen on an oblique aerial photograph taken from a height of 1000 feet in March 1949. It was, typically, a small Nissen-type hut with brick end walls, standing on the gravel pit land just a few yards S of Princes Road. The entrance can be seen in the E end wall. <2> <3>

The area of the gravel pits is now the John Sherman Playing Field.

<1> unknown, 1968, War Time Contraventions 1968, Chelmsford (LIST). SEX31436.

<2> RAF, 1946, 106G-UK 1565-4416, June 1946 (AP). SEX65517.

<3> RAF, 1949, 540-173-0261, 1000 feet oblique, Mar 1949 (AP). SEX65530.

Monument Types

• AMMUNITION SHELTER (WWII, Modern - 1939 AD to 1945 AD)

Associated Events

• Visit by Fred Nash - Mar 2005 (Ref: Nash CHL Mar 2005)

Protected Status

• Historic Environment Character Area: Chelmsford 2
• Historic Environment Character Zone: Chelmsford 2.2

Sources and further reading

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