| Name: | Ammunition Shelter (destroyed), Melbourne Park, Chelmsford |
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| SMR Number: | 20970 |
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| Type of record: | Monument |
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| Grid Reference: | TL 687 083 |
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| Map Sheet: | TL60NE |
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| Parish: | CHELMSFORD, CHELMSFORD, ESSEX |
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Summary
Ammunition Shelter (destroyed)
Full description
Contemporary records state, “Storehouse for explosives. Site No. 1., Melbourne Park Estate”. <1> Melbourne Farm, and Park, lay to the E of Chignall Road, N of the present Melbourne Avenue. A “storehouse for explosives” or ammunition shelter, would have held arms and ammunition for the local Home Guard manning the road barrier (and possibly a spigot mortar) nearby (see SMR 20969). Nothing now survives as the are has been re-developed to housing.
<1> unknown, 1968, War Time Contraventions 1968, Chelmsford (LIST). SEX31436.
Monument Types
- AMMUNITION SHELTER (WWII, Modern - 1939 AD to 1945 AD)
Associated Events
- Visit by Fred Nash - June 2005 (Ref: Nash CHL Jun 2005)
Protected Status
- Historic Environment Character Zone: Chelmsford 2.20
- Historic Environment Character Area: Chelmsford 2
Sources and further reading
| <1> | LIST: unknown. 1968. War Time Contraventions 1968. Chelmsford. |
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