FORMER AIR RAID SHELTER TO REAR OF NUMBERS 28 AND 30
List Entry Summary
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
Name: FORMER AIR RAID SHELTER TO REAR OF NUMBERS 28 AND 30
List entry Number: 1103483
Location
FORMER AIR RAID SHELTER TO REAR OF NUMBERS 28 AND 30, 28 AND 30, YARRA ROAD
The building may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
County:
District: North East Lincolnshire
District Type: Unitary Authority
Parish:
National Park: Not applicable to this List entry.
Grade: II
Date first listed: 20-Feb-1989
Date of most recent amendment: Not applicable to this List entry.
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Legacy System: LBS
UID: 164472
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History
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Details
TA 3008 NE CLEETHORPES YARRA ROAD
(north side, off)
8/26 Former air-raid
shelter to rear of
Nos 28 and 30
II
Air-raid shelter, now garage. 1916 for Joseph Forrester. Concrete, incorporating
section of brick garden walls on north and south sides; turf-covered steel-
reinforced concrete roof. Rectangular on plan, approximately 4 metres by 5 metres;
single room incorporating two entrance lobbies or cubicles. Blocked narrow
original door in north wall. Inserted C20 garage door in west wall. North and
south sides each have a pair of ornate terracotta ventilator grilles. Low segmental-
arched roof. Interior: Basket-arched tunnel-vaulted room with a blast-proof
entrance lobby in the north-east corner, both approximately 1 metre square on plan,
with the lower sections of their curved walls removed; the north-east lobby with
brick blocking to the former door in the north wall. All walls are approximately.
0.5 metre thick. Built as a private shelter against Zeppelin bombs after a series
of raids on the town in April 1916, the most serious of which killed 31 soldiers
billeted in a nearby chapel. Forrester, a borough councillor and chemist, achieved
fame for his Forrester's Ferric Food tonic, manufactured at his nearby shop fronting
onto Alexandra Road (now demolished). M Hart, Cleethorpes and the Meggies, 1981,
pp 29-30; C Ekberg, The Book of Cleethorpes, 1986 p 96.
Listing NGR: TA3069208677
Selected Sources
Books and journals
Ekberg, C, The Book of Cleethorpes, (1986), 96
Hart, M, Cleethorpes and the Meggies, (1981), 29-30
National Grid Reference: TA 30692 08677
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