NHER 27369 (Monument record) - World War Two pillbox

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Summary

A World War Two Type 24 pillbox is visible as a structure on aerial photographs. It is one of many anti invasion defences to have been identified in the area. Later aerial photographs indicate that it still survived as standing structure in 1979.

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Map sheet	TG51NW
Civil Parish	HEMSBY, GREAT YARMOUTH, NORFOLK

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May 2005. Norfolk NMP.
A World War Two pillbox is visible as an extant structure on aerial photographs (S1) to (S3), centred at TG 5020 1755. It is one of several anti invasion defences to have been identified in the area, part of the 'coastal crust' that characterised this stretch of coastline during World War Two. Its plan suggests that it is a Type 24 pillbox, and it is listed as such in a gazetteer of World War Two fixed defences (S4). It may just be visible on aerial photographs taken in May 1944 (S5); on later photographs (S2), (S3) and (S6) a stripe of camouflage paint or net is visible across the roof, presumably designed to disguise the structure as part of the hedge. It is still visible as a surviving structure on aerial photographs taken in 1979 (S7); it is obscured by vegetation on more recent photographs, but is perhaps just visible on an oblique aerial photograph taken in 2002 (S8).
S. Tremlett (NMP), 17 May 2005.

Associated Sources (8)

<S1> SNF56133 Vertical Aerial Photograph: RAF. 1952. RAF 540/705 5101-2 09-APR-1952 (NMR).
<S2> SNF56134 Oblique Aerial Photograph: RAF. 1950. NMR TG 5017/13 (RAF 30056 540/303 PFFO-0283) 05-APR-1950.
<S3> SNF56135 Oblique Aerial Photograph: RAF. 1950. NMR TG 5017/16 (RAF 30056 540/303 SFFO-0283) 05-APR-1950.
<S4> SNF52091 Monograph: Bird, C.. 1999. Silent sentinels: the story of Norfolk's fixed defences during the twentieth century..
<S5> SNF56136 Vertical Aerial Photograph: RAF. 1944. RAF 106G/LA/17 3009-10 28-MAY-1944 (NMR).
<S6> SNF56141 Oblique Aerial Photograph: RAF. 1950. NMR TG 4917/7 (RAF 30056 540/303 SFFO-0275) 05-APR-1950.
<S7> SNF56138 Vertical Aerial Photograph: Ordnance Survey. 1979. OS/79019 014-5 14-APR-1979 (NMR).
<S8> SNF56139 Oblique Aerial Photograph: NMR. 2002. NMR TG 5017/17 (NMR 21820/17) 30-SEP-2002.

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Record last edited

Sep 14 2012 5:35PM