NHER 27426 (Monument record) - Site of World War Two road block

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Summary

A World War Two road block is visible as a structure on aerial photographs taken in 1940 and 1941. The structure, which cuts off Sandown Road from the seafront, is one of several, rather insubstantial road blocks (compare, for example, NHER 27422), which are visible on photographs of Great Yarmouth taken during the early years of the war. These are likely to be the barricades, constructed from herring barrels filled with concrete, erected across every street leading from the seafront to the town. As with this example, they appear to have been removed before the end of the war.

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Location

Map sheet	TG50NW
Civil Parish	GREAT YARMOUTH, GREAT YARMOUTH, NORFOLK

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June 2005. Norfolk NMP.
A World War Two roadblock is visible as an extant structure on aerial photographs (S1) and (S2), cutting across Sandown Road from TG 5312 0829 to TG 5312 0831. It is one of several structures of this type visible on photographs taken in 1940 and 1941. Their location and rather insubstantial appearance suggests that these are the barricades, constructed of herring barrels filled with concrete, which in response to the threat of invasion were erected across roads leading from Great Yarmouth seafront during the early years of the war, (S3). Later aerial photographs indicate that in common with most of these barricades, the roadblock described here was removed before March 1944 (S4).
S. Tremlett (NMP), 29 June 2005.

Associated Sources (4)

<S1> SNF56435 Oblique Aerial Photograph: RAF. 1940. NMR TG 5308/10 (MSO 31029 2/BR172 4636) 04-SEP-1940.
<S2> SNF56428 Vertical Aerial Photograph: RAF. 1941. RAF 268F/BR172 (VA) 25-6 10-FEB-1941 (NMR).
<S3> SNF56436 Publication: Tooke, C. and Scarles, D.. 1989. Great Yarmouth at War. p 7.
<S4> SNF56412 Vertical Aerial Photograph: RAF. 1944. RAF HLA/686 4200-1 02-MAR-1944 (NMR).