NHER 27540 (Monument record) - World War Two road blocks

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Summary

Two World War Two road blocks are visible as extant structures on aerial photographs taken in 1941. The structures, which lay across Apsley Road to the north and south of Trafalgar Road, are two of several rather insubstantial road blocks, 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 these examples, they appear to have been removed before the end of the war.

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

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August 2005. Norfolk NMP.
Two World War Two road blocks are visible as extant structures on aerial photographs (S1), cutting across Apsley Road at approximately TG 5304 0734 and TG 5304 0746. Several structures of this type are visible on photographs of Great Yarmouth 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 (S2). Later aerial photographs indicate that in common with most of these barricades, the roadblocks described here were removed before March 1944 (S3).
S. Tremlett (NMP), 3 August 2005.

Associated Sources (3)

<S1> SNF56875 Vertical Aerial Photograph: RAF. 1941. RAF 268F/BR172 23-4 10-FEB-1941 (NMR).
<S2> SNF56436 Publication: Tooke, C. and Scarles, D.. 1989. Great Yarmouth at War. p 7.
<S3> SNF56114 Vertical Aerial Photograph: RAF. 1944. RAF HLA/686 3208-9 02-MAR-1944 (NMR).