NHER 27630 (Monument record) - World War Two road block across New Road at Runham, Great Yarmouth

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Summary

A World War Two road block, comprising concrete blocks and probable sockets to take anti tank ground rails or pins, is visible as a group of structures and marks on the road surface on aerial photographs. It was located across the New Road at Runham, now the A47 and one of the major routes in and out of Great Yarmouth. There is no evidence on the consulted aerial photographs that it was closely associated with other defences, but other defensive sites lay nearby (for example, NHER 27631 110m to the northeast). The road was remodelled in the post-war period and there is no evidence on recent aerial photographs that any trace of the road block still survives at the site.

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

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February 2006. Norfolk NMP.
A World War Two road block is visible as structures and marks on the road surface on aerial photographs (S1)-(S2), centred at TG 5159 0882. The road block would have controlled access along New Road, now the A47, one of the major routes in and out of Great Yarmouth. It consisted of four concrete blocks (their shape is rather uncertain), two on each side of the road. Between these, linear marks are visible on the road surface, only the extent of which has been mapped. These probably mark lines of sockets in the road surface into which vertical anti tank rails or bent pins, for example, could have been slotted when necessary. The road block had been largely removed by 1945 (S3). This part of the road was subsequently remodelled and the site is now part of a verge. No surviving remains of the road block have been identified on recent aerial photographs of the site (S4).
S. Tremlett (NMP), 9 February 2006.

Associated Sources (4)

<S1> SNF56327 Vertical Aerial Photograph: RAF. 1944. RAF HLA/694 3108-9 26-MAR-1944 (NMR).
<S2> SNF61106 Vertical Aerial Photograph: RAF. 1944. RAF 106G/LA/21 4034-5 04-JUL-1944 (NMR).
<S3> SNF57482 Vertical Aerial Photograph: RAF. 1945. RAF 106G/UK/726 5035-6 26-AUG-1945 (NMR).
<S4> SNF61110 Vertical Aerial Photograph: Ordnance Survey. 1989. OS/89035 088-9 08-MAR-1989.

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Record last edited

Jun 7 2006 11:39AM