NHER 27567 (Monument record) - World War Two light anti aircraft battery at what is now the junction of Shuttleworth Close and Edison Way, Gapton Hall Industrial Estate, Bradwell

February 2006. Norfolk NMP.
A World War Two light anti aircraft (LAA) battery is visible as buildings, structures and earthworks on aerial photographs taken from 1944 onwards (S1)-(S4), centred at TG 5126 0557. It lay on the east side of the East Suffolk Railway line (NHER 13574) which has since been demolished. The main element of the site was a rectilinear, embanked and revetted gun emplacement, located at TG 5129 0557. A small structure visible within this on aerial photographs taken in March and April 1944 (S1)-(S2) was probably the gun; it had been removed by July 1944 (S3). Trackways (mapped as banks) connected the emplacement to huts (e.g. at TG 5124 0557 and TG 5124 0555) and other structures sited along the side of the railway. Some of the buildings may have been accommodation huts or similar, while others probably had an operational role. Embanked shafts or pits at TG 5125 0558 and TG 5128 0563 may have been air raid shelters. The function of various other structures and earthworks, including a concrete platform at TG 5126 0555, is not known. The site was dismantled at the end of the war and has since been built over. It is unlikely that any element of it now survives.
S. Tremlett (NMP), 15 February 2006.