NHER 43309 (Monument record) - Site of probable World War Two civil defence building or shelter at Selby Place

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Summary

A hut or temporary building, probably related to civil defence and/or shelter during World War Two, is visible as an extant structure on 1940s aerial photographs. It is one of several huts of this type to have been identified at Great Yarmouth; compare, for example, NHER 27591 430m to the northeast. It was removed soon after the end of the war.

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None recorded

Location

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

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March 2006. Norfolk NMP.
A hut or temporary building dating to World War Two is visible on aerial photographs (S1)-(S3), centred at TG 5259 0655. The single-storey rectangular structure was presumably associated with the civil defence of Great Yarmouth, and may have acted as an air raid shelter, temporary accommodation, or food station, for example. A second structure, visible to its west on the photographs taken in July 1944, was probably a vehicle or similarly temporary feature, and consequently has not been mapped. It was removed before April 1946 (S4).
S. Tremlett (NMP), 13 March 2006.

Associated Sources (4)

<S1> SNF61836 Vertical Aerial Photograph: RAF. 1944. RAF HLA/698 3062-3 08-APR-1944 (NMR).
<S2> SNF57805 Vertical Aerial Photograph: RAF. 1944. RAF 106G/LA/21 3028-9 04-JUL-1944 (NMR).
<S3> SNF56183 Vertical Aerial Photograph: RAF. 1945. RAF 106G/UK/726 5164-5 26-AUG-1945 (NMR).
<S4> SNF56881 Vertical Aerial Photograph: RAF. 1946. RAF 106G/UK/1429 4002-3 16-APR-1946 (NMR).