NHER 32656 (Monument record) - World War Two Type 24 pillbox west of Black Gate Farm, Great Yarmouth

Type 24 pill box in very good condition.
See (S1) and (S2).
D. Gurney (NLA) October 1996.

Defence survey N4-57.
See (S1).
D. Gurney (NLA) 6 February 2001.

February 2006. Norfolk NMP.
NMP mapping has led to the alteration of the central grid reference of the site from TG 5120 0674 to TG 5122 0673.

The Type 24 pillbox described above is visible as an extant building on aerial photographs (S3)-(S7). The earliest consulted aerial photographs on which the pillbox is visible were taken in 1944, e.g. (S3)-(S4). At this time, the pillbox was covered with a superstructure, camouflaging it as a shed (see (S5)). The pillbox is also visible, free of its disguise, on more recent aerial photographs of the area, e.g. (S6)-(S7). It faces west with its longer side (the rear) facing east. It is also clear that the polygonal structure stands on a concrete base which is similar in shape but slightly larger than the pillbox itself. The base has not been mapped by the NMP. The pillbox is also depicted as a structure by modern Ordnance Survey 1:2500 mapping.
S. Tremlett (NMP), 14 February 2006.