NHER 32658 (Monument record) - World War Two Type 24 pillbox northwest of Black Gate Farm, Great Yarmouth

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Summary

A World War Two Type 24 pillbox survives as an extant building on drained marshland to the west of Black Gate Farm, Great Yarmouth. It has been visited on the ground and is also visible as a structure on aerial photographs taken from 1944 onwards. On the earliest of these it was camouflaged as a shed. It forms part of a larger group of pillboxes and other World War Two defences (NHER 42513). Together with other, more isolated defences identified in the surrounding area (e.g. NHER 42514 100m to the east), these were presumably sited to protect the town in the event of an attack from its landward side.

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

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

February 2006. Norfolk NMP.
The Type 24 pillbox described above is visible as an extant building on aerial photographs (S3)-(S7), centred at TG 5140 0682. The earliest consulted aerial photographs on which the pillbox is visible were taken in 1944, e.g. (S3)-(S4). At this time, the pillbox appears to have been partially covered with a superstructure which, as with other pillboxes in the area, camouflaged it as a shed. The pillbox is also visible, free of its disguise, on more recent aerial photographs of the area, e.g. (S5)-(S7). Contrary to the sketch plan on the Norfolk Defensive Structures Survey record form (S1), it faces southwest, with its longer side (the rear) facing northeast. The pillbox is also depicted as a structure by modern Ordnance Survey 1:2500 mapping.
S. Tremlett (NMP), 14 February 2006.

Associated Sources (8)

--- SNF8804 Secondary File: Secondary File.
<S1> SNF57927 Recording Form: [various]. Norfolk Defensive Structures Survey Recording Form. Norfolk Defensive Structures Survey.
<S2> SNF59614 Photograph: Smith, R.. 1995. RDS 05.
<S3> SNF61204 Vertical Aerial Photograph: RAF. 1944. RAF HLA/694 3103-4 26-MAR-1944 (NMR).
<S4> SNF61205 Vertical Aerial Photograph: RAF. 1944. RAF 106G/LA/21 4039-40 04-JUL-1944 (NMR).
<S5> SNF61206 Vertical Aerial Photograph: RAF. 1946. RAF 106G/UK/1296 5214-5 26-MAR-1946 (NMR).
<S6> SNF61207 Vertical Aerial Photograph: Meridian Airmaps Limited. 1965. MAL 65029 211-2 11-APR-1965 (NMR).
<S7> SNF61208 Vertical Aerial Photograph: Ordnance Survey. 1989. OS/89035 083-4 18-MAR-1989.

Site and Feature Types and Periods (2)

Object Types (0)

Related NHER Records (1)

Geographical: NHER 42513 - Part of: World War Two anti invasion defences west of Black Gate Farm, Great Yarmouth (Monument)

Record last edited

Jul 26 2006 4:50PM