NHER 32659 (Monument record) - World War Two Type 24 pillbox west of Pasteur Road

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Summary

A World War Two Type 24 pillbox still survived as an extant building in 2001, on land to the west of Pasteur Road. 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 was part of a cluster of pillboxes and other World War Two defences identified in this area, including three further pillboxes to its southeast (e.g. NHER 32654 245m away) and a possible road block 35m to its west (NHER 42514). All these anti invasion defences were presumably sited to protect the town in the event of an attack on its landward side, although the primary function of this pillbox, which faces northeast towards the town, may have been to protect the railway line (NHER 13581) which once ran 30m to its west. The current condition of the pillbox is not known.

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None recorded

Location

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

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Type 24 pill box, partially buried.
See (S1) and (S2).
D. Gurney (NLA) October 1996.

November 2001. Building Survey.
Pillbox surveyed and recorded by NAU.
See report (S3) for further details. This survey is also noted in (S8).
The archive associated with this work has been deposited with Norwich Castle Museum (NWHCM : 2018.264).
D. Gurney (NLA), 24 December 2001. Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 8 April 2015 and 15 April 2019.

February 2006. Norfolk NMP.
NMP mapping has led to the alteration of the central grid reference of the site from TG 515 068 to TG 5155 0685.

The World War Two Type 24 pillbox described above is visible as an extant building on aerial photographs (S4)-(S7). The earliest consulted aerial photographs on which the pillbox is visible were taken in 1944, e.g. (S4). At this time, the pillbox was covered with a superstructure, camouflaging it as a shed (see (S5)). The pillbox is visible, free of its disguise, on more recent aerial photographs of the area, e.g. (S6)-(S7). It is also depicted as a structure by modern Ordnance Survey 1:2500 mapping.
S. Tremlett (NMP), 14 February 2006.

Associated Sources (9)

--- SNF8804 Secondary File: Secondary File.
<S1> SNF57927 Recording Form: [various]. Norfolk Defensive Structures Survey Recording Form. Norfolk Defensive Structures Survey.
<S2> SNF59615 Photograph: Smith, R.. 1995. RDS 03.
<S3> SNF50164 Unpublished Contractor Report: Hobbs, B. P. 2001. Report on the structural survey of a pillbox on land between Pasteur Road and High Mill Road, Cobholm, Great Yarmouth. Norfolk Archaeological Unit. 645.
<S4> SNF61205 Vertical Aerial Photograph: RAF. 1944. RAF 106G/LA/21 4039-40 04-JUL-1944 (NMR).
<S5> SNF61210 Vertical Aerial Photograph: RAF. 1945. RAF 106G/UK/726 5028-9 26-AUG-1945 (NMR).
<S6> SNF61216 Vertical Aerial Photograph: Meridian Airmaps Limited. 1965. MAL 65029 025-6 11-APR-1965 (NMR).
<S7> SNF61208 Vertical Aerial Photograph: Ordnance Survey. 1989. OS/89035 083-4 18-MAR-1989.
<S8> SNF82150 Article in Serial: Gurney, D. and Penn, K. (eds). 2002. Excavations and Surveys in Norfolk, 2001. Norfolk Archaeology. Vol XLIV Pt I pp 162-177. p 167.

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Record last edited

Apr 15 2019 9:52PM