NHER 32661 (Monument record) - World War Two pillbox at Yarmouth Business Park, Southtown

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Summary

A World War Two Type 24 pillbox survives on land at what is now Yarmouth Business Park, Southtown. It was visited on the ground in 1995, 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 one element in a line of anti invasion defences sited to protect the landward side of Great Yarmouth. Anti tank obstacles and possibly another pillbox continue the line 185m to the southeast (NHER 43304); a further pillbox stands 365m to the northwest (NHER 32652). Like several of the other defences identified in the area, the pillbox described here occupied a strategic position on a bank between a parallel arrangement of pre-existing drains.

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

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Pill box, type 24.
See (S1) and (S2).
D. Gurney (NLA) October 1996.

Defences survey N4-62.
See (S1).
D. Gurney, 6 February 2001.

March 2006. Norfolk NMP.
The World War Two Type 24 pillbox described above is visible as an extant building on aerial photographs (S3)-(S4). The earliest consulted aerial photographs on which the pillbox is visible were taken in 1944, e.g. (S3). At this time, the pillbox was covered with a superstructure, camouflaging it as a shed. It is visible on later aerial photographs free of its disguise, e.g. (S4). On these it is 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), 8 March 2006.

Associated Sources (5)

--- SNF8804 Secondary File: Secondary File.
<S1> SNF57927 Recording Form: [various]. Norfolk Defensive Structures Survey Recording Form. Norfolk Defensive Structures Survey.
<S2> SNF59617 Photograph: Smith, R.. 1995. RDS 66.
<S3> SNF61684 Vertical Aerial Photograph: RAF. 1944. RAF 106G/LA/21 4011-2 04-JUL-1944 (NMR).
<S4> SNF61685 Vertical Aerial Photograph: Meridian Airmaps Limited. 1965. MAL 65029 164-5 11-APR-1965 (NMR).

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Record last edited

Dec 7 2010 11:22AM