NHER 32662 (Monument record) - World War Two Type 24 pillbox at New Cutt Farm, Great Yarmouth

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Summary

A World War Two Type 24 pillbox still survives as an extant structure amongst farm buildings at Great Yarmouth. It has been visited on the ground and is also visible on aerial photographs taken from 1944 onwards. On the earliest of these it was camouflaged as a shed. It is one of a cluster of World War Two defences identified in this area; others include a light anti aircraft battery 95m to the south (NHER 42521) and a large group of anti invasion defences 60m to the north (NHER 42513). The pillboxes and other ground defences were presumably sited to protect the town in the event of an attack on 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.
See (S1) and (S2).
D. Gurney (NLA) October 1996.

Defences survey N4-58.
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 5134 0663 to TG 5134 0665.

The World War Two Type 24 pillbox described above is visible as an extant building on aerial photographs (S3)-(S6). 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 (see (S5)). The pillbox is visible free of its disguise on more recent aerial photographs of the area, e.g. (S5)-(S6). It is also depicted as a structure by modern Ordnance Survey 1:2500 mapping.
S. Tremlett (NMP), 14 February 2006.

Associated Sources (7)

--- SNF8804 Secondary File: Secondary File.
<S1> SNF57927 Recording Form: [various]. Norfolk Defensive Structures Survey Recording Form. Norfolk Defensive Structures Survey.
<S2> SNF59619 Photograph: Smith, R.. 1995. RDS 67.
<S3> SNF61205 Vertical Aerial Photograph: RAF. 1944. RAF 106G/LA/21 4039-40 04-JUL-1944 (NMR).
<S4> SNF61206 Vertical Aerial Photograph: RAF. 1946. RAF 106G/UK/1296 5214-5 26-MAR-1946 (NMR).
<S5> SNF61207 Vertical Aerial Photograph: Meridian Airmaps Limited. 1965. MAL 65029 211-2 11-APR-1965 (NMR).
<S6> SNF61208 Vertical Aerial Photograph: Ordnance Survey. 1989. OS/89035 083-4 18-MAR-1989.

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Record last edited

Jul 27 2006 9:12AM