NHER 27536 (Monument record) - Site of World War Two road block

August 2005. Norfolk NMP.
A World War Two road block is visible as an extant structure on aerial photographs (S1) and (S2), centred at approximately TG 5308 0725. It is one of several structures of this type visible on photographs taken in 1940 and 1941. Their location and rather insubstantial appearance suggests that these are the barricades (constructed of herring barrels filled with concrete) which in response to the threat of invasion were erected across roads leading from Great Yarmouth seafront during the early years of the war (S3). Later aerial photographs indicate that in common with most of these barricades, the road block described here was removed by at least July 1944 (S4).

The southern end of the road block is obscured by shadow on the consulted aerial photographs and it is not possible to tell whether it extended all the way across the road.
S. Tremlett (NMP), 4 August 2005.