NHER 27678 (Monument record) - Site of World War Two road block

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Summary

A World War Two road block is visible as a structure on aerial photographs taken in 1940 and 1941. It cut Dickens Avenue off from the seafront and was one of several, rather insubstantial road blocks which are visible on photographs of Great Yarmouth taken during the early years of the war. These are likely to have been the barricades, constructed from herring barrels filled with concrete, erected across every street leading from the seafront to the town. As with this example, they appear to have been removed some time before the end of the war.

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

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September 2005. Norfolk NMP.
A World War Two road block is visible as an extant structure on aerial photographs, (S1)-(S2), centred at approximately TG 5306 0628. It was one of several structures of this type visible on photographs taken in 1940 and 1941. Their location and rather insubstantial appearance suggests that these were 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 was removed by at least 1944, e.g. see (S4).
S. Tremlett (NMP), 27 September 2005.

Associated Sources (4)

<S1> SNF57807 Oblique Aerial Photograph: RAF. 1940. NMR TG 5306/9 (MSO 31029 2/BR172 4631) 04-SEP-1940.
<S2> SNF56170 Vertical Aerial Photograph: RAF. 1941. RAF 268F/BR172 (VA) 21-2 10-FEB-1941 (NMR).
<S3> SNF56436 Publication: Tooke, C. and Scarles, D.. 1989. Great Yarmouth at War. p 7.
<S4> SNF56131 Vertical Aerial Photograph: RAF. 1944. RAF HLA/686 3206-7 02-MAR-1944 (NMR).