Record Details
| NHER Number: | 32677 |
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| Type of record: | Monument |
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| Name: | World War Two pillbox at North Denes Airfield, West Caister |
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Summary
A World War Two pillbox at North Denes Airfield is visible on aerial photographs. This is a standard hexagonal type 22 pillbox that formed part of a larger group of defences to the west of Caister Road, including slit trenches and barbed wire, which blocked the northern approach into Great Yarmouth (NHER 27519). A second type 22 pillbox survives at the southwest end of these defences (NHER 32678).
Images - none
Location
| Grid Reference: | TG 5211 1053 |
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| Map Sheet: | TG51SW |
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| Parish: | WEST CAISTER, GREAT YARMOUTH, NORFOLK |
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Full description
Type 22 pillbox.
Information from [1].
See (S1) with photograph and map in file.
D. Gurney (NLA) October 1996.
July 2005. Norfolk NMP.
An extant World War Two pillbox is visible on contemporary and later aerial photographs (S2) to (S4). The grid reference for this pillbox has been corrected from TG 5209 1055 to TG 5211 1054. This is a standard hexagonal type 22 pillbox. Aerial photographs dating to September 1940 (S5) show other defences in the vicinity of this pillbox (NHER 27519) and it is possible that it had also been constructed by that date. The earliest aerial photographs showing this pillbox date to March 1944 (S2). At that time it was camouflaged with a pitched roof (S2) to (S4). This pillbox formed part of a larger group of defences to the west of Caister Road, including slit trenches and barbed wire, which blocked the northern approach into Great Yarmouth (NHER 27519). A second type 22 pillbox survives at the southwest end of these defences (NHER 32678).
J. Albone (NMP), 27 July 2005
Monument Types
- PILLBOX (World War Two - 1939 AD to 1945 AD)
Associated Finds - none
Protected Status - none
Sources and further reading
| --- | Photograph: Kent, P.. 1995. KHJ 0-1. |
| --- | Secondary File: Secondary File. |
| <S1> | Recording Form: [various]. Norfolk Defensive Structures Survey Recording Form. Norfolk Defensive Structures Survey. |
| <S2> | Vertical Aerial Photograph: RAF. 1944. RAF HLA/686 3211 02-MAR-1944 (NMR). |
| <S3> | Vertical Aerial Photograph: RAF. 1945. RAF 106G/UK/726 5140-5141 26-AUG-1945 (NMR). |
| <S4> | Vertical Aerial Photograph: RAF. 1945. RAF 106G/UK/832 3182 23-SEP-1945 (NHER TG 5211B). |
| <S5> | Oblique Aerial Photograph: RAF. 1940. NMR TG 5310/2 (MSO 31029 2/BR172 4642) 04-SEP-1940. |
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