Record Details

NHER Number:30780
Type of record:Monument
Name:Home Guard Stores

Summary

Two Home Guard stores from World War Two.

Images

  • Docking Home Guard stores  © P. Hewitt
  • Docking Home Guard stores  © C. Kolonko
  • Docking Home Guard stores interior  © C. Kolonko

Location

Grid Reference:TF 7643 3683
Map Sheet:TF73NE
Parish:DOCKING, WEST NORFOLK, NORFOLK

Full description

Two 'Home Guard Structure' pillboxes.
Good condition.
See (S1).
E. Rose (NAU) 1994.

1999.
Buildings are still shown on (S2).
B. Cushion (NLA) 20 January 1999.

October 2012 Photographic survey
Photographic survey carried out of the Home Guard stores.
C. Kolonko (HES), 22 October 2012.

October 2012.
Two rare Home Guard stores for the storage of explosives and inflammables.These buildings survive in an excellent state of preservation. Amended the description from 'World War Two Pillboxes' to 'Home Guard stores'.
C. Kolonko (HES), 22 October 2012.

Monument Types

  • HOME GUARD STORE (World War Two - 1939 AD to 1945 AD)

Associated Finds - none

Protected Status

  • SHINE

Sources and further reading

---Secondary File: Secondary File.
<S1>Unpublished Document: 1995. Norfolk Defensive Structures Survey.
<S2>Map: Ordnance Survey. 1:2500.

Related records - none

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