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    Building up a list of potentially interesting documents in the Norfolk Records Office (for a future wet weather indoor explore?)..

    Norfolk County Council, Planning Department [C/P]
    Series of files categorising military defence works for maintenance or demolition following the 1939-45 war. C/P8/1/1 - C/P8/1/301
    From the online index this would appear to be a very large collection of reports, correspondence and memoranda relating to WW2 defences across Norfolk.
    In the same series:
    C/P8/3 - 33 1:2500 OS maps recording a survey of coastal defence works
    C/P8/4 - Survey of coastal defence works, Winterton to Caster. Roll made from OS sheets, 1/2500 scale, cut into strips and joined head to foot. Defences marked in red.
    C/P11 - 15 maps record the Second World War coastal defence works as they existed in 1950.

    link - C/P8/1
    link - C/P8/3
    link - C/P8/4
    link - C/P11

    Norwich City Council, City Engineer's Department [N/EN/1/1 - N/EN/11/1]
    From the online index this appears to be an extensive archive relating to air raid precautions, reports on progress in completring air raid precautions, instructions in the event of air raids, reports of bomb damage and casualties, reports on exercises "Bulldog", "Sampson", "Scorch" and "Norvic", etc.
    link


    Norfolk Constabulary [GB/NNAF/C181361 (Former ISAAR ref: GB/NNAF/O109114)]
    C/PO 1/60 1939-1946: Hunstanton police invasion instructions file, incl plans of beaches at Hunstanton and Titchwell.
    This sounds interesting, however the complete listing for C/PO only incudes C/PO/1/1 to C/PO/1/59 with no mention of C.PO/1/60.
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    Norfolk Record office - MC 158
    1914-1944, Records received by the Norfolk Record Office on 2 May 1985 [MS 21974], 5th Battalion of Norfolk Home Guard; Griffin, HH; Humfrey, T, Blake, Lieutenant Colonel, of Horsted Norfolk.
    War-time papers relating to the 5th Battalion of Norfolk Home Guard:
    • Emergency Committee papers, Norfolk District no. 10 MC 158/1/626 x 8 1914 - 1918
    • Fifth Battalion Norfolk Home Guard Orders MC 158/2/626 x 8 1940-1941
    • Fifth Battalion Norfolk Home Guard Orders MC 158/3/626 x 8 1941-1942
    • Fifth Battalion Norfolk Home Guard Orders MC 158/4/626 x 8 1942-1943
    • Fifth Battalion Norfolk Home Guard Orders MC 158/5/626 x 8 1943-1944
    • Typescript entitled 'Not all beer and skittles' MC 158/6/626 x 8 nd, being an account by H. H. Griffin of his experiences when serving in the 1914-1918 war

    Without reading the papers it's difficult to be certtain what is included, but it is to be hoped that the order papers might contain useful information on war-time defences manned by Home Guard personnel.

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    Records of interest held at The National Archives, Kew

    Air Ministry: Bomber Command: Registered Files AIR 14
    Photographic Interpretation Section, Beach targets: Norfolk, Suffolk, Essex, Kent and Sussex, 1941 Mar. The National Archives, Kew
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