The WW2 Ammo Shed

This building looks like an overgrown ice cream hut, but it's really the last vestige of WW2 coastal defences left in Lowestoft.

The photo above is of war defences being dug on the Promenade.

This was an ammo and storage bunker for anti-aircraft guns that lined the coast, waiting for the Nazi invasion. The prom was covered in tank traps, gun emplacements and barbed wire. The Claremont Pier was half destroyed to prevent it from being used as a landing dock and all of the massive tourist hotels were used for troop billets.

There were spotting stations and lookouts posted along the prom and people walking by could see and hear the Allie's naval convoys being attacked by Nazi attack "Schnellboote", U-boats, and by air. When Lowestoft and other towns suffered from the Blitz and air attacks, the people living around Kensington Gardens could take a pair of binoculars and watch the war from out of their windows.

It was a dark and terrible time for the town, and if you know where to look, you can see the scars of massive bomb damage. The reminders of the two World Wars are all around Lowestoft, to include this little bunker, and which we keep here remind us of what our families endured to keep Britain safe.