England's Heritage Gateway

English Heritage and its partners have a Heritage Gateway providing integrated access to local and national heritage information resources.

Current national datasets include:

• Listed Buildings Online – the List of buildings of architectural or historic interest online
• Images of England – contemporary colour photographs of England’s Listed Buildings
• PastScape – information about England’s archaeological and architectural heritage
• ViewFinder – historic photographs of England
• NMR Excavation Index – a guide to the archaeological excavations and interventions carried out in England
• Parks & Gardens UK - information on historic parks, gardens and designed landscapes

Local Authority Historic Environment Records are also adding their data to the Heritage Gateway.  These currently include:

• Bedfordshire HER & Luton SMR
• Buckinghamshire HER 
• Cambridgeshire HER
• Canterbury UAD 
• Cheshire HER
• City of York HER
• Colchester UAD
• Cornwall and Scilly HER
• Dartmoor National Park HER
• Derbyshire HER
• Devon HER
• Dorset HER
• East Sussex HER
• Essex HER
• Exmoor National Park HER
• Herefordshire SMR
• Hertfordshire HER & St Albans UAD 
• Lake District HER 
• Leicestershire & Rutland HER 
• Lincolnshire HER
• Milton Keynes HER 
• Norfolk HER
• North Yorkshire HER
• Shropshire HER
• Somerset HER
• South Gloucestershire HER
• Southampton HER
• Staffordshire HER
• Suffolk SMR
• Tyne & Wear HER (SiteLines)
• Warwickshire HER
• Winchester HER & Winchester UAD  

I was interested to find listed WW2 era military facilities from around my home town of Great Yarmouth which I remember as somewhat ominous deserted structures in the late 1940s and early 1950s.